Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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I can't see anything. When I try opening the attachment I end up with a 'You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action.'...
I think it is an alternative world where the European colonial empires decided to literally "take land from Africa".
Attaching filed has been a bit wonky lately and after you mentioned it I got the same error (well, my connection has been a bit unstable, maybe it was that) but it should be fixed by now.
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chankljp
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(Insert joke about the extra thin Africa, or anime and K-Pop not existing in this alternate world)
Yakko's World definitely belongs here, not least because (as far as I know) it's actually supposed to be educational. It's not that bad, all things considered: while it's weird mixing geographical and political entities it's not like it's a bad idea to point out where Tibet or Sumatra are, and what American 9-12 year old is going to need to point out Saint Kitts and Nevis or Dominica? Plus I think saying "the Spanish Sahara is gone" is a pretty clever way to deal with that particular problem area.
The original map is a pretty bad one, though. It's badly distorted and has a pretty terrible color scheme.
What happened to Antarctica? Did they use it to fill in the Caribbean ocean?
the original doesn't have that weird blob in the Caribbean (it's highlighted that way when it's named in the song but otherwise it's colored like the rest of the ocean), but most of Antarctica is still missing
Some of the weird shapes are excusable by way of this being a jigsaw puzzle, since the Austria or Slovakia pieces might break easily. But then you get to "Bosnia & Hergegovina," which is, uh…
EDIT: wow, I thought OTL's Treaty of Trianon was bad
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Mmh, Kalinigrad was annexed by Lithuania and Corsica became independent. Scotland by contrast appears to be on a diet as it is very slim.
Ah yes, the famous Crown Dependencies of Cuba and St. Dominic.