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Mercator on a globe?
So, we’ve got some falling sea levels, random land bridges, sunken Madagascar, Balto-Finnic and Viking wank, and the Sahul shelf has rotated in a poor attempt by New Guinea to cover up the murder of New Zealand. Did I miss anything of similar wackiness?
Moscow has been relocated to the north coast of the Caspian Sea?So, we’ve got some falling sea levels, random land bridges, sunken Madagascar, Balto-Finnic and Viking wank, and the Sahul shelf has rotated in a poor attempt by New Guinea to cover up the murder of New Zealand. Did I miss anything of similar wackiness?
'innovative' spellings are not the only thing wrong, there is a second Turkey in Southeast-Asia and a second 'Thaoieland' to the north of Korea...snip
Moscow has been relocated to the north coast of the Caspian Sea?
'innovative' spellings are not the only thing wrong, there is a second Turkey in Southeast-Asia and a second 'Thaoieland' to the north of Korea...
Also some countries like the Benelux, Portugal, Uru- and Paraguay, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh are missing and South Korea has renamed itself after its capital.
My favourites: Bunkinea Faso, Bunkin, Yemmaenn, Southeast Asian Turkey, and PhluppinesWith the thumbnail you can already see that it is a world map constructed with the names of the nations.
If you dare enlarge the thumbnail you will see some nations with rather... 'innovative' spellings. For example the island Nation north of France? The Uriteo Kongdom, of course.
Enlarge thumbnail at your own risk. You have been warned.
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Canada! Canada! So great they named it <recount> 17 times! And all of them on territory it actually owns! Suck it up, China!
(And further proof that some people just shouldn't be allowed unsupervised access to cutting tools, printers or map projections.)
And right above Best Oysters and Below Sweetest Old Ladies we see the Most Modest People in the World. Seriously though, Carpet Baggers? Was this map blanket made by escaped Confederates? I see they also listed all dangerous weather patterns wrapping around the coast of the North Pacific, including... Hmmm. Never knew the Aleutians had so many tornadoes.To soothe the eyes from too much horrible maps have one that almost wouldn't belong in this thread were it not for a small but significant blunder.
You get lots of information about the Kunekune Pig and its habitat (Education, yay!) and both the map and the pseudo-globe are reasonably detailed and correct:
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However, for some reason, both the map and the globe fail to actually show where that piggy comes from.
And if you now happen to suffer from some form of New Zealand deficiency let me help you comepensate it with yet another webfind:
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First rule of Canada Club: You only talk about Canada.
Unrelated, some textbook example found on reddit:
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Poland's eastern border is its pre-WWII border, yet its western border is from after WWII.Unrelated, some textbook example found on reddit:
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Mercator on a globe?