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Learning can be fun; but if you don’t want to take my word for it, I will let today’s list do the talking.
Today, we’re focusing on geography and all sorts of maps that ought to bring some perspective into the way you view territories. Ranging from maps that show how many Switzerlands one Brazil can fit or how big Somalia is compared to the East Coast in the US, among other things, the list is a fascinating way to learn more about the world around us. So wait not a second longer, delve deeper into the fascinating maps, and enjoy the journey.
On the list below, you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia and an expert in Medieval culture and maps, Dr. Robert Rouse, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions.
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Michael Largey 11 months ago (edited)
A map of Scotland made out of rocks would indeed be geologically correct.
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Robert Trebor 11 months ago
Just imagine all the wonderful wars there could be if the blue was the land.
Janissary35680 11 months ago
Earth is a water planet. The landy bits are the accidents of plate tectonics.
It’s safe to assume that few people’s hearts start beating faster when they think about maps. Unless you’re a geography enthusiast, you might not be overjoyed by the prospect of staring at one.
But in addition to a ‘regular one,’ which focuses on the territories of the countries of the world, there’s a plethora of other kinds of maps depicting all sorts of interesting information, which ought to awaken your curiosity. As this list will likely show, maps can be way more exciting than most people think!
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Dusty's mom 11 months ago
Wow! There's flamingos in Tierra Del Fuego? Isn't it rather chilly at times, or do they migrate to warmer climates?
Talking about why it is important to be familiar with maps—at least the one focused on countries’ territories—Dr. Robert Rouse of the University of British Columbia noted that if we don't know the world we live in, it’s hard to be an informed participant in politics or culture. “Maps provide us with a tool for displaying geographical (and other) information in an easily digested, readily readable format,” he said.
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PeepPeep the duck 11 months ago
I’m dying in Dubbo away from my Pacific Ocean, I cannot imagine being this far from one 😭
Rich Black 11 months ago
This USED to be the Uighur autonomous region. Then we're arrested and sent to reeducation camps.
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Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 11 months ago
The Flat Earth Society is disappointed in this scandalously wrong image /s/j
General Anaesthesia 11 months ago
Hey, even the cartographer says it's a *straight* line.
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ggus44 11 months ago
Cool! If the image is turned like this, it's easier to understand, because we are used to see the globe through this angle. earth-6786...98d98c.png 
Phantom Phoenix 11 months ago
Whilst I appreciate the permission, I lack the equipment. And the ability. And the desire. But other than that, thanks, I guess.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
This is why Donald Trump keeps trying to buy Greenland BTW. The map makes him think it's bigger than it really is. Yes folks, the incoming POTUSA is an idiot who has no idea how maps work.
Talking about maps and perspective, Dr. Rouse pointed out that many people have little idea that maps are dependent on their technological perspective.
“The Mercator projection, which is the dominant mode of map-presentation that most people are familiar with, was developed for sea navigation (as it presents longitude and latitude on a familiar x-y grid pattern), and it dramatically distorts the size and area of many countries, exaggerating those towards the poles. This leads to many people underestimating the size of countries towards the equator, and overestimating those of the global north.”
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Display name here 11 months ago
I feel like if you wrote a program to map the driving directions to any given city from a thousand random starting points, you would get a very similar result.
Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
No, that's because Italians drive with one hand on the wheel, one hand on the horn, one hand holding the phone, one hand to make gestures, and one hand on the gearshift
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DowntownStevieB 11 months ago
It's amazing how the Roman Empire collapsed yet we still use several of their practices, buildings and construction techniques. Just shows their influence.
nottheactualphoto 11 months ago
Obviously they drove their Topolinos on the ice roads, e.g. across the Mediterranean to Sardinia.
Load More Replies... Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
Except the GRA(Grande Raccordo Annullare). You can keep going for ages and still not reach Rome, except when you take an exit
Owen 11 months ago
This map features several roads that go right through the sea. And the Romans never invaded Russia.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 11 months ago
Yeah, but there still would have been trade routes, travelling merchants, and movement between Rome and the neighbouring nations. If I remember correctly, Baltic Amber was a commodity desired in Rome–which is why the Amber Road exists. Even though the Romans never invaded the Balts either.
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David Shaw 10 months ago
To misquote Sir Terry Pratchett - no, all roads lead away from Rome, but sometimes people travel along them *the other way*
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David Gourbeault 11 months ago
I never understood the reason for a such illogical date format...
DowntownStevieB 11 months ago
This true of the U.S. unless you're in healthcare or the military
Jean Thompson 11 months ago
The same map shows all the countries that play American Football. Football which isn't soccer. Also play rounders and call it baseball ...
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 11 months ago
It's a stupid system. Why would anyone else use it?
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PeepPeep the duck 11 months ago
That makes the amount of drives all over Australia I’ve done look so crazy next to looking at Europe and Africa, it’s cool to know I would have the enthusiasm to drive all over Africa’s continent 😂 (always wanted to see Sudan and Ethiopias ancient infrastructure and palace ruins)
Rich Black 11 months ago
Why is Alaska shown as independent country? What else might be wrong here?
Kit Black 11 months ago
There is no key to the colors, they simply used enough colors to ensure that each country could be distinguished separately.
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Chris Prescott 11 months ago
That is the island of New Guinea, not the country Papua New Guinea. It includes the Papuan provinces of Indonesia and a portion of Papua New Guinea.
Dahamada Jamawas 11 months ago
That is New Guinea - Papua New Guinea is only the eastern half of that island.
Venezuelan Panda 10 months ago
Just wait until Britain trim the trees and it will look Great again
Rich Black 11 months ago
They have a military alliance with the people's republic of China. Wonder how that's going to work out.
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Ivo H 11 months ago
Easy, just find an image of "how many bananas fit in Switzerland" apply to this image
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
More like spawning salmon. What did you think the Swiss reproduced like normal people?
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Rich Black 11 months ago
I remember seeing maps of the Soviet union like this. The bronotosaurus national fixation
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
Oh so all those gifts from "Santa" really do come from the North Pole.
Bored Seb 11 months ago
If you think that the North Pole is in Alaska, then yes
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Rich Black 11 months ago
Unless you have to make an emergency landing before reaching your destination
Even though maps focused on territory lines show exactly where one country ends and another begins, when it comes to cultural issues or such things as language and faith, it’s not all that clearcut.
Discussing how maps based on social or cultural issues can help people get a better idea of how certain cultures intertwine, Dr. Rouse suggested that most maps are presented using national boundaries, but most things—race, faith, cultural beliefs, and language—largely ignore these borders. In the expert’s opinion, it makes the world “a much messier, and more interesting, place.”
“We often have much more in common with people across the border than our politicians sometimes suggest,” he told Bored Panda.
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Agfox 11 months ago
If only! Coincidentally, many early explorers were convinced there was a huge inland sea waiting to be found
Libstak 11 months ago
Not quite but we do have a huge underground water reserve, the Artesian basin
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 11 months ago
It would certainly give a big boost to Australia's tourism industry!
Load More Replies... Rich Black 11 months ago
If only they actually had that much water. 90% ofvaustralia is a desert. Most people live within 10 km of the coastline
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Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
The western world places Europe in the center. The Americas to the west, Asia to the east. The Bering Straight is the edge on both sides of the map. China has placed itself in the middle, with the Atlantic as the edges
Rich Black 11 months ago
But why would anyone do this, unless they were an argentian government official?
While all sorts of unique maps are quite fun to analyze, according to the expert, there’s more to them than that. “They challenge us to think about the world differently, more complexly. And this is a good thing at a moment when politics seems to be becoming more insular, more nationalistic, in nature,” he said.
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Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 11 months ago
I would like to know where the ice went. Did it melt or magically poof away?
Petra Peitsch 11 months ago
It's called climate change. The Earth is going naturally through it.
Load More Replies... El Dee 11 months ago
This is accurate BUT when ice sheets melt the land underneath will, eventually, 'bounce back' This has happened in places like the UK where the northern half of the country was under ice in the last ice age. Scotland now has 'raised beaches' and the south is being pushed down again (like two ends of a see-saw)
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
9-11 really changed the way people think about airlines.
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Rich Black 11 months ago
Who could possibly want to hijack a jet and crash it into the Olympics,? Who?
Lee Gilliland 11 months ago
This actually contains a bunch of not fly zones, several of which are shown on this map.
Verena 11 months ago
Open Flyradar, zoom in on France and then come back here.
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Deborah 11 months ago
There are a couple of European countries, like San Marino, which are smaller than Central Park.
Enrico Righetti 11 months ago
San Marino is about 20 times larger than Central Park. Monaco, on the other way, is about 2 thirds of Central Park
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Falafal salad 11 months ago
Both contain a lot of crazy folk talking to their imaginary friend.
Rich Black 11 months ago
Fun fact. Vatican city is completely surrounded by a wall, manned by armed guards 247
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Rich Black 11 months ago
Thank goodness that didn't last. Who wants d**g cartels running California and texas?
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Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
And as a Dutchman, I can say that the left map is similar to the projected map of 2100
Diolla 11 months ago (edited)
Also, about a third of the country is about sea level, so there were many swamps and areas that would flood on a regular basis. In the North where I live you can still see many old farmhouses and churches built on a 'terp' which is a man-mad hill, to prevent them from flooding all the time. Pic by GerardM at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3253953 Hogebeintu...ad6252.jpg 
Robert Trebor 11 months ago
When my dad was in Amsterdam on business, the hotel he was staying in was across the street from an about 2 acre lake. A Dutch visitor told him the lake was 900 feet deep. They needed the dirt, so they made a lake.
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TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago
I live in the part of Germany that was Rome's guerilla experience
For All Pedernity 11 months ago
This is by no means all cities founded by the Romans outside of Italy!
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Ubiquitous 10 months ago
They both have a single timezone for the whole country
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
You can make maps like this for most of the North American Continent.
Papa 11 months ago
Maybe so, but it's exaggerated in Canada. The vast majority of the people live within 150 miles of the US border.
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Fred L. 11 months ago
Translation of the text "This land appeared here to the captain of the fourteen ships sent from Portugal to Calicut by the King: it was thought to be mainland although, together with the previously discovered part, it is an enormous sea-girt island of yet unknown size, in which both sexes, male and female, are used to going about no otherwise than as their mothers bore them. And in fact here they are somewhat lighter-skinned than those found on an earlier expedition under the command of the King of Castile." (from the map's wikipedia article)
Rich Black 11 months ago
"Turn right at the azores and sail for 6 weeks. Ignore the stars. The won't appear like anything you're familiar with."
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Dan Holden 11 months ago (edited)
This isn't exactly accurate. I can only speak about Canada, but we spell things the British way (colour instead of color etc) but the words we use and the way we speak is much closer to our American neighbors than to British English.
FreeTheUnicorn 11 months ago (edited)
No, in Canada, they teach Canadian English. Humour, and realize. Not humor or realise, among other conventions.
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 11 months ago
Which both come from the British spellings!
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Ece Cenker 11 months ago
Not accurate imo. Depends quite a bit on where your English language teachers come from.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
Apart from the spelling of a few words like "Color" and "Colour", what's the difference really?
Robin Roper 11 months ago
A woman very close to me teaches English in a Russian speaking eastern European country. Because she spent 6 weeks every summer for over 12 years in our US southern home she now speaks "American English." She tells me there are quite a few differences between American and British English - the grammar can be different, pronunciation of certain words is different, the vocabulary is different, idioms are different, the formatting of dates and numbers is different, and as you mentioned, spelling of certain words.
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Verena 11 months ago
"Taught in school", people, not how you actually speak in daily life. Once you are out of school, how you speak depends entirely on what the local language is. I wonder how many readers will interprete the map above as "look, English is the mother tongue of everybody". No, the vast majority of these people learn English during 3 to 4 years at school, and the only English they are confronted with later is in music, advertisements and (rarely) un-dubbed movies.
Sam Lombardo 11 months ago
Not accurate for Germany. We start with BE and on most schools we switch to AE later on.
Rich Black 11 months ago
The canadians probably disagree. Watch their TV broadcasts if you're uncertain about this.
Katie Allen 11 months ago
I used to know somebody from India who said you have a choice of learning British English or American English in schools there.
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Janissary35680 11 months ago (edited)
How about a global distribution of Bored Pandas? Anybody?
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Robin Roper 11 months ago
Build that wall! Oh, it's how long? Maybe we need to think about it.
Auntriarch 11 months ago
We've done walls in Europe before. It didn't end well
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UKDeek 11 months ago
Another historical leader wanted to build a great wall, but his was along the Atlantic, and its size and strength were often exaggerated...
TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago
I wouldn't underestimate it's strength given the casualities it caused while not even being fully manned though
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 11 months ago
I think it's shorter. This map took the wiggly southern border and straightened it out. US/Canada is already mostly straight.
Load More Replies... DowntownStevieB 11 months ago
Imagine Trump trying to build that "wall" he "promised" to make Mexico pay for....
Katie Allen 11 months ago
Trumpy Dumpty sat on his wall, Trumpy Dumpty had a great fall
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Owen 11 months ago
This is why I refused to sail across the Pacific. Someone wanted to hire me, and I said nope.
Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 11 months ago (edited)
I would refuse to sail across the Pacific too. Mostly because I have never been on a real ship and don't know how to sail, though. EDIT: I have used a canoe many times, but canoes aren't really ships.
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 11 months ago (edited)
If you hold up a globe with your eye fixed at about the center of the Pacific Ocean, nearly all of Earth's landmass cannot be seen. Eurasia, Africa, and North & South Americal are essentially all located in a single hemisphere.
Rich Black 11 months ago
It's shrinking. Tectonic plates are colliding. At some point peopel in new York will be able to walk to tokyo, if anyone is still alive.
Robert Trebor 11 months ago
I call it the Specific Ocean, having been from Pearl Harbor to Japan to the Philippines to Hong Kong to Taiwan to Thailand to Singapore to the Philippines to Guam to Midway to Pearl Harbor to Bremerton, Washington,
Science Nerd 11 months ago
To match the map above about the point on earth most distant from any ocean, here’s a link to the most distant point from land. https://interestingengineering.com/lists/point-nemo-farthest-point-land
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Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
And there are more monsters in the Loch than in all of England and Wales combined as well
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Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 11 months ago
I'm assuming the Australian accent for the words "No way"
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Debby Keir 11 months ago
And it's probably got the same length of coastline as Australia, given all the inlets, fjords and islands.
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FreeTheUnicorn 11 months ago
Relative size not actual size, BP. They are very much to scale. What are these, countries for ants?
Owen 11 months ago
Canada, Russia, Greenland and China are much larger than that. And the US is smaller than it thinks it is.
Rich Black 11 months ago
Wait, Australia is bigger than the continental USA? Not really. It's 20% smaller. Check back with whoever drew this please.
Hmmm hmmmm 11 months ago
No it's the actual size of the country ignoring the mercador projection
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pebs 11 months ago
On September 22, 1979, a nuclear test is believed to have been conducted between Bouvet Island and the Prince Edward Islands. The test was detected by artificial satellites, which detected a brief but intense flash of light; radioactive dust was also detected by scientists in the Australian Antarctic Territory. No nation has ever admitted responsibility for the test, although it is widely believed that it was carried out by South Africa or Israel. The episode is known as the Vela incident.
nottheactualphoto 11 months ago
A satellite made by humans., As opposed to naturally-occurring ones like moons and planets.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 11 months ago
A volcanic atoll. Norway "claims" it, even though it's 13,000 kilometers south.
STress (I/me) 11 months ago
As far away as it might seem, they have a celebrity - Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands!
Auntriarch 11 months ago (edited)
Is that the short waddley chap in the dinner jacket?
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Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
Post Covid19, that has diminished a lot in Europe. We couldn't for 2 years, and most people rethought it. It's invasive to personal space, serves no purpose and makes people uncomfortable. ( think #METOO)So they simply dropped the habit.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 11 months ago
Damn, I read "Greek kissing" and wondered what I was missing all my life. Not a fan of cheek-kissing either.
Abel 11 months ago
No. Face cheek to cheek, and mostly is kiss in the air if you are posh, or you try to avoid physical contact. It is a bit weird, but is a tradition and pretty accepted. I prefer a handshake, though. It gives more information.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 11 months ago
It bears some resemblance to something else but I can't.... quite grasp what....
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Say No to Downvoting 11 months ago
No, hang on - what’s on the west side? I feel like this is relevant to prove their point.
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Auntriarch 11 months ago
When I first heard of Lake Titicaca I thought someone was pulling my leg
Seán Baron 11 months ago
I love how Eddy starts using it as a name for Saffy’s friend Sarah in AbFab.
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 11 months ago
Caspian Sea, Superior, Victoria, Huron, Michigan, Tanganyika, Baikal, Great Bear Lake, Malawi, Great Slave Lake, Erie, Winning, Ontario, Ladoga, Balkhash, Vostok, Onega, Titicaca, Nikaragua, Athabasca, Reindeer, Turkana, Issyk-Kul, Vänern, Rukwa. Had to wiki cause I can't read that small
Matt Du 11 months ago
Lake Baikal(right most) is also the largest body of fresh water in the world(20%), the oldest(20 million years) and deepest(5,300 feet). China is likely to demand the rights to both that(China is a water poor county) and most western Russian mining rights to help partially bail Russia out of it economic mess. And considering they stole a 10th of China after WW2, it's very unlikely they will settle for less.
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Petra Peitsch 11 months ago
Yeah, my very first thought, when I saw Australia without any dots.
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 11 months ago
Ah. Don't want to be a naysayer, but New Zealand had a series of wars in the mid 1800s.
Norm Gilmore 11 months ago
It's a bit hard to see on this map but there are a couple of dots to be seen on the original sized map on X-twitter.
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Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 11 months ago
Yeah. Florida and Texas. Better yet, give them back to Mexico and Spain.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 11 months ago
Whereas you can drive for 149 minutes on the M6 and it feels like you’ve driven for 149 years and still haven’t got past Birmingham….
Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
Depends on the car as well. Driving from Moscow in a Lada, you might make it to St. Petersburg in just under the 149h mark
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Owen 11 months ago
I'm suprised that California and Russia aren't in there. But Russia probably doesn't share its statistics.
CP 11 months ago (edited)
Russia isn't all that strong economically. They punch far above their weight. If you were to make a state out of New York, NJ, and PA it would be roughly equivalent to CA economically. Then add Texas to it and California gets left out.
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Glen Ellyn 11 months ago
Be careful. This will confuse geography ignoramuses - you'll never convince them that Africa is not a country.
NetworkMan 11 months ago
Africa is not a country, there is nothing to convince.
Load More Replies... marcelo D. 11 months ago
So a continent (africa) is bigger than some countries by themselves? Shocking…
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Owen 11 months ago (edited)
Erm... There are lots of supermarkets open 24hrs in the UK. I don't know about the other countries, but we have 24hr service in lots of places.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 11 months ago
This is talking about Sundays. England, Wales and NI are subject to Sunday trading legislation whereby stores with a footprint of more than 3000 square feet can only trade for 6 hours on a Sunday. Scotland has no such law.
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Sully 11 months ago (edited)
Not at all. India is also very low on the “access to clean water “ map.
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Debby Keir 11 months ago
Interested to know why the heel of Italy's boot doesn't conform to everything around it.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 11 months ago
They probably did it for their GCSE geography project. Suggestions we were given back in the early 90s included such delights as mapping the distribution of litter from a fast food restaurant or the area where duck is used as a term of endearment…..
Load More Replies... Petra Peitsch 11 months ago
At Romania, one clearly see, that Transilvania is not really part of the country, not just historically, but also genetically, Treaty of Versailles s.ucks a lot.
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Owen 11 months ago (edited)
I know exactly which one I would choose to live in. Finnland is the happiest country in the world, and then there's Russia which treats its people as disposable. For no apparent reason. Look up Russian jails and Finnish jails on YouTube. The difference is both scary and enormous.
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Owen 11 months ago
It's... almost as though... the US isn't God's country? And maybe Jesus wasn't white?
Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
Jesus wasn't white. He has always had an olive complexion. Just like his brothers Juan and Manuel, and his sister Maria
Load More Replies... Peter Griffin 11 months ago
more than I thought, though most of them probably get mentioned very briefly once
Adrian 11 months ago
More proof it's a book of myths. Did god forget to mention he created all those other countries LOL?
Owen 11 months ago
It is a book of myths. If God was kind and all powerful, why didn't he just kill Satan to stop evil? Why do dogs not live more than 10yrs? Why didn't he cure cancer? But supposedly, if you don't believe in him, you go to hell to be tortured forever. If he exists, he's a sadistic, narcassistic psycho.
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Alex Martin 11 months ago
Istanbul is to Turkey as Constantinople is to the Byzantine Empire.
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El Dee 11 months ago
Genuinely shocked that Tel Aviv is the most expensive place on the planet..
TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago (edited)
My guess would be taxes to cover the defense budget, the Iron Dome anti-missile system alone is rather expensive to operate
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Daniel Gómez 11 months ago
I'm not. My best friend studied there in the early 2010s and it was the second most expensive city in the world back then.
Load More Replies... marcelo D. 11 months ago
Now do one that actually compares how much it cost to average salaries in there. Bet you it changes a lot
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JoNo 11 months ago
My state (South Australia) is 45% larger than Texas ... and we aren't the largest state in Australia!
Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
Everything is bigger in Texas. Except for the spiders
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Space Invader 11 months ago
Something that no Texan would ever mention. Not ever. Not even under theeat of torture.
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Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 11 months ago (edited)
I looked this up as I was skeptical, and yes, this is true. Chile is around 4300 km (2700 mi) long while the moon's diameter is around 3475 km (2150 mi). Estimates between different sites and data sources vary, but land around there.
WindySwede 11 months ago
Here the moon vs Australia how-big-is...tralia.jpg 
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Johnnynatfan 11 months ago
Uh we dont have one on our flag........ we just have actual ones in peoples homes.
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Dan Holden 11 months ago
This is about gendered languages, not genders of people.
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Corvus 11 months ago
Countries are usually feminine in Bulgarian, with some exceptions here and there (e.g. China is masculine).
pebs 11 months ago
Same in Italian, but China is feminine. Chile is masculine and also Japan, for example.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago
Thinking about it, same in german. I know we call it "Fatherland" but that's more a name rather than a grammatical gender.
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What do you think ?
Margaret Shannon 11 months ago
If I were still teaching, I would cheerfully steal all these images and show them to my students. Especially the ones that depict the size of the continent of Africa. Too many people, even educated people, seem to think Africa is a country and small.
Auntriarch 11 months ago (edited)
I was educated in Africa (eSwatini) and the first thing my geography teacher did was make us trace South Africa and Greenland from the globe, and try to fit it over the equivalent on Mercator.
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ShortAttnSpanTheatre 11 months ago
Great job!! I love these. Maybe sub-contract Thomas Pueyo to feed you maps.
Margaret Shannon 11 months ago
If I were still teaching, I would cheerfully steal all these images and show them to my students. Especially the ones that depict the size of the continent of Africa. Too many people, even educated people, seem to think Africa is a country and small.
Auntriarch 11 months ago (edited)
I was educated in Africa (eSwatini) and the first thing my geography teacher did was make us trace South Africa and Greenland from the globe, and try to fit it over the equivalent on Mercator.
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Great job!! I love these. Maybe sub-contract Thomas Pueyo to feed you maps.
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