Now this is a cool world map!

[Archae]

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Kinda puts things in perspective, dunnit?

[DarkTirade]

2. Hold that thing steady or else you're gonna send someone into epileptic shock...

Whoa... the colors, man... the colors...

[graywarrior]

3. Wicked cool!

[ThatsMyBarack]

4. I colored in a world map that way once.

Unfortunately, so did some other copycat in my grade. :grr:

[Archae]

5. I just noticed two mistakes.

Alaska has it's state flag, even though Alaska is part of the US.

And where's Hawaii?

[Deja Q]

6. And much like cockroaches, for every 1 found, there's 100 hidden elsewhere...

Not to compare countries to cockroaches, of course, but the point is there's bound to be more than those 2 errors...

Of course, maybe nobody considered Hawaii part of America and maybe Alaska seceded...?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. They've left out quite a few Pacific islands

larger than Hawaii:
Tasmania (arguably 'Pacific')
New Caledonia
Vitu Levi (part of Fiji)

And they've allows Indonesia to annex Papua New Guinea - the eastern half og New Guinea ought to be like this:

[yellowdogintexas]

that whole section of map just didn't make it.

also what's up with the weird blue bar stretching from Finland to Japan? and why is China taking up so much of the map?

[petronius]

14. That's Russia...(nt)

[Deja Q]

17. True. There's also a thin black line (on the right side) separating both countries...

It's drawn like an oddly shaped middle finger.

[petronius]

20. China's giving Russia the high hard one, eh?

Seems to be an appropriate geographic metaphor...

[yellowdogintexas]

9. If Alaska gets its own flag, then so should Texas..the only state to ever

be an independent nation .

If this map were larger, all 50 states could have their flags or seals.
anyone else notice

[hobbit709]

11. Hawaii is the only state that was a kingdom

1810-1893 with formal diplomatic relations with the U.S.

[ellisonz]

23. And then the White Man stole it...

[Doc_Technical]

19. Au contraire my dear yellowdogintexas,

California was also a independent nation for a brief time.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. I did not know that California was an independent nation.

the things you learn on this website

[UTUSN]

8. The anti-"Imagine" map? n/t

[insanity]

10. I think I see Poland, but what about New Zealend?

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. NZ is there - a bit 'fat' , but it's there (nt)

[Deja Q]

18. I thought only Americans were fat?

(looks down and cries)

[bertha katzenengel]

12. I love it. I especially like how they did Alaska.

:bounce: Thanks for posting this!

[hellbound-liberal]

15. Are you from Alaska?

[bertha katzenengel]

16. No. I just dig the Alaskan flag.

:7

[XemaSab]

21. The Alaskan flag is fouled up

:shrug:

[skygazer]

24. That is cool but I like this one better

Kind of nice twist to our usual Eurocentric view of things.