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Who’d have thought that Isidore of Seville was actually a topologist fifteen hundred years ahead of his time

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Now that’s interesting.

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Interesting that this map does have Palestine (presumably the West Bank and east Jerusalem) but doesn’t consider Gaza part of Palestine.

That’s quite a unique combination.

Edit: looking at Azerbaijan, I think they just focus on the biggest landmass and ignore exclaves.

Edit2: the fine print actually says that they ignore exclaves, except for Malaysia.

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Maybe it’s just considering de facto control? Israel currently controls the whole Egypt-Palestine border, so there’s no land controlled by any form of Palestinian government that has a border with Egypt

Edit: or it’s an artifact of the “exclaves have otherwise been ignored” part, if the West Bank is considered the core and Gaza is an exclave of that

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Like all maps, this one needs a date. For example, Canada and Denmark now share a land border (Hans island)

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Bolivia shares a border with Argentina. They got that wrong on this map.

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And Paraguay does not share a border with Chile. Some South American shenanigans to be sure.

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It’s all rightfully Paraguay anyway. /s

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France has a land border with Brazil - in fact, it’s its longest border with any country. But I realize that non-contiguous countries pose quite a challenge for this type of layout.

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France also borders… Canada. (They have a little island on the east coast)

Denmark (greenland) and Russia also border Canada.

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proof that russia is just a buffer state between norway and north korea

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