Ugliest Country?

[Winner]

This thread can't possibly produce any useful output. Perception of beauty is totally subjective, so what some people think is beautiful (mountain ranges, vast forests) is ugly to others. And then, very few countries are uniform in terms of natural landscapes, biomes, elevation etc.

Personally, I don't really find much to like on flat, dusty and arid tropical and subtropical areas - so countries in Sahel, Somalia, parts of Australia and Southern Africa don't really appeal to me. But as I said, practically no larger country is uniform.

 

[Arwon]

Yeah true. But Nauru. Seriously. Post-modernism, relativism and subjectivity are fine... but a strip-mined limestone wasteland you can't even walk over comfortably is objectively awful.

 

[RedRalph]

From what I've seen of Mongolia on TV its a staggeringly ugly place (now go ahead and post a picture of some spot in Mongolia that will bring tears to me eyes with its beauty)

 

[Tee Kay]

Mongolia

 

[trader/warrior]

Denmark, duh. No mountains or fjords at all.

 

[Tee Kay]

I'd echo the calls of Nauru, but when you're that small it doesn't take long for phosphorus mining to destroy your landscape.

If excluding small countries, I'd say maybe Chad... though only because I can't find a cool picture from it on it's Geography of Chad wiki page.

How about these?

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I kinda like deserts.

 

[Kerozine]

Iceland.

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Pics plz.

 

[Yeekim]

Stupid OP.

Nature is never ugly.

 

[Fifty]

Perception of beauty is totally subjective

Perception of beauty may be subjective but beauty itself is objective (and no amount of pathetically ill-reasoned freshman skepticism will change that)

 

[RedRalph]

Perception of beauty may be subjective but beauty itself is objective (and no amount of pathetically ill-reasoned freshman skepticism will change that)

So, it this a philisophical pissing contest or a thread about which countries you consider beautiful? Cause, you know, if you want to have a philisophical pissing contest, dont try and dress it up as something else, its just boring.

 

[Fifty]

So, it this a philisophical pissing contest or a thread about which countries you consider beautiful? Cause, you know, if you want to have a philisophical pissing contest, dont try and dress it up as something else, its just boring.

Nope, I was just askin' a queshun about what country ya'll thought was ugly.

Winner and Yeekim are the only people who have managed to completely miss the point. (Is anyone surprised?)

Anyways, back to postin pics and whatnot!

 

[RedRalph]

Nope, I was just askin' a queshun about what country ya'll thought was ugly.

Winner and Yeekim are the only people who have managed to completely miss the point. (Is anyone surprised?)

Anyways, back to postin pics and whatnot!

I was hoping you would ask me for a phlipsophical pissing contest (pissisophical), so I could pretend I hand't see your response and slink out of the thread...

 

[Yeekim]

Nope, I was just askin' a queshun about what country ya'll thought was ugly.

Winner and Yeekim are the only people who have managed to completely miss the point. (Is anyone surprised?)

Anyways, back to postin pics and whatnot!

And that point might be...?
I am saying there is no such thing as "ugly country", if man-created destruction/pollution is to be discounted - something which is quite convincingly demonstrated by lack of pictures of "ugly countries" in this thread so far.

If we are not to discount these effects, then we have a clear winner - Nauru.

 

[Leifmk]

Yah, Nauru, seriously.

Most countries contain some variation, usually spread across different types of terrain, or at least they have more than one location which allows variation over a given theme, so it's not all equally ugly. Nauru is small enough to be just one location, and that location is horribly messed up.

 

[Rossiya]

The English countryside. Booooooring.

Scotland, Wales and Cornwall excluded; they are beautiful.

English countryside is practically identical to Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, and Cornwall is part of England, and England is practically identical to New England, British North America.

*braces himself for the rest of the anti-Britain parade*

 

[Cutlass]

English countryside is practically identical to Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, and Cornwall is part of England, and England is practically identical to New England, British North America.

*braces himself for the rest of the anti-Britain parade*

I'd have a real hard time imagining that. Since I've never seen a picture of England that looks in any way like New England.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

English countryside is practically identical to Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, and Cornwall is part of England, and England is practically identical to New England, British North America.

From what I understand about climate I would say it's more like British Columbia, but the problem with England is that because of it's long history most of it is now just fields with scattered towns and villages, but I guess there are still some remnants of wilderness in the national parks. I know in Wales they have more things like mountains and forests, and I guess the same in Scotland, but it's probably because they also have a lot less people.

 

[Mise]

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q...ent=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q...ent=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

spot the difference

 

[RedRalph]

Wait a minute - there's a New England???

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

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San Marino doesn't look too bad.

How much of that is actually Italy?