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To be fair, I'm an American from Texas that ran into a girl working a register at Walmart with a distinctly Southern Slavic accent. When I asked where she was from, she said "Europe." Yes, but which part? "You've probably never heard of it. Kosovo." "Ah, Kuminovo? Pristina?" She stared at me like I was the CIA come to take her away. Had several ladies from Kuminovo that worked with me when I was an overseas expat and had actually driven through Kosovo on a road trip just two years earlier...
"I dunno what country my house is in right now. This is the 19th century, the Balkans have wars as often as France has revolutions." "This is the 1880's. France's settled down from all the revolting." "Oh."
@@abeillebretonne4301 well, in that I just divide the land between the people with the highest war scores or just take the claims and puppet/liberate the rest
In 2014 when there was a referendum on whether Scotland should leave the UK, I legitimately thought that it meant physically breaking away. 😆 What's worse is that I was 12. 😆
how do people mess up like that? there are websites with the actual shape of the continental US right? why did they just take the bottom half and make Canada the other?
I can just imagine the annoyance if they did, you'd have to switch sides to go to literally any other country that is bordering it, which would be a hassle.
Yeah, its the world map on mapchart.net/world.html. Their Americas map also uses circles for tiny islands so that colouring things is easier, but it has a much more complete view of the Caribbean.
I have a REALLY bad map that shows Europe and Asia alot differently: - Sicily is too far from Italy itself - Norway, Belarus, Ukraine, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia dont exist - The Greek Islands are all messed up. - and The UK and Denmark look squished. Now for Asia: - Corsica and Italy's islands are in Asia apparantly. - The Suez is shown in Asia instead of Africa. (might be intentional) - and some islands are too big. and that's it!
@@richardnoah2922 no, because most of the Stan countries (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.) are shown on the map, along with Slovenia and Croatia being shown on the European part
Regarding the second map another mistake is that Finland is depicted as an axis power which it wasn't. It was a co-belligerent with Germany against the USSR.
Yeah it should get it's own color, but tbf for all intents and purposes it was an Axis country, so they probably just did it for convenience. I've seen other maps do the same thing.
Yeah Finland was anticomintern pact but it didn't join the axis, and while it had its own ethnic cleansing policies, it certainly didn't participate in the holocaust. There were Jewish Finnish soldiers that got awards from the Germans, then when they realized they were Jewish, demanded they be handed over. Finland straight up refused.
4:05 Something you didn't mention, probably because it's not really map related at all. Countries where you drive on the left of the road, have RIGHT HAND DRIVE vehicles. And vice versa. So this map doesn't really tell you anything. It just completely contradicts itself.
That first map is made on MapChart, I use it a lot. That map is the simplified world map, the detailed version shows all of the countries in the world, though still as circles. The version that shows all the provinces in the world replaces the circles with the actual countries though. Wait why did I bother writing this again?
About that map at 1:48, I think I recognize it! That same map also showed up in my 10th-grade world history textbook. I, myself wondered where West-Berlin was. As a Californian student, thanks for explaining what was up with that map! Here's a new subscriber in return!
The travel agency window one, is actually more accurate then you're giving credit for considering it's not to scale. The labels are corresponding to the circles so LA is pretty accurate, Singapore is pretty dead on and Fiji is pretty much where it's supposed to be. Most people probably think Fiji is off the coast of South America when it's actually much closer to Australia.
0:44 This is actually a map from mapchart.net, and there is an option on that website to make a map with all the microstates. For some reason they just decided to use the basic template. You can make a map with all the microstates (and some extra islands which aren't countries) at mapchart.net/detworld.html
Love the last map. Did you notice that parts of Hudson Bay had been filled in? The actual coastline is marked as a border forming the new country of... I don't know... Hudsonia?
The last map also conflates left/right hand drive with drive on the left/right. Those are two different things and are almost always opposite each other. One is which side of the car the driver is on, the other is which side of the road you drive on. The Bahamas is an interesting case as it’s drive on the left but a lot of the cars are just imports from the USA so you see a lot of left hand drive cars also driving on the left
The first map is made with mapchart, a software which allows you to edit maps, so the circles are so people can easily edit without people needing to zoom in a ton
@@nanoboso3656 Because someone failed to remember that the counties and duchies in the area of what's now the Netherlands and Belgium was back then mostly under Bunrgundian control or influence and part of the HRE
I grew up in the former Eastern Germany and even twenty years after the German reunification we still had a lot of the old schoolbooks - including in geography. Some of those maps were purposefully filled with errors. Not only was the GDR so petty and just printed WD (Westdeutschland) onto the border areas instead of BRD (FRG) but they also misplaced roads, towns and so on so people could not use these schoolbook-maps after they fled across the border...
As an American, it sounds like _Horrible_ _Maps_ can use some donations from the Eastern Bloc! I have once heard of one GDR-map depicting Westberlin as simply... a blank space. We're already getting started here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kwprznh3d-o.html
I love maps like the last one. In the first secon you think "what's wrong with that?" And then you go on discovering how wrong you've been for the next 5 to 10 min.
This video reminds me of a world map from an old geography book of mine, where the cities position got printed half centimeter on the right, leaving some capitals in the middle of the sea.
I remember in my sociology class where we watched video (can't remember what it is was) which showed a map of the world. It looked like it was a Pre-1938 map but it looked like China had the borders of the Puppet States Japan had set up. Keep in mind, the video was talking about the modern day. It was weird.
Don’t know if this comment will be seen, but there’s something I’d like to point out about the first map. If you go to the website, mapcharts, you can find a map of the world with most of the islands actually showing up. The map in the video was just one of the simple maps, and probably an early version of it compared to now
The sliding maps look like they're the result of all the countries being loaded into GIS or graphic design software as their own vectors, and the locations of some of those vectors being rendered incorrectly for whatever reason. This is why, when making maps using such software, you always check the final product before sending it out.
Ah, the fabled city of Sydney, Queensland... A couple hundred K's inland. And who could forget the port city of Melbourne, Western Australia... Nowhere near water and bordering South Australia. Typing all that made my head hurt.
the first map is from a site called mapchart, where you can color different countries to make graphs and such. they have two versions of the world: a simple one, which is the one you showed, and a detailed one, which has every nation and some important territories. they still kept the circles in the detailed one, though.
In one of my textbooks, there was a map showing the routes of the vikings. There wasnt any borders, but it had labeled cities. All the cities were WAY off, including Istanbul (Yes, it was labeled as Constantinople) was in the Black sea
I saw a map of the dates the African nations became independent of their European colonisers, which was fine except for them listing South Africa as 1994. While segregation ended in 1994, it had been independent since 1934 or 1960 depending how you see it.
Regarding that AoEII map, I heard they were to correct that one in Definitive Edition due to its infamy, but I haven't played it yet and googling didn't help me find any image to verify how the new one looks like. Might be worth checking out if they rectified the mistakes of the past. Maybe mention as a positive note in the next episode, if they did.
I think I understand why the first map is like that. They must have made it using this website called MapChart, which is what I use from time to time to make maps of my own. The world map feature has two versions, simplified (which is what you can see above) and detailed. Simplified does not show some of the Caribbean islands and the Solomon islands, though I'm not sure why. Probably because Mapchart lets you make maps by clicking on countries to color them, and having all those islands there makes that take longer if you want to fill up the entire map. The circles make it easier to color those islands. The map itself is pretty hilarious as well, I agree with that. It's pretty interesting to see that some one actually thought of that. But yeah if you are interested then you can find it at www.mapchart.net
Somehow, in the Loco Coconut one (or whatever it's called), Melbourne is on the Nullabor Plain, in Western Australia. The state capital of Victoria is now in another state entirely, playing havok both ecclesiastically and financially. Sydney, however, is apparently somewhere in Queensland (a similar arrangement of state capitals then), and now with (it seems) it has no water whatsoever (Murray-Darling Basin woes) and smells of dead fish, lots of dead fish. I love my sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of horrors of cartography and and carp-occluded drains....
The sliding countries possibly comes from translation errors, different projections getting "stuck" perhaps? Or maybe someone just forgot to unlock Canada after doing a transform on all the land masses. It looks like it's clipped into the coastlines which too is...weird
My high school planner has a map in the back, and I wish there was an online version, because it's just awful. At first glance, it's not that bad, but I spent an entire day finding every mistake in it.
For the first map it's custom mapchart, and I use it all the time. I'm unsure why they microstates and island nations were missing, you can include all of them. However, they are still just dots on the map.
I mean, there's also several other countries with flags on the moon. Japan, India, China, the Soviet Union, the European Union, and (sort of) Israel have all sent at least rovers up there. Chances are they had a flag on them at some point, heck the Israeli one took a selfie with an image of a flag before it lilthobraked. That first map didn't even get its content correct. Also, on that second map, is Puerto Rico labeled as an Axis power?
