Is the Mediterranean seen as a duck in your country?

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1. Boot shaped Italy yes, duck shaped Mediterranean, rather no, atleast never heard of it

2. Never heard of that but I have just looked at a map and indeed it has the shape of some bird, especially the head and the wings

3. Italy shaped like a boot, sure. Mediterranean as a duck though? Never heard of it before.

4. Never heard of the Med shaped as a duck, neither in Greece nor in the US, nor when I lived in France.

5. > Mediterranean is seen as duck shaped here in America.

   That’s a new one on me, and I’m pretty sure most Italians feel the same. The only other name by which the Mediterranean sea has ever been known over here is *mare nostrum* (“our sea”), used by the Romans and later revived by fascists.

   The Italian peninsula being shaped like a boot is common knowledge, as you can imagine.

6. I think I’ve heard it before from some Americans, however it’s not a common expression in Denmark.

7. It’s the first time I hear about the mediterranean being compared to a duck.

8. As an American, I have to disagree. It’s not seen as a duck. That’s just you.

9. I’m American. Never heard of the duck thing before. Boot, yes.

10. Never heard someone compare it to a duck, but looking at it now it’s clearly a seadragon (as in the seahorse relative, not the mythological beast).

11. I never heard about the duck but my geography teacher told as that Croatia looks like a pair of pants on the map. Not sure if it really look similar but I still remember it and use it

12. Italy shaped like a boot – yes. But I have never heard that mediteranean is shaped like a duck.

    By the way, my country (Slovenia) is said to be shaped like a chicken.

13. Yes, because I am on reddit.

    But I think the american continent is rather more duck shaped like in this [link](https://imgur.com/AKmAdAM)

14. It’s not seen as having the shape of anything in particular.

15. Boot shaped Italy, fish shaped Romania, dragon shaped Croatia and Iceland, Siren shaped Baltic Sea.

    Never heard about Mediterranean being seen as a duck.

    Bonus: dick & balls shaped Sweden+Finland (sorry guys)

16. I have never heard of that, but I can see now how you might think that.

17. The duck shaped duck is the first time I hear it, the iberian peninsulanis called “piel de toro” ([bull skin](https://losmitosdeltoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/toro_tint_negre14.jpg) at least here in Spain)

18. No, not a all, sorry. No analogy at all with the Mediterranean sea.

    I’m looking at a picture of it and find it difficult to see a duck it there. Do you have any drawing of the duck in it?

19. I don’t wanna know what kind of demented looking ducks the US has if the Med looks like one to you lot…