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

"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.

More than two-thirds of U.S. states, 37 out of 50, have either abolished the death penalty or have not carried out an execution in at least 10 years.

They have Israel here as "Illegal with Exceptions", there is only one exception which is Nazi War Criminals can get the death penalty and been only used once

The US should probably be moved to the "Legal but not used" state, if you remove the tenure of Trump (and wouldn't we all like to do this) there would only be 3 death penalties carried out in Federal Courts since 1972, now State Courts are different, it's legal in about half the states and illegal, or a moratorium has been called, in about the other half

I'm all for the death penalty for crimes against children.

It looks like 2/3 of the world still believes in executions to a certain degree. And look at this map & tell me what is wrong here. Russia, legal but not used? Who made this map? They just executed a Chechen who turned his anger towards the Russian troops he was supporting He was killed with sledgehammers. So throw out that legal but not used c**p for Russia.

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'.

What is a day name?

So. Canada to Japan to UK to Canada. Repeat endlessly.

That's a lot of purple... *Nervously laughs in South African*

Decorative highway interchange *snort*