don't you remember when the Russo-Franco-Ottoman union took over most of the world island but the Mahgreb was independent and Australia was split between two countries?
Someone gets paid to draw these. Either they do this intentionally because they have some grudge with their boss or they convinced everyone they were excellent at map making.
in the case of the last one, its probably just a dude panicking and doing a bad late night rush job the day before he publishes his black fever research paper in a medical journal. 'damn it jim, im a cardiologist not a cartographer'
Hi Tigerstar, for the Canadian elections map, it's actually the fault of the Canadian government. When they distribute their shapefiles for mapping software, the area of the election wards are always overlapping water bodies. I think the government is too lazy to exclude those water bodies for those elections wards. So for the time being, the government approved shapefiles will continue to cover large water bodies. Also, Mercator projections are the worst for Canada....
The problem with that map was, I believe, that 338-dot-com - essentially the Canadian version of 538-dot-com - had all their maps scale-able, and working out the code to all for the shading would be a problem. But yeah, the way they are coloured, you would be forgiven if you zoomed in and thought that Ontario had gobbled up about half of four out of five of the Great Lakes.
I went to school in Luxembourg. They tried to create a realistic map, showing the true size of Africa and Brazil, while still showing Luxembourg. It therefore ended up being the same size as Austria and took over Belgium. Never felt more proud
@Genghis Khan But then a lot of Austrians were po'ed, and still wanted to have their own country, so they invaded the Czechs, who in turn invaded Poland. Meanwhile, France decided it was time to reform it's old Napoleonic empire, and invaded Belgium, who decided to invade Germany, which promptly surrendered, as their government feared that any resistance would potentially cause a resurgence in Nazism. Also, it looks like Hungary invaded The Ukraine after their land was taken over by Vikings.
Me too, and the worst thing is that my Geography textbook cover has one of these mutants, like, it's not WRONG per se, but it's a mirrored map of Europe and it makes me unconfortable
Yep... Let me guess this alternate world: Hungary rebelled and got released by Austria, Poland got released by a crisis... And, you know what? EVERY COUNTRY THAT EXPANDED OR JUST GOT BORN WAS RELEASED BY A CRISIS!!
Germany was drawn wrong as Belgium there, Japan is teleported in and Italy are normal All of them were considered the bad guys (and were until Italy said lol bye fuckers to Germany). Switzerland borders them all, so this was 1939…
Ahmet ÖZ yeah the Turks invaded a tiny and weak country and stole half their land and even went as far as splitting the capital in two well I gues Cypriots are tough people because now they are a leading country in education, economic rise and more
At 2:15 it actually took me a good 10 seconds to see where the mistake was, as I was looking at the different nations in Africa and the middle east I was presuming they labeled them wrong until SPAIN.
1:29 *Shows the boundaries of all independents nations* ah yes indeed, the great Qing Empire, Inca Empire, South Vietnam and Japanese Empire... all the beautiful nations of 2012. Lmao i expected DPRK since it was the talk back in the day
@@festethephule7553 glad someone asked. He is a main figure of the Hellenic enlightenment (which is the period from 1700-1821, when the enlightenment came to ottoman-held Greece), who advocated for a Hellenic State stressing the entirety of the Ottoman Balkans. He wanted it to be a democracy, like the US, were all the people from all nations and religions within the state would be equal (at the time, Greeks were called Romioi, so they would also be equal). He died in 1797, before the revolution even started, and that's why the Greeks proclaimed independence in Ottoman-controlled Wallachia, in the city of Iasi (today in Romania). Greeks, lived in the entirety of the Balkans, but we're too scarce in most region, constituting a majority only in the places roughly today Greece lies in (not some in it's north, but some more in Asia Minor, North Epirus and Thrace). I guess his dream came true in this map.
The Last map can be explained, they took off Rusia, Japan and Pakistan and turned them to an ocean, they then filled the Mediterrean, Pacific and the Baltic Sea
As soon as the Desert Storm cards were mentioned, I knew that the Turkey card was going to be in this. I had those cards when I was younger and remember that card all too well!
It is number 1 rule of being a cartogropher, paint in all the islands with its mainland owners yet when it comes to Eastern Thrace which has the Europe's most populated city you don't even dare picking the colour of Turkey and clicking on that piece
I love these videos, at first even with him explaining, i literally cannot find the problem, then sometimes i can see, then theres 3:43 where someone probably just drew the borders from memory blindfolded
As an 11 year old who’s Geography knowledge is still improving, I believe that Guatemala at one point claimed the entirety of Belize. Love your videos from India 🇮🇳. Edit: Map ४।
My history book's world map has really sloppy borders and landmasses. But my favorite part is how it shows the often overlooked fact that Turkey and Iraq are actualy one country.
Holy crap dude, I remember those Desert Storm cards! I was in like fifth grade when Gulf War One\Desert Shield & Storm happened, our whole class wrote letters to the troops, and a couple of the kids had active duty parents that were deployed. My buddy and I traded those cards back and forth for months. Thanks for that blast from the ancient past!
0:41 “On this one, Guatemala ate Belize” Given the current situation two weeks later, this seems less implausible than it probably did when you recorded this, if only by a little.
You should do a series on historical maps that were inaccurate, but how they came about and why they were in accurate in the way they were. I love looking at old inaccurate naps but have hard times finding them not hilariously hlbad like this, but like actualky good for the time
@EmperorTigerstar Slight correction at 1:55, while Poland wasn't independent it's still prudent to represent it on the map as it was nominally self governing as Congress Poland.
If anyone's interested, the India Flag at 1:27 apparently comes from some alt history thing called "A World of Difference" althistory.fandom.com/wiki/A_World_of_Difference
3:09 Let’s see what’s wrong Upside down Greece is in north of Russia Upside down Italy is the new Denmark Upside down Sardinia,Upside down Canary Islands and Upside down Corsica are islands in the North Sea Upside down Denmark is suddenly the new Italy Upside down Scandinavia destroyed the South Upside down Islands of Estonia are somehow near Greece Did I miss something? Comment if I did and like this comment!
Yes this video is 2 years old. Yes I watched it. Whatever I’m still commenting this: My favorite part of the map at 4:14 is that they took the basic shape of Antarctica, shrunk it down, twisted it slightly and stuck it between Europe-Africa and that weird Australian-Oceanland combo.
I find it awfully common that (just like in the first and third maps) whoever draws these maps ALWAYS forgets to include Istanbul and Edirne (the little balkan part) into Turkey. They STILL separate the border from Greece and Bulgaria, But they *do not* connect it to Turkey. Apperantly İstanbul tookover the rest of the land and declared its independence.
in 3:10 thats just an experimental map, like the guy just made this for a "what if the Medittereanean sea is swapped with the Scandinavian sea?"(sorry for a wrong spelling if there's one)... Edit: looks amazing tho...
That second map is an alternate history thing. I'm almost 100% sure it's from alternatehistory.com, and what I'm guessing happened is: 1) Someone posts this map on ah.com as something like "my timeline's 2012." 2) Later, this newspaper needs a map of the world 2012 and sends an intern to do it. 3) The intern Googles "map 2012" or something and sees this in the results. 4) Not realizing how wrong it is, the intern picks this map because they like the flags. 5) The editor doesn't care and just goes "yep that's a map alright." 6) It gets published.
