USA v Australia is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries have a *single state* bigger than France, Germany, and Spain combined.
Alaska is about 1.72m km². Western Australia is about 2.53m km². France, Germany and Spain together are about 1.41m km².
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I can understand the UK's various nations having their own teams for the World Cup. But what really gets me is that there's absolutely zero rhyme or reason to what happens for any particular sport:
Brazil v Morocco is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries are outside Europe, but share a land border with a European state.
Brazil borders France in the Amazon. Morocco borders Spain at Ceuta and Melilla.
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The drinking is the easy part. Finding a beer from Iran is the hard part.
Iran banned alcohol in 1979. Brewing it carries lashes. So the "Iranian beer" in this photo is Istak, a non-alcoholic malt drink that became the country's workaround and now sells hundreds of millions of bottles a year.
Saudi Arabia is fully dry. Their entry is Moussy, the non-alcoholic malt that dominates Gulf supermarkets precisely because real beer can't exist there.
Then come the import problems. Cape Verde's Strela and Haiti's Prestige barely leave their home markets. Curacao and Jordan qualified for the first time ever, which means almost no exporter ever bothered building a supply chain for their beer.
A 48-team World Cup quietly created the hardest beer scavenger hunt on Earth. Qualification expanded faster than beer distribution did.
The man found all 48 anyway.
🌍 Did you know that Oceania is the least-represented continent at the World Cup? That a trio of non-independent nations are taking part? Or that a double-landlocked country has qualified for the first time ever?
If you love football and maps, this thread is for you. Here are 8 fun geography facts about the 2026 tournament in North America.
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Di aussie bensin pelan pelan udah balik ke harga normal, lah di indo malah baru naik wkwk kalo di ausi jelas waktu itu alasannya karena perang, di indo karena apa?
*Russia banned from football for attacking Ukraine*
*USA, host of the World Cup, bombs Iran for over a month, kills its Supreme Leader and refuses to let the Iranian team stay even one night in the country*
FIFA President: