In case you're wondering, because I looked it up immediately when I had learned about it: It's manmade, was made in 1991, is 116 meters long, and a 1:10,000 scale of Finland! The construction engineer was Esko Sääskilahti. It was going to be the Centerpoint of a tourist village, but that part was never completed. The lake took a week to excavate. Hope you enjoyed learning some more! :-)

That's shockingly precise, considering the year of production.

that's a lot of castles. I didnt realise there were that many.

Yay, Czechoslovakia!

Probably 'counties', not countries. Edit 5 hours later to add: hmm, they changed the title from 'countries' to 'counties' so this comment now confusing, "huh?".

26% of the Netherlands should be under sea level.

Oops Turkey

Is this a map-?

That's alarming at very least

The fact that more than one person thought it was in the UK 😂😂😅

Not yet...

Too many :(

Even underwater. That's impressive.

YEEEEEEEESSS!!! THX ITALY FOR FINDING ME ATRACTIVE

The US government is definitely flawed

Why is there "no data" for Greenland? It is a dependancy of Denmark.

I guess Ireland is part of Scandinavia now. Which makes sense - Dublin and two other cities (Limerick and Waterford) were founded by the vikings.

All hail the Nordics - apparently the only true democracies in the world.

I'm curious what the official distinction is between a full democracy and flawed democracy?

The US isn't a democracy, it's a Constitutional Republic.

Northern Europe, whom also are the most socialist countries score the highest... and keep winning "best places to live" usually. wonder why...? ;)

I think in this past year, Russia has went from pink to red. Not directly so much with it's invasion of Ukraine but now how they are treating their own people. Putin is the absolute ruler, no longer a simple elected official. He is now president for life. Foes of his regime are being assassinated, sent to labor camps, & even executed in horrible ways. He is acting more like Stalin everyday.

Must be an older map showing projections. As is, after 2016 the US should not score more than 4.00-5.99, with a declining trend to the number. Russia should in no way be above 2.99 since Putin began his second stint as president of that dictatorship in all but name.

Please put us, the US down as a hybrid regime since 2016.

What's a full democracy? It's still only representative

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The U.S. are mislabeled. Should be total authoritarian - at present. Change, however, is coming. Necessary and drastic change.

"Far beyond the ice and snow The voyage carries on For blood and gold, we sold our souls Redemption lies at Magnetic North"

Greece looks so complicated

I know strip malls and strip clubs are VERY different things, but I still can't help reading them the same when I see them together...

borders are so lame.

in other words, poverty -> bad air

Why is everybody walking away from Poland? Did Poland say anything controversial again?

France 😂

Am I the only one who googled for "Australian football" and "Gaelic football"? :)))

That's cause the housing market is crazy, prices are sky high.

Wait, what? You frigging kidding me?

I love how Finland is like "Perkele, absolutely no school uniforms in our place!"

this is somewhat misleading... the blue is game reserves. There would be near-zero lions left without game reserves.

We in Germany have 32% of our land mass covered in forests

this is why there needs to be no veto powers in the UN.

In my country (South Africa) we have terrible crime rates. Some say bringing the death penalty back would reduce it but Europe is a good example that that would not be the case.

so, places where people want independence?

Xi is watching you.

To be honest, i expected more :))))

I'd rather the US have this distribution than Russia or China....

Only the USA has the name " America" as part of their country name. Similarly to South Korean, generally speaking, no one says 'my parents are South Korean'. It's just 'my parents are Korean'. No one says 'I am United States of American's, it's just 'American'.