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The original was posted on /r/mapporn by /u/Autistic-Inquisitive on 2024-03-30 14:54:37.
Oh man please don’t call Georgia non-European and then put them on Ireland. They get very noisy about this
I assume it’s the Republic of the Congo for Germany, not the Democratic Republic.
Indeed I was also wondering about that. You are most likely correct given how huge the DRC is.
Zaire was a cooler sounding name
Just now realized how big Madagascar is.
I’d like to see the same for US states.
Congo is much bigger than Deutschland, what is this?
My guess is you’re thinking of the DRC, because Congo is pretty much equal in size.
Yeah you’re right. Our news would use “Kongo” for the catastrophe and “Kongo-Brazzaville” for the country.
Had no idea Madagascar was so big.
Is this comparing the British Isles or the Bri’ish Empire?
Neither, just the UK.
Madagascar is bigger that it looks
The Ukraine is bigger than it is (according to this map).
It’s just Ukraine, no ‘the’. Was that a Russian annexation joke?
Maybe English is not their native language, in German wie also say “Die Ukraine” instead of just Ukraine.
Here I was thinking about how Madagascar must be smaller than I thought if it’s the same size as Ukraine. It looks so big on a map, like a quarter Australia.
I also thought Switzerland being the same size as Bhutan to be rather interesting, as they both have famous mountain ranges and tend to be a neutral while sandwiched between bigger powers.
Mercator protection strikes again
Uh I thought Philippines was bigger since there’s like 200 million of them.
Is this map made by a turk? Why half of the greek islands in Aegean Sea grey? Wtf.
Damn, the mercator projection is really distorting. Seeing all these African countries which “look” pretty small are actually really large as shown by this map.
