Listenbourg
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Listenbourg is a fictional country created as the subject of an internet meme in October 2022, which depicts it as an extension of the Iberian Peninsula. French Twitter user Gaspard Hoelscher shared a doctored map of Europe with a red arrow pointing to the outline of a pasted country adjacent to Portugal and Spain, and joked that Americans would not be able to name the country.
Key facts
- Fictional location.name
- Listenbourg
- Fictional location.based_on
- A joke to test the stereotype of Americans having a lack of knowledge of geography
- Fictional location.image
- File:Europe with and without Listenbourg fictional country.svg
- Fictional location.caption
- Europe with (left) and without (right) Listenbourg
- Fictional location.creator
- Gaspard Hoelscher
- Fictional location.type
- Fictional country
- Fictional location.located_in
- Iberian Peninsula, Europe
- Fictional location.locations
- Lurenberg (capital) Flußerde, Kusterde, Mitteland, Adrias, Caséière (regions) Osatri (town)
- Fictional location.characters
- Gaspardo (president)
- Fictional location.genre
- Humorous internet meme
- Fictional location.population
- 59,000,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- internet meme
- Named after
- Luxembourg
- Official name
- Listenbourg
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- German
- Body of water
- North Atlantic Ocean
- Form of government
- republic
- Shares border with
- Spain
- Country of origin
- France
- Location
- Iberian Peninsula
- Image
- Europe with and without Listenbourg fictional country.svg
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- inception
- 2022-10-30
- hashtag
- ListenbourgGP
- native label
- Listenbourg
- Commons category
- Listenbourg
- social media followers
- 40342
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Viral spread
- Responses
- See also
- References
Listenbourg is a fictional country created as the subject of an internet meme in October 2022, which depicts it as an extension of the Iberian Peninsula. French Twitter user Gaspard Hoelscher shared a doctored map of Europe with a red arrow pointing to the outline of a pasted country adjacent to Portugal and Spain, and joked that Americans would not be able to name the country.
The nonexistent nation went viral on social networks, with users expanding on the fictional history of the country and some major brands, national politicians, and official organisations playing along with the joke.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Listenbourg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.