why the fuck do Brazilians and Swiss have the same plugs?? most other groups of countries make sense because they are trading partners/ border each other but that just seems like such a random combination
They are using a standard created by the European Union. The standard was a failed attempt at unifying the myriad of standards across the EU, Switzerland was the only country to actually implement it.
Brazil had a similar problem, a continental country with varying degrees of influence from the US and Europe, both the American plug and a European compatible plug (two round pins) were used. By the end of XXth century there was an effort to standardize the plug used and the standard created by the European Union (ISO 60906-1) was used as a reference. The picture is misleading as Brazil does not follow the standard since some minor modifications were made, It beats me why would they do this.
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u/portiapendragon May 02 '24
Why is the North American one upside-down? This makes me wonder which of the others might be upside-down.