Works even better as an abstract Great Britain, though the smaller island would have to be moved to the other side.
Return of Horrible Educational Maps
- Thread starter Westphalian
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Someone's created a mosaic earth. Because that's the only way this makes any sense
I love the fact that some things are accurate (such as Walvis Bay being shown as a separate enclave) but overall this proves that putting a load of correct (/ nearly correct) things together doesn't make the whole thing good...
Has Bulgaria ever bordered Albania? (say, in the last 300 years)
The Treaty of San Stefano tried to do that. Before...probably during the period of the First Bulgarian Empire
Something in my mind get died when I saw this.
"Geography in its max expression"
Then to soothe your mind have a webfind on which the labels (amongst which is also Hong Kong) are at least on the right continent... albeit that's about as much accuracy you gonna get from it.
Special charm point: Korea being labeled and almost placed in the right location, but without there being a, you know, Korean peninsula...
Well, that's one way of implementing a new Northern Ireland protocol - have sea between N.Ireland and the Republic...
And there's not much chance of the new widened RedSuezCanalSea being blocked, though it will get less use, I think, due to the closure of the Gibraltar Strait.
... I could go on, but I can feel my sanity draining away...
I saw it while I was working on my map, so I wasn’t inspired by that but it certainly is one example of why I made my own lol
I think it was just some coincidence. But depicting colonial empires seems to be a difficult task, especially when the map maker wants to cover several centuries at once.
Next map (also from reddit) very related: