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Map Fail
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If geography is prose, maps are iconography. - Lennart Meri
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mapfail · 12 days ago
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Pre-WW2 map
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mapfail · 5 months ago
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The new tariffs have dramatic effects.
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mapfail · 5 months ago
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This map from a South Park episode
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mapfail · 8 months ago
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Europe according to Romanian geography textbook
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mapfail · 11 months ago
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BBC not knowing where Romania is.
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mapfail · 11 months ago
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The UK, as seen by an Italian school textbook.
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mapfail · 1 year ago
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Map showing twin towns of Schleswig, with Kosovo displayed as part of Albania
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mapfail · 1 year ago
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The Saudi Arabian 20 Riyal banknote has Tajikistan being part of China.
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mapfail · 2 years ago
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Map at the airport in Rovaniemi, Finland.
by u/GriffinFTW
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mapfail · 2 years ago
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Map of Europe from a Lithuanian textbook
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mapfail · 2 years ago
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A map of Ottoman Empire, United Germany, Poland and Central Europe in 17th century from the latest Turkish 11th grade high school book.
via u/Qahlel
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mapfail · 2 years ago
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Submerged Estonia and Kaliningrad annexed by Lithuania in a French newspaper.
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mapfail · 2 years ago
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The map that got The Barbie Movie banned in Vietnam: Yes, that is China's Nine-Dash Line off the coast of "Asia
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mapfail · 2 years ago
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Europe and surroundings according to Turkish Airlines.
by @theologymusic
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mapfail · 2 years ago
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From an Italian newspaper.
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mapfail · 2 years ago
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Map made in the 19th century about the North American colonies.
John Bartholomew was a Scottish cartographer in the XIX century. The map shows what the North American colonies looked like in 1715 along with erroneous geographic notions of the period.
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mapfail · 3 years ago
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Taliban government has inaugurated World globe with distorted Indian map in Kabul.
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