Opal Earth — MEGATHREAD

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A world is more than its borders. Meet Opal Earth.

Explore nations through the people who live in them, the visitors passing through and the places that give them their unique landscape and identity.

Opal Earth brings together nations, their profiles, their visitor experiences, local notice boards and conversations — from practical travel questions to the wonderfully unexpected, and often funny things people leave in a comment section.

Follow roads and traffic conditions, explore flight connections, check border-crossing information and discover landmarks with stories of their own. Move from a view of the globe into city streets, with terrain, satellite imagery and 3D buildings bringing places into focus.

Above the world, track satellites, launch sites and spacecraft missions. Visit York (ISS), meet its crew and read messages of remembrance, encouragement and hope from the people watching below.

It’s a growing picture of our world: its infrastructure, its history and its everyday humanity.

To governments around the globe: help us represent your nation.

We invite you to contribute:

• Your capital’s official name and exact location—coordinates or a clearly marked map point.
• Monuments and landmarks you want people to discover, with their locations, history and significance.
• Major cities and infrastructure, including airports, transport hubs, government buildings and scientific facilities.
• National information and corrections, from currencies and entry requirements to official place names.

Please include reference images and supporting material where available. For landmarks, tell us what the place looks like, what it does and why it matters.

Residents, visitors and organizations are welcome to suggest places and improvements too. Local knowledge helps make a map worth exploring.

Explore what’s currently here. Help us show what’s missing. Let’s regain the control of our planet, one landmark at a time.

— Opal

Nordstjerne

Nordstjerne Geographical Information

Capital: Stockholm, located within the same boundaries as Stockholm, Sweden

Capitol Building: The Jernean Parliament Building, similar in design to Hungary’s capitol building and located on the same island as the Swedish Parliament.

Major Cities: All are within their IRL respective boundaries. These are among the only cities that retained their old names.

Stockholm, Sweden
Uppsala, Sweden
Copenhagen, Denmark
Århus, Denmark
Oslo, Norway
Hamburg, Germany
Szczecin, Poland

Key Landmarks:

Stockholm Clocktower, Helgeandsholmen Island
Atomkraten Nuclear Plant, Oslo

Nation Information and Corrections:

The Jernean nation space program is known as the Nordstjerne National Aeronautical Organization (NNAO).
The national description has been updated to reflect recent changes.
Everything else looks good.

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Nordstjerne The items and info have been added in the map. Thanks for using Opal Earth.