I mean an Urban metropolitan area in it's own right - bigger than the boundaries of any cities within it.
Not really, a metropolitan area is bigger than a city (In some cases having county status) - The West Midlands for example.
Netherlands still there last time I looked mate (Holland is in fact a region of the Netherlands that we have adopted as alternative name for it) This is a not a trick question, but its not easy. I had never heard of this place until I read a great book on strange European history a few months ago.
I know the answer to this, but had to google it. You either know the answer to this type of question or you don't. I didnt. Not possible to guess it or put 2 and 2 together. Carpatho-Ukraine I believe it to be.
Thats it Grinners. Highly recommend the book Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies where I learned about this place, also called Rusyn. A province of Czechoslovakia, it was forced to declare independence when Czechoslovakia broke up with the Nazi occupation of Bohemia (modern Czech Republic). Actually asked Germany for protection because it feared Russian take over, but was occupied by the Hungarians the next day, and that was that. Incorporated into the USSR at the end of the war. On the right tracks Houston, but your turn Grinners.
Presumably part of Ukraine now, which considering it's anthem and it's name was where it wanted to be all along??!!
