• apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    Shockingly as well, if you take all of the 50+ countries in Africa and arrange them carefully, they fit pretty much perfectly inside Africa.

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I love when I’m talking to an American and they try and tell me that I " just don’t understand how big Texas is". So then I tell them that if Texas were in Australia, it would only be the fifth largest state, sixth if you include NT (which you should, their lack of statehood while having the largest percentage population of Indigenous Australians is telling).

      Map of Texas overlayed over Australia, indicating it's smaller size compared with most Australian states.

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        Wow, great map. Thanks, really shows some perspective.

        Also, you should qualify that with “some” Americans. Some Americans have no concept of the US, like where the bulk of the population lives (65% live between Georgia and Boston), how empty the mid-west/west is, etc.

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          I’m not sure where you think I said all Americans think, or say, this. But it is a phrase that only an American would say. You aren’t going to hear many Australians say it my friend.

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    I’ve been burned before by these.

    I checked it thoroughly for a smaller Africa inside it before taking it seriously.

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    I’m so fucking done with maps lumping Central Europe into Eastern Europe. Like you wanna tell me that Austria, Greece, Finland are somehow not eastern but Czechia is. Or how sometimes the Baltics are not eastern but Hungary is.

    In this thread: westerners telling me what I should think. Well gee, next time maybe tone down the imperialism a bit.

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        And yet few people would argue the same of Murmansk, mostly north of Helsinki. We really need to consider history here, as well. Specifically which side of the iron curtain they were on.

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          I think you might be mixing different things here, because it’s fucked up shit

          Northern Europe: British isles, Scandinavia, Finland, Baltics

          Nordics: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Faraoe islands

          Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark

          Scandinavian peninsula: Sweden, Norway, North-western Finland

          Fennoscandia: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Murmansk oblast, parts of Karelia and Leningrad oblasts

          And there’s more stupid definitions for differently divided areas because fuck you

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      Typical Europeans: colonizing this post about Africa to make it about themselves instead. \s

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      I mean, I am fucking done with maps portraying Europe as a continent. It is called Eurasia, you just like feeling extra special but geographically you are not 🤪

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      I’ve never heard anyone claim the Baltics are not Eastern Europe. Then again, I’m on a different continent.

      As for the rest, it’s all down to which side they were on/put in during the Cold War.

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      Austria is literally lumped into “Eastern Europe” on this map lol

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          I don’t understand - Greece, EE and Austria are all clearly overlaid in top of each other in the same space. It makes no sense

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            They labelled those parts of the connected landmass with those separate labels so people wouldn’t complain that some parts didn’t belong to the culturally arbitrary grouping.

            The point of the map is to demonstrate that Africa is larger than all of those geopolitically relevant areas, and those connected bits fit into the space so it was included. Don’t think too much about it.

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        I mean there is, its the old Soviet block countries, its just not really relevant anymore.