Considering Ghandi worked in South Africa and they had a modest populations of Indians there, you would think they would know about it. I suspect this show might be some alternate history sort of thing. Best excuse.
Return of Horrible Educational Maps
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Apparently the British managed to keep a lot more of the 13 colonies and got Brazil in exchange for South Africa and New Zealand.
On the other hand they also kept Ireland, so I don’t think it counts as a net gain.
Nice propaganda about what parts of China are in Japanese hands as well, especially if it's from 1936.
Basically everything except Tibet and parts of Xinjiang and Yunan.
Crazy Boris
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Someone needs to tell these people Mercator is specifically designed to not be a sphere
According to reddit this map is on the wall of a local coffee shop called "Greenwich"
Well, for being obviously hand-painted one can expect some lack of detail. Then I noticed some countries were labeled.
After that I realized that the vertical orange line that goes straight through Scandinavia and Central Europe is supposed to be the Greenwich Meridian (both at the top and the bottom of that line a small 0° has been written)
Well, for being obviously hand-painted one can expect some lack of detail. Then I noticed some countries were labeled.
After that I realized that the vertical orange line that goes straight through Scandinavia and Central Europe is supposed to be the Greenwich Meridian (both at the top and the bottom of that line a small 0° has been written)
Wow, essentially every important detail (the locations where they most likely get their coffee, and the location of Greenwhich Meridian) is incorrect.
This is somehow even worse then wonky coastlines
BritishThongs
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Also I'm not surprised why they control like half of Africa, plus New England (North-East USA)
Actually it looks like the labels are about right (for example, Tokyo is labelled at longitude 139°E which is correct, and Murmansk is labelled just north of the Arctic Circle, which is also correct). It seems that the map itself has been shrunk, with its top-right corner dragged too far west and south.
Mmh, I did not know the Persian Gulf went further north then the Mediterranean Sea. Also India appears to have shrunk, whilst Italy's boot is standing on Tunisia.