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      I was gonna say.

      Want to see the map of Asia that most US-Americans could draw.

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        Nobody’s asking anyone to draw a map from memory. They’re asking a news channel to put in the 5 seconds of googling it takes to procure an accurate map.

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                    Russia
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            Iran     | China | Japan
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        Saudi Arabia | India | Vietnam
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        Basically China, India and Japan with a Vietnam somewhere but they don’t want to talk about it.

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        China, India, Vietnam, Russia, Australia.

        Probably Japan.

        Maybe Tibet. Maybe Pakistan. Not sure about Afghanistan.

        Australia would include Papua, Vietnam would get the rest of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, you name it. It was a big war, must’ve been a big place. Who even knows what countries are there? It’s like the Balkans of Asia. India would look mostly the same, a bit bigger.

        If Pakistan is included it probably would include Afghanistan as Afganistan is definitely in the Middle East and not in Asia, but Pakistan (If they remember it, with the weird border ritual video that became so popular) is so closely associated with India that there’s a chance it’s included. Maybe India gets Pakistan while Pakistan ends up around Iran.

        China gets a lot of Kazakhstan, all of Mongolia and some of Russia. It’s possible some random chunk of western China gets the name Tibet. Russia stays mostly the same, whether they or China get the Korean peninsula is a toss-up. There’s a decent chance the Russian border just gets moved way north.

        Depending on who you ask, Korea might also be included as it’s own thing. But it might end up in a weird place like Vladivostok, the Kola peninsula, or some place in China.

        There’s a decent chance they know most of the main islands of Japan and it ends up looking a little cursed but mostly in the right place. I’m thinking it would either stop short of Hokkaido or seize Sakhalin.

        Central Asia doesn’t exist.

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        China and India are about right, Japan’s south of Taiwan, Vietnam is labeled South Korea, all the other islands are “you get the idea” squiggles. The rest is a wash. Anyone who remembers the Philippines is in the Armed Forces. Anyone who can place Thailand encrypts their hard drive.

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      Exactly. Maps are free. Joke maps are also free. So instead of paying money, and somebody taking that money and assuring you this is the right thing. You get a free map, that might be a joke, but you don’t know it’s a joke cuz you don’t know the map. And we get some funnies

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      Have you ever tried drawing a map from memory? It’s interesting, what you do and don’t remember and why. That’s why this is funny - what’s salient to the other person and what’s not. No American would want Florida to be bigger, for instance.

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      I’m guessing this was an in-the-nutshell style meme, and they just didn’t know enough to sense the ironic oversimplification.

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      If you’re going off memory. Where did this image come from? Did the channel make it or did they grab it off a search?

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      Can you explain to the non-US citizen the split in Michigan? If you want I can explain the split in Lorraine, France in exchange (^_^)

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        The state of Michigan exists on both sides of the great lakes (which are effectively freshwater oceans, containing their own maritime economies, marine salvage operations, maritime weather and even famous lost ships) so there’s the Michigan mainland which contains major cities like Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, but then there’s the “upper penninsula” which is heavily wooded and some consider a continuation of the “north woods” of Wisconsin. Map for context:

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          Thanks.

          As promise, here is the explanation for the split in Lorraine: Lorraine is a region in easter France that is culturally split in two. One part is of Frank culture, like Paris and French tradition, the other as a culture much closer to Germany, Luxembourg and german speaking countries. It also as a germanic tradition as local languages used to be some german dialect rather that french dialect.
          This part of Lorraine which is roughly the Moselle county used to be called germanic Lorraine but this term started to be ambiguous when France lost Alsace, the very famously german-cultured region at the border of France and Germany, and the Moselle county in 1871.

          After the great war, Alsace-Moselle was part of France again, but as some of its social laws where better than France at the time, it was decided to keep them in place and not to apply the laws that where voted in France when it was part of German. Because of that, today Lorraine is separated not only culturally but also by laws in place. Go to Metz, on the germanic part, and have two more non-work holiday as in Nancy in the french. In Nancy and Metz, social contributions are calculated differently and important laws for France are not applied no the german side : Church and State are not separated there.
          Of course, French State work on every day following that law but in Moselle and Alsace, men of worship can be pay with public money.
          All that with having Nancy and Metz separated by 50 km and both being part of Lorraine.

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        The very top parts of Texas and new York that touch are both part of Michigan. The disconnected bit in Texas is called the Upper Peninsula, and that’s basically Canada if you ask people (or listen to them talk).

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    Was this a news report from the future on the signing of the Treaty of 2034 that ended the second US Civil War?

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    As a Canadian I would cut out part of Texas at the top for “Americans that think they are Canadian”

    But it’s pretty accurate

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    If you had to divide the mainland US into 4 “regions” this is probably the best way to split it.

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      I contest this by pointing out that Arizona is basically the grumpy younger sibling of California and is not allowed to hang out with Texas.

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        the four corners states all going to go live with the pacific side of the family except for Utah who thinks the devil’s lettuce has corrupted them all

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          Yeah, we also dont really want Utah cause well who does. The US could collapse into a warlord era and Utah would at best be turned into a Neutral we dont want it ground.

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    I like how the New York, Florida, and Texas tristate border still makes my homeland of western Kentucky instantly recognizable by the weird little nubbin that is the Jackson Purchase.

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      Same with the harsh 90* angle in the CA/TX border. That’s Utah, baby! 😎