Great Britain has sunk into the european swamp. This is a political map
.Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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UK: "Sorry chaps, it was nice while it lasted, but we chose to do a Brexit."
EU: "Hey, listen to that, the Belgian peninsula says funny stuff."
UK: "What the- AAAH! It's got my Kent! Help! Help!"
EU: "Shh! Relax, it will be over soon."
Meanwhile in Denmark: "Dude, where's my Kopenhagen?"
EU: "Hey, listen to that, the Belgian peninsula says funny stuff."
UK: "What the- AAAH! It's got my Kent! Help! Help!"
EU: "Shh! Relax, it will be over soon."
Meanwhile in Denmark: "Dude, where's my Kopenhagen?"
Nobody has realized that Sicily, Sardinia, and the Peloponnese have all been deleted? You're all so heartless.
Only for them to turn around and see that the Russians and Turks jumped aboard. As well as the Black Sea. There is pointedly no Georgia, however
That is actually the North Jutlandic Island. You know. The thing normally at the top of mainland Denmark.
After the disappearance of the other Danish isles it could drift into the Baltic to finally fulfill its destiny: being a land bridge between Sweden and Germany.
Pic unrelated (although it admittedly also omits the Danish islands)
No it doesn't. See? They are right where Svalbard use to be. Yes, Legoland is going to be rather less appealing for tourists.
Isn't that bad, although the colors are almost the polar opposite to those normally used and the map makes minor colonies into independent states
Courtesy of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Let's see... Somalia - missing (but 'Somaliland' shown); no South Sudan; DRC merged into the Republic of the Congo; and I think Equatorial Guinea has vanished too...
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48421416
Let's see... Somalia - missing (but 'Somaliland' shown); no South Sudan; DRC merged into the Republic of the Congo; and I think Equatorial Guinea has vanished too...
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48421416
BTW - on that article, is a "retaliation" map, in which Ethiopia is merged with Somalia.
If you don't quite want truly horrible educational maps, then figures in scientific papers offer plenty of only mildly wrong alternatives (e.g. no South Sudan in maps post 2011 is a common slip up). Most of the time when reading scientific papers I'll see a minor mapp inaccuracy, chuckle, then move on. In this paper however I couldn't help noticing the unconventional choice of what borders to show;
So, we have a big space-filling Central Asia, re-unified Austria-Hungary, giant union of (mostly) francophone central Africa and someone definitely won the Chaco war, though you can't really tell who. Oh, and, apparently the North American great lakes are now buffer states between the US and Canada, and Azerbaijan has annexed Armenia (which will not end well).
I mean, I know its just meant to show countries with a coastline (and even then it isn't perfect - notice the omission of the DRC that does have an (admittedly small) coast), but they could at least show borders between landlocked states for clarity. Otherwise it just looks like a load of random space-filling empires have been created from nowhere. Not the worst map on the thread, but definitely bad.
Original paper here;
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768.full
So, we have a big space-filling Central Asia, re-unified Austria-Hungary, giant union of (mostly) francophone central Africa and someone definitely won the Chaco war, though you can't really tell who. Oh, and, apparently the North American great lakes are now buffer states between the US and Canada, and Azerbaijan has annexed Armenia (which will not end well).
I mean, I know its just meant to show countries with a coastline (and even then it isn't perfect - notice the omission of the DRC that does have an (admittedly small) coast), but they could at least show borders between landlocked states for clarity. Otherwise it just looks like a load of random space-filling empires have been created from nowhere. Not the worst map on the thread, but definitely bad.
Original paper here;
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768.full
While I know Bosnia does have a coastline, I am surprised they were not in the very lightest of yellows. Then again, the map is about plastic waste that is available. Perhaps this assumes Sarajevo trucks everything to the Dalmatian.