Because the East is so sparsely populated that an East-West divide isn't logical. It's North-SouthHow does that make sense?
How does that make sense?
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?
Excellent, thank you a ton for this. I shall fix the subdivisions as soon as possible.New provinces were created since the foundation of the Turkish Republic, yes. Some provinces might have been abolished/absorbed as well.
Would this suffice?View attachment 749530
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.
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.Would this suffice?
I found this map in a paper from 1995: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.
Well, based on all the research I did, this is the closest I could find:View attachment 749530
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.
Chongqing should be part of Sichuan.View attachment 749232
Thread has been a little slow recently so I’ll throw this in here. A map of officially Marxist-Leninist states in 1968. Plus the insurgencies in Laos, Cambodia, and the civil war in Vietnam. Considering that Yugoslavia is here, I should have put all of the socialist nations of ‘68 on here including many in Africa but I was short on time so this isn’t necessarily a perfect category. Drew all the Soviet subdivisions below the SSR level by hand so no doubt they are utterly imperfect and will not match up to renditions done previously. But I did it to the best of my ability so I hope they’ll suffice. I plan to expand this to a world map of 1968 though, so stay tuned.
EDIT: Chukotka, Guantánamo Bay and Cuban provinces, Soviet puppet outline on Eastern Europe
Considering how tiny Hans Island is, that wouldn't be visible except under the really big maps.As it is so small, but still an international border, should there be / will there be, a patch for the nuevo Canadian-Greenlandic border?
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.View attachment 749530
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.