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Number 1 - Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 109 #EiffelTowers, 36.7m people, 2.97 per million inhabitants
2 - Estonia 🇪🇪 - 2 Towers, 1.3m people, 1.54 per million
3 - Lithuania 🇱🇹 - 4 Towers, 2.7m people, 1.48 per million
4 - Macau 🇲🇴 - 1 Tower, 0.7m people, 1.43 per million
5 - Armenia 🇦🇲 - 3 Towers, 2.8m people, 1.07 per million
@timrichards Yes. Although there are a good few in the occupied parts too. And a reasonable number in Russia as well. This symbol of deluxe western modernity has appeal somehow. (I’ll eventually write more on the motivation of people to build these towers)
@timrichards@jon Or alternatively, a way of saying that there is no need to go to the decadent West, as socialism can provide everything including its iconic monuments. Or perhaps they were commissioned to set the mood for driving the Soviet people’s champagne that Stalin ordered the development of.
@acb@timrichards No, in Russia too they're pretty much all from the 1990s or later as well. And one in the middle of Siberia somewhere was demolished by the city council because France was backing Ukraine in the war.
@acb@timrichards Although I admit why Iran then allowed a massive Eiffel Tower at Kish is then, for these sorts of reasons, rather odd. But this does not always make sense.
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