If you remove Russia, this is a strip that covers almost half of the remaining land mass. Not impressed.
On a curved surface.
For some reason I read this as the letter T and I got so confused 🤔
Same, I suspect it is because “I” looks like T when you read it fast in Lemmy font.
Never saw that before.
*with their anglicized names
India, for example, has been traditionally referred to as Bharat (depending on language root) domestically and among the 100s of languages and dialects used there the name India is never used. Similar to Deutschland and Germany.
What about in the second official language of India, English? :P
The constitution uses “India” in English.
But yes they’re the English names…
It does out of a sense of pragmatism rather than any deeper association to national identity. English is not an indigineous language to India and was enforced upon the populace for a few hundred years. Indian people do refer to themselves as Indian when speaking English, but not when they’re speaking an actual Indian language, which I assume is similar for countries like Germany etc.
Did you think someone was unaware that India’s use of English stems from colonialism? Because otherwise I don’t understand what you’re saying.
The purpose of my comment (to clarify) was that English is a commonly used (even official) language in India, and that the name when using that language is India, rather than Bhata, because your comment to me implied that “India” just wasn’t used by the citizens of India when conversing with fellow citizens at all.
Did you know?
All countries are in a straight line?
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“Fraction of a dot”
All countries are in a straight line. If you make it wide enough.
Or long enough, as it’s on a spheroid.
Or use the proper projection.
Yeah, like the Euler Projection.
“Oh, I like this guy!”
lol, accurate but a bit difficult to see a lot of continuity.
The linked latitude longitude graph looked like it was all in a pretty straight lines though.
Or if you use a suitable projection. I’m pretty sure you can pick some really wild projection and make it work with another letter too.
Or if you use a suitable projection
over on the non-federated link aggregation site, posts like this would be in /r/mapporncirclejerk, not the main map sub :/
It’s actually a curved line
While true, this line is pretty narrow considering it is only showing one hemisphere.
Côte d’Ivorie
It’s weird they use this as their “English-language” name but I don’t really have a point, just hoping to watch a thread become a comment shit show
Côte d’Ivoire
It makes just as much sense as calling it Türkiye.
Türkiye
That’s nothing! All countries starting with a letter can be mapped onto the surface of an oblate spheroid.
That’s nothing, did you know that you can color the world map so that no adjacent regions share the same color using only four colors
Ialestine?
Iaza.
That’s easily the case isn’t it, the only question is how much distance is there between these two lines.
the earth is round
Found the glober
Guys, guys, this is for real, I just check the wikipedia !
More useless and interesting map facts, please!
Aye.
Where is Idaho or Illinois?
The Emancipated and Fully Independent People’s Republics of Iowa and Illinois continue to be unrecognized by the UN. But the revolution marches on, comrades.
What about Ilaska?
You mean West Canada?
Country and state are interchangeable except when they ain’t!
Last I checked, those aren’t countries 😁
Not yet but just wait a few years.
Last I‘ve checked time traveling isn’t real but here you are, with an account created in the year 2444.
Why do you hate America?
How long have you got?
Where to begin?..
