Ugliest Country?

[Fifty]

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What do you think is the ugliest country in terms of natural beauty?

By natural beauty I mean geographical landscape. The only forms of life that are to be included are those from kingdoms plantae (or maybe fungi if there's some stupid fungi out there that is plentiful enough to figure into the country's general beauty).

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[plarq]

Libya
Tenchar

 

[Ulyaoth]

Any desert place.

 

[loinburger]

Vatican City

 

[Birdjaguar]

Any desert place.

Having lived in the desert for the last 19 years I would beg to differ with you.

Since natural beauty is the criteria for this endeavor I guess I would go with some place like the Netherlands where there is very little natural beauty remaining. San Marino and the Vatican would also fall into the group of places where natural beauty has been entirely replaced by man-made items.

 

[North King]

San Marino and the Vatican would also fall into the group of places where natural beauty has been entirely replaced by man-made items.

San Marino doesn't look too bad.

 

[Perfection]

Having lived in the desert for the last 19 years I would beg to differ with you.

Since natural beauty is the criteria for this endeavor I guess I would go with some place like the Netherlands where there is very little natural beauty remaining. San Marino and the Vatican would also fall into the group of places where natural beauty has been entirely replaced by man-made items.

The absence of natural beauty need not qualify the nation for said award as ugliest, for one could describe something as worse then nonexistent. For example, one could argue it is better to have natural beauty subsumed into urbanism then to have to say have it into the pitted lunar landscape that is Nauru

I would argue that it's ugly landscape is worse then having no landscape.

 

[plarq]

Wow, big bald head.

 

[Tee Kay]

Yeah, Nauru pretty much ran away with the grand prize.

 

[sonorakitch]

Libya is actually gorgeous in parts.

I would have to say the Vatican. It's really hard not to find natural beauty anywhere else...even in a place like Equatorial Guinea and Somalia.

~Chris

 

[illram]

The English countryside. Booooooring.

Scotland, Wales and Cornwall excluded; they are beautiful.

 

[North King]

The absence of natural beauty need not qualify the nation for said award as ugliest, for one could describe something as worse then nonexistent. For example, one could argue it is better to have natural beauty subsumed into urbanism then to have to say have it into the pitted lunar landscape that is Nauru

I would argue that it's ugly landscape is worse then having no landscape.

Right, that "lunar landscape" that was entirely created by phosphate mining. Sure counts as natural.

 

[Perfection]

Right, that "lunar landscape" that was entirely created by phosphate mining. Sure counts as natural.

I presume Fifty means natural in the sense of discounting urban beauty/ugliness, not in excluding man's effects on the landscape itself. For example a forest that was planted may still count as natural beauty.

You may argue that this is a slightly nonstandard usage and ask why I should choose such an interpretation of Fifty's post. I will not deny that this use could be characterized as nonstandard and under normal conditions it is appropriate to question a nonstandard interpretation. However in this case I can actually detect Fifty's usage in all its nuances because we are soulmates.

 

[CaptainF]

Oregon!

What a cesspool...

Nah really. Ugliest country? I dunno. Haven't been to many other countries but there are lots of ugly parts of the USA...mostly in the midwest and to the east.

 

[Arwon]

It's gotta be Nauru, I'm pretty sure there aint another country with 90% of its surface area devastated by economic exploitation.

 

[REDY]

I would guess that Dutch countryside without man-made things would look most boring in Europe. Many Dutch are travelling to abroad for nature beauty.

 

[Truronian]

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.

 

[Mad Man]

Sealand

 

[Algeroth]

I would have to say the Vatican. It's really hard not to find natural beauty anywhere else...even in a place like Equatorial Guinea and Somalia.

~Chris

Well, I wouldn't say that Vatican garden are so ugly....

 

[Mad Man]

Well, I wouldn't say that Vatican garden are so ugly....

Yes but its not natural.