{"id":8170,"date":"2015-01-04T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/?p=8170"},"modified":"2024-08-09T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T10:49:12","slug":"baltic-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/baltic-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltic states"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8175\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/en\/Baltic_states\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8175\" src=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Baltic_states_regions_map-216x300.png\" alt=\"Map of the Baltic states\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Baltic_states_regions_map-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Baltic_states_regions_map-736x1024.png 736w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Baltic_states_regions_map-108x150.png 108w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Baltic_states_regions_map.png 1654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baltic states (source: Wikitravel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How to remember the geographical positions of the Baltic states <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Estonia\">Estonia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latvia\">Latvia<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithuania\">Lithuania<\/a>, and their respective capitals <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tallin\">Tallin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riga\">Riga<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vilnius\">Vilnius<\/a>? Is there a hidden order in this apparent disorder? Well, I realized naively, by accident, that these countries are ordered alphabetically from north to south, and that this is also the same for the capitals provided this time that we remove the first letter! This trick works in English, in French (Estonie, Lettonie, Lituanie), and in several other languages, but does not work for instance in Polish (Estoni\u0105, \u0141otwa, Litwa).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8182\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rigas-panorama-labota-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8182\" src=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rigas-panorama-labota-11-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Riga\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rigas-panorama-labota-11-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rigas-panorama-labota-11-1024x608.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rigas-panorama-labota-11-150x89.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to remember the geographical positions of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and their respective capitals Tallin, Riga, and Vilnius? 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