Return of Horrible Educational Maps

[The Plainsman]

Most of these are explainable as just attempts to make an OTL map with little effort into them, but the first one is just ridiculous. A really poor attempt at alternate history that somehow got mistaken for OTL? I can't think of any other explanation. And is that an Austria that includes none of actual Austria?

Maybe Italy annexed it (at least that's what it looks like) or maybe a rump-Hapsburg Austira.

Also, dat Romania.

 

[AcipenserSturio]

This is a standard map of the game of Diplomacy.
It's not an educational map, but whatever

 

[Analytical Engine]

I found these maps on this website.

This one isn't that bad - only Silesia is really off.

 

[naraht]

This one isn't that bad - only Silesia is really off.

And the island of Southern Greece

 

[AcipenserSturio]

Well, the Corinth Canal was constructed in 1880s, so the Peloponnese being disconnected is actually accurate

 

[minty2mayhem]

Has this been posted yet? Can someone tell me who thought this was a good idea?

 

[Baconheimer]

Reposted from the Map Shitpost Thread.

What is that thing next to Western Sahara? West Western Sahara?

 

[Thesaurus Rex]

Has this been posted yet? Can someone tell me who thought this was a good idea?

This is like a view of the Americas from an American's perspective.

 

[Doctor President]

Has this been posted yet? Can someone tell me who thought this was a good idea?

I get the impression that someone tried to combine maps that aren't on the same projection and/or scale.

 

[The Plainsman]

I get the impression that someone tried to combine maps that aren't on the same projection and/or scale.

Maybe, but that doesn't really explain why Central America looks so small.

 

[Doctor President]

Maybe, but that doesn't really explain why Central America looks so small.

Much different scales.

 

[Al Smith For Real]

Maybe, but that doesn't really explain why Central America looks so small.

Mexico =/= Central America

 

[Baconheimer]

This is like a view of the Americas from an American's perspective.

This is a more accurate map of that.

 

[Unmentionable Alligator]

Has this been posted yet? Can someone tell me who thought this was a good idea?

 

[Clandango]

This is a more accurate map of that.

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Why isn't Hawaii off Mexico?

 

[Lost Freeway]

Italy annexed Switzerlad, yeah!

How do you know it's not the other way around?

 

[Lost Freeway]

Wow. Whoever made this just failed at history. Or they believe that the North American Union is a real, existing thing...or the US just took all Mexico in 1848, and Cuba, Hispaniola, Bermuda, and the Bahamas were annexed into the US to this day, Australia is a divided continent, Norway-Sweden still exists, Finland's still a part of Russia, France still holds the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Northern Italy, Germany's even smaller but holds the Prussian Gold Coast, a giant German African colony, Tanganyika is still Prussian, France has Cameroon and CAR, the Guyanas are part of Gran Colombia...wow. I can't even keep going. It kind of hurts.

http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/A_World_of_Difference

 

[Lost Freeway]

http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Finland_Superpower

Obiously written by a Finnish nationalist, from humble beginnings in the 17th century, Finland grows to become a utopian superpower with electric cars galore. Randomly conquered and annexed Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Karelia, Kola Peninsula, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Italy without Sicily for some random reason. Despite a PoD in the 17th century, the timeline still contains the Soviet Union, Nazism, the moon landings in the 1960s, John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe. Despite glaring inaccuracies, Finland is somehow the world's dominant economic and military superpower, and despite having all that conquered territory whose inhabitants outnumber quite heavily actual Finnish people, has no signs of major separatist conflict.

There are probably worse timelines, but this is an example of everything wrong with althistory.wikia.com.

I really love this bit.

The largest minority language and the second official language is Swedish spoken by 5.9 percent of the population. Other minority languages are italian (28.9 percent), Polish (12.8 percent), Russian (2.8 percent), Estonian (0.3 percent),

Sounds like the author slept through math class.

 

[Lost Freeway]

According to a video on a Norwegian newspaper site I just watched, Britain is a peninsula.

That's obviously a map from the last ice age.

 

[Thesaurus Rex]

That's obviously a map from the last ice age.

The Mediterranean and the Hudson have been sealed off, but no Sundaland or Beringia? Not even an accurate ice age map!