Edgar Allen Ho posted:

India is a monoculture. What divides could you find there as contentious as the great New Mexico-Arizona feud?

Delthalaz posted:

LOL at the independent pacific coast. What possible justification could there be for that? The deepest cultural divide in the US is through the rockies? this might be the worst map of this type I’ve seen.

Molentik posted:

Count Roland posted:

If you insist on making us guess, please put a description of the map in spoiler tags, at least.

Spaced God posted:

this is.... impressively bad.

The person deleted his reddit post so I can't find the original image but this was in the comments

SlothfulCobra posted:

No idea who Kalmar is, but apparently he decided to let Canada have Greenland.

SlothfulCobra posted:

The only thing I recognize is somehow England has a thin blue line flag.


Croatia is dalm.

"Saudi Terrorists" is an odd choice for your ideal world.

No idea who Kalmar is, but apparently he decided to let Canada have Greenland.

The new city-states of Brussels, Baghdad, and I guess...Aragon?

I feel like people who are in favor of one big west coast nation are weird in the head.

Golbez posted:

Heh, this has a lot of stuff in it. Every single part of every border here is strange.

* Pennsylvania and Maryland established their border as 39°43' N - this is an east-west line roughly 15 miles south of the southernmost point of Philadelphia. This is part of the famous Mason-Dixon Line.

* The Pennsylvania-Delaware border was established as a 12-mile circle centered on the cupola of the courthouse in New Castle, Delaware. (Not seen: The 12 Mile Circle also included the Delaware River up to the far shore, so any landfill from New Jersey into the river, within the 12 mile circle, is part of Delaware. This has caused major issues more than once. See also: Maryland and DC own the Potomac River, Virginia owns not one drop)

* Also not seen: The Delmarva Peninsula. The Mason-Dixon Line also includes the border between Maryland and Delaware all the way down. It consists of:
** The Transpeninsular Line: A line from Cape Henlopen west to the Chesapeake Bay. However, here, we already have a problem, as the line doesn't start at Cape Henlopen, it starts further south at Fenwick Island.
** Then find the midpoint of this line, let's call this (a).
** Now find the western edge of the Twelve Mile Circle, let's call this point (b).
** Draw a line from (a) to (b). We now have a straight, nearly north-south line - but not quite - called the Tangent Line. This line intersects the Twelve Mile Circle a little bit south of the western edge.

The plan was, that the border would reach the circle, then turn north to the Pennsylvania border - hence, the North Line. Any part of the Twelve Mile Circle west of the North Line remains part of Delaware - hence, the Arc Line.

So now we have all the dramatis personae - the Maryland-Pennsylvania border is defined as 39° 43' N. The Maryland-Delaware border is defined as the North Line, Twelve Mile Circle, and the Tangent Line.

So what about The Wedge, which slips in between 39° 43' N, the North Line, and the Twelve Mile Circle? It can't be Pennsylvania - their southern limit is 39° 43'. It can't be Delaware - their western limit is the Twelve Mile Circle. And it can't be Maryland - their eastern limit is the North Line.

This region remained disputed until 1921. And it wasn't smooth sailing before then - Pennsylvania had made a strong attempt at it, and some federal maps even included it in Pennsylvania as late as 1900. But the states finally came to an agreement. Maryland had no dog in the fight - as no definition of their state went east of the North Line, they had no say. But since it was only the Pennsylvania-Maryland line that was defined as 39° 43' N, then they could say "This border isn't with Maryland, it's with Delaware, so we aren't limited to that."

So yeah. All this over a 684 acre plot of land.

Epicurius posted:

The Kalmar Union was a not very successful unification of the Scandanavian crowns that lasted for about 100 years 500 years ago.

Molentik posted:

members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

Orange Devil posted:

What's going on in the Baltics?

loving lol if that's the Russian minorities.

SurgicalOntologist posted:

No Palestine...

Molentik posted:

You can find the interactive map here.

Re: Baltics; Latvia and Estonia were both members of the UNPO before the fall of the Soviet Union. The other dot in de Baltics represents Inkeri/Ingermanland.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Milo and POTUS posted:

Milo and POTUS posted:

Tei posted:

Can't the Chileans and Argentinians agree

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

Yugoslavia has never been behind the Iron Curtain, Serbia is almost 100% Orthodox, Italy needs to look up bluechew

goethe42 posted:

The North Cape - Cape Matan-Line doesn't touch Slovakia or Hungary and Poland/Serbia only barely, there are plenty of greek-catholics in Slovakia and Czechia, the Ottoman Empire included almost all of Hungary and parts of Austria, Czechia and Slovakia as well and even though the roman limes is more or less right, it is kind of misleading to include the UK(half) and Belgium(fully) into the "Wine countries", with a combined viticulture area of 1.300 ha and exclude, again, Czechia and Slovakia with around 42.000 ha of wine . It's a bad map.

Peanut President posted:

Afrikaaners being on that map of unrepresented people is a real

Cat Mattress posted:

It's better understood not as a map of unrepresentated people, but as a map of people who are allowed to create organizations to whine about being unrepresentated.

Peanut President posted:

Afrikaaners being on that map of unrepresented people is a real

Saladman posted:

I'm not really up on South African history but didn't the Afrikaaners spend like 100 years of being slaughtered and chased across southern Africa by the British? Maybe they joined in like, 1901.

Saladman posted:

I'm not really up on South African history but didn't the Afrikaaners spend like 100 years of being slaughtered and chased across southern Africa by the British? Maybe they joined in like, 1901.

Although on that line how'd they get from being the subject of literal murder camps to the point were Afrikaaners dominated the government of South Africa and set up their own not-quite-concentration-camp townships? I guess that's a kind of dumb question since like, Israel, I just don't know the timeline of South Africa and I could probably find out all these answers on Wikipedia.

Saladman posted:

Although on that line how'd they get from being the subject of literal murder camps to the point were Afrikaaners dominated the government of South Africa and set up their own not-quite-concentration-camp townships? I guess that's a kind of dumb question since like, Israel, I just don't know the timeline of South Africa and I could probably find out all these answers on Wikipedia.

Saladman posted:

I'm not really up on South African history but didn't the Afrikaaners spend like 100 years of being slaughtered and chased across southern Africa by the British? Maybe they joined in like, 1901.

Although on that line how'd they get from being the subject of literal murder camps to the point were Afrikaaners dominated the government of South Africa and set up their own not-quite-concentration-camp townships? I guess that's a kind of dumb question since like, Israel, I just don't know the timeline of South Africa and I could probably find out all these answers on Wikipedia.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted: