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Wrong Map of Europe

June 11, 2024 — 9 minute read — geography I recently came across this map of Europe in a Discord memes channel: At first glance, it didn’t seem to be anything special, but why was it posted in a memes channel? I took a closer look. Even if you’re not super familiar with European geography, you’ll probably find something… off about it.

The part marked as Catalonia is roughly in the location of Basque Country, an autonomous region of Spain Sevilla is in the wrong place Cagliari and Palermo, Italy, are swapped The Balearic Islands are listed as “Illes Allears” instead of “Illes Balears” Cordily (an island in the Mediterranean) doesn’t exist The second number in the scale is 100x what it should be ( comparison) The numbers for the parallels are probably wrong too I don’t think the projection is actually the Gall-Peters Orthographic Projection Algeria isn’t as wide as it should be, bringing Tunisia farther west than it should be The capital of Tunisia is marked as “ Carthago ”, when it should be Tunis Malta is missing (see C3) Volgograd should be west of Ukraine, outside the scope of this map (it possibly should be listed as Murmansk) Oulu, Tampere, and Turku are listed by their Swedish names (Uleåborg, Tammerfors, and Åbo, respectively) Tampere and Turku (Tammerfors and Åbo) have their locations swapped Lulea and Umea, Sweden are switched “ Koskenkorva ” is not a city Leningrad is the former name of St. Petersburg, not a city to its northwest

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