Where is Idaho or Illinois?
The Emancipated and Fully Independent People’s Republics of Iowa and Illinois continue to be unrecognized by the UN. But the revolution marches on, comrades.
What about Ilaska?
You mean West Canada?
Country and state are interchangeable except when they ain’t!
Last I checked, those aren’t countries 😁
Why do you hate America?
Where to begin?..
How long have you got?
Not yet but just wait a few years.
Aye.
To be honest, everything is in a straight line if wide enough or in the correct map projection…
If you remove Russia, this is a strip that covers almost half of the remaining land mass. Not impressed.
Russia benefits heavily from this map projection
Really, it’s this size:
fair enough should have said projected land mass but I think the fact that strip goes somewhat diagonal suggests that the total area distortion inside the strip and outside it (the lower side) will likely be similar (since this particular projection distorts more around the poles as far as I remember)
Fair!
Côte d’Ivorie
It’s weird they use this as their “English-language” name but I don’t really have a point, just hoping to watch a thread become a comment shit show
It makes just as much sense as calling it Türkiye.
Türkiye
I’m sorry. I don’t see the character difference. What did I miss?
You spelled it right but pronounced it wrong
The 2 dots on the “u”, I think they are mandatory in English too (not so sure, though)
Yes it’s mandatory by law, there are penal sanctions and chance to get blacklisted by Türkiye and Erdoğan if you don’t abide.
I’m too punctilious, I see it now
Côte d’Ivoire
They also exist together on a sphere.
That’s nothing! All countries starting with a letter can be mapped onto the surface of an oblate spheroid.
That’s nothing, did you know that you can color the world map so that no adjacent regions share the same color using only four colors
Did you know?
All countries are in a straight line?
Please send bitcoin, save the dream 😎
“Fraction of a dot”
For some reason I read this as the letter T and I got so confused 🤔
Same, I suspect it is because “I” looks like T when you read it fast in Lemmy font.
Never saw that before.
And the quotes enhance that effect, “I” now being wider at the top rather than the bottom.
All countries are in a straight line. If you make it wide enough.
While true, this line is pretty narrow considering it is only showing one hemisphere.
over on the non-federated link aggregation site, posts like this would be in /r/mapporncirclejerk, not the main map sub :/
Or long enough, as it’s on a spheroid.
Or use the proper projection.
Yeah, like the Euler Projection.
Oh wow! All countries are in the same line!!!
lol, accurate but a bit difficult to see a lot of continuity.
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The linked latitude longitude graph looked like it was all in a pretty straight lines though.
It’s actually a curved line
Or if you use a suitable projection. I’m pretty sure you can pick some really wild projection and make it work with another letter too.
Or if you use a suitable projection
Guys, guys, this is for real, I just check the wikipedia !
That’s not a line, it’s a fucking rectangle.
1: on the premise of being technically correct it is not because it’s just two parallel lines that may or may not be continuous on a globe
2: being less literally minded you can either fill in the the negative space to make a thick line or draw a line through the middle, though as ominous ocelot points out lower:
And all countries share a common border if you fold the map right 😉
More useless and interesting map facts, please!
Ialestine?
Iaza.
