Phlegmish posted:

China's is the result of the one-child policy combined with lingering patriarchal norms, of course.

What is going on in the Caucasus, differential migration?

redleader posted:

kind of remarkable that it's >1 basically everywhere in the world. wouldn't that show up in demographics?

drk posted:

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

heres a map to distract from blut's weird meltdown

FreudianSlippers posted:

Every American is a sandwich

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Oh I can't read.

Sweeper posted:

Bad map, MA is massholes

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

In 2024, every area in the South that voted against secession, even the places that were savaged by irregulars, even those that sent men to fight for the Union, are proud of their Confederate heritage

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

SlothfulCobra posted:

The way that big cities sprawl out, it's pretty easy for them to end up sprawling their influence all the way over to the coast. It can be even blurrier when a city is pretty close to the sea and has a big river going up into it that is a direct connection, and maybe at the point where the river enters the city it's too salty to drink, so arguably the river actually meets the sea is further inland. Philidelphia is a coastal city by that route. I think arguably London and Washington DC could be like that as well.

Although South Korea is trying right now to move the capital to a place further inland, and a new fake city doesn't have sprawl yet, so no metropolitan area extending out to the coast. https://www.architectmagazine.com/d...-architecture_o

And that leads to these maps:

Brawnfire posted:

That may be taking things too littorally

Platystemon posted:

Saladman posted:

Ah, wasn't familiar with that meme format, even after Googling it.

Guavanaut posted:

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

My favorite grocery chain is ShopRite, which is not one chain but a cooperative of 50 different chains, all of which use the same name. Some are large, some are small. All are ShopRite. They even own a few stores themselves.

https://www.shoprite.com/sm/pickup/rsid/3000/meetourmembers

Look at all these different families, it's like Renaissance Italy

mobby_6kl posted:

Air Skwirl posted:

i know I say things people don't like sometimes, but do people really want to get me? I don't want to get other people.

Platystemon posted:

“The US if it had natural borders”

Eiba posted:

I was actually reflecting on how interesting it was that Japan was the only entirely non-European country in this map that colors in countries all over the globe.

BonHair posted:

That map needs a date. I'm pretty sure the Danish dispute was our lengthy war with Canada, which was resolved last year I think.
Unless you want to count my claim on "Southern Sweden".

In a couple of years, we're gonna have a dispute over Greenland with USA, but that's all hypothetical right now

Muscle Tracer posted:

Why is Antarctica labeled "EMO", upside down?

Phlegmish posted:

I don't think this is really true outside of North America, where their variety of English really is remarkably uniform outside of a few exceptions, for typical New World reasons. Outside of that, if you're a non-native speaker accustomed to Received Pronunciation and/or the standard sitcom American accent, you might struggle to understand Irishpeople or Australians, or even people from certain parts of England. That's not getting into Indian English, or the English used as a lingua franca in parts of Africa. And that's not getting into the dozens of English-based creoles which may or may not exist on a continuum with English proper.

drk posted:

dear nordic countries, please get cooler names

jeebus bob posted:

People still think about Whitewater?

Subjunctive posted:

the isolated southern Ontario part is excellent

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I always thought moose were made in small-scale local workshops.

Tei posted:

USA should pay for the green line construction, imo

Angry Salami posted:

Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia in 1975, not the UK.

Saladman posted:

They did a passable job making a map that is suitable for printing back in the days before color printing was readily accessible.

For a modern map, it is... super lovely, and even for an older map it has a lot of unnecessary mess. Like why are all those tiny cities mentioned? Does anyone actually care that Naxos (population in 1450: probably like 10 guys + a goat) is labeled? Maybe it's relevant for the text but sweet chart clutter Jesus, split that map into multiple different graphics. That would go well as a textbook example of excessive labeling.

OddObserver posted:

Also if you want "settle Jews in the middle of nowhere" ideas, you don't need fiction, since Birobidzhan is a thing.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

The cost of living of Hawaii is 75% higher than Florida. You have to be pretty drat rich for that not to matter. Also, Florida being popular with old people makes it more popular with old people, who can create entire towns where the minimum age is like 65 and there's even less of a risk of having your views challenged.

redleader posted:

that's the 3% of responders who give joke answers. from every poll i've seen, there seems to be a consistent 3% of the population who respond with the silly answers, to the point where i'm suspicious of polls that do not have this 3% group