The NextGen OTL Worlda Series
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Because the East is so sparsely populated that an East-West divide isn't logical. It's North-South
But in all seriousness, South Yemen makes sense since 1) the region is to the south of the Yemeni core territory, especially the rather populous city of Aden, and 2) prior names that were used for that area during British colonial rule, namely the Aden Protectorate and the Federation/Protectorate of South Arabia are both painfully generic.
South Yemen still has a small separatist movement, with the Southern Transitional Council currently controlling the port of Aden and the Socotra Islands (at least they did in late 2021, idk if that is still the case).
Alright, I edited my recent update and added the Spanish counties (not formalized until the 1978 Constitution but still de-facto used prior), I traced the provinces created in Portugal in 1936 by the Estado Novo, I edited in the nightmare that is the French departments on WorldA, and I deleted what I had for the United Kingdom because apparently it was in administrative hell before they started to sort it out in the 1970s and I cannot understand it. Turkey is the only one I am not sure about - I took the provinces from a 2018 WorldA map but I can’t find anything to indicate that their administrative divisions were adjusted in any major way since the founding of their Republic so.. it works? Please let me know any other errors before I continue, I’ll try to double and triple check from here on out.
New provinces were created since the foundation of the Turkish Republic, yes. Some provinces might have been abolished/absorbed as well.
I have found sources (including a pdf by the Turkish Ministry of Interior that lists the foundation dates of the Provinces.
Relevant information for 1968 is that these provinces were created after that date:
Bayburt, Karaman, Kırıkkale, Aksaray, Batman, Şırnak, Bartın, Iğdır Ardahan, Karabük, Kilis, Yalova, Osmaniye and Düzce
Prior to that they were parts of one of their neighboring provinces.
That should be correct. Provinces were the same from 57 to 89.
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Excellent, thank you a ton for this. I shall fix the subdivisions as soon as possible.
Some progress including most of the Middle East, all of Central Asia, and some of South Asia. Turkish subdivisions have been redone as per @Gokbay’s map. Korean subdivisions have been added on both sides of the DMZ as well as the Japanese prefectures. Hope that most of the provincial borders I added should be accurate. In some cases they required some digging. I found Jordan’s in a 1960 atlas, I found pre-revolutionary Persia in an old Persian map on Twitter, the Iraqi ones came from a Republican rug with the map of the country embroidered on (lmao), North Korea’s came from some Cold War era Korean maps, etc. Eyeballing Afghanistan’s divisions was a little rough but it should suffice for the time being.
And if anyone can find the seven province setup that the Saudi Kingdom used prior to the 1992 administrative reforms, I would be grateful because I’m not finding anything.
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I did find this one when searching, but this one seems to have the modern thirteen province layout. Wikipedia makes mention of a pre ‘92 setup that only had about seven provinces. Can’t seem to find a good map of that anywhere though.
I found this map in a paper from 1995:
IDK if you've already found this, or if this is a map of the Saudi Regions, as they were at the time (I am aware that the provinces are grouped into regions even today).
Chongqing should be part of Sichuan.
EDIT: Sorry, I see that you fixed this already.
Considering how tiny Hans Island is, that wouldn't be visible except under the really big maps.
Hello, I wanted to know if there was a "blank map" with the coastline of a limited glacier age (which could come from a nuclear winter for example)?
With a drop in sea level between 10 and 50m.
A bit like this map of the rising waters.
Thank you in advance.
With a drop in sea level between 10 and 50m.
A bit like this map of the rising waters.
Thank you in advance.
Now, personally I think that the Chinese ARs should just be the colour of the main country since in reality they have no more autonomy than the provinces do.
