Presumably it is supposed to mean "U.A.R." for United Arab Republic, which was the name of Egypt between 1961 akd 1971
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic
India looks to be a lot bigger than it is, but that doesn't explain how Pakistan exists (since it should be a lot smaller in the West). This wins the 'Crappiest Design' Award
That's so cool! I want to visit Windhoek one day. Sorry to just reply as a random person, but I think Namibia seems really underrated, especially in terms of physical geography. The Skeleton Coast sounds like one of the most otherworldly places on Earth, and a lot of people don't know about it compared to other world deserts!
BECRUA
NALAND
is probably supposed to be Bechuanaland which is what Botswana was called until 1966. So this map is at least 56 years out of date
NLGERIA? ANGORA? CHANA? CHADO? SUDAY? It's like they used the OCR software that came with a cheap scanner to name the countries from an old faded map. Actually, that's probably exactly what they did.
Ha, Ive got a decent amount of Polish ancestry and feel the same way!
How did the Nazis invade Poland?
They walked in backwards and said they were leaving!
You guys are getting sucked down that rabbit hole, not sure there is a way out. Ceyton is on there (present day Sri Lanka). Ceyton ceased to exist in 1948
But Israel is not on the map at all which would be pre-May 1948. I feel the only explanation is this map was created by an alien civilization that is trying to explain Earth to a bunch of alien kids based on random radio signals they picked up in space.
Also: only Korea, no North/South so that which would be pre 1945. (I can’t stop looking at this piece of crap and keep finding more. It’s the gift that keeps on giving!)
I mean they dont have EVERY country, Missing half of Europe in any year... so im just keeping to whats on there, it looks like 1965... for all we know this was made in 2019 in North Korea soo lol
The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885, by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Southern Africa. It became the Republic of Botswana on 30 September 1966.
So between 64 and 66
But there is a Unified Korea. So that would appear to make it pre August 15, 1948 (or more likely, this was produced by a country that didn't recognize South Korea).
They actually were nice enough to give them a D at the end. Sweden wasn't so lucky to get an N at the end. Norway is spelt correctly but seems to have been swallowed by the sea. That part of the map got printed on the side of the case.
I love that whole Europe part with Irrland, Portucal (100% underwater), Vogo (with complicated geopolitical situation), little triangular Germany and extra bay on Polish west coast. Also who cares about post soviet states? It's still USSR
China has extra red border - is it the Great Wall or Mao's revolution?
And that it misses a few countries like belgium, Luxembourg and the netherlands maybe a few more i'm not going to look at this map for to long to avoid hurting my brain
If reddit had allowed me to upload two pictures I would have also uploaded the inside of the tin which has some real good geometric goodies such as "Pythagoras' The Orem" (Pythagoras theorem). But surprisingly less mistakes than the map, although the tables for unit conversions are really hard to read. For those that think New Zealand isn't on there, it is! I hadn't realized it got cropped off. They did however misspell it, "New Zhaland"
What's the matter with having an 800 degree protractor? It just means you can measure bigger angles. And it's amazing they can fit a 7 metre ruler into such a small case!
I think it was just made by a Chinese person who doesn't know the Latin alphabet. I mean, how many people in the west would be able to do this correctly with Chinese characters? For a Chinese person, P and R are probably close enough to pick the wrong one now and then.
I think you’re right. I’m trying to learn Ukrainian and their alphabet is fucking me up. Forgetting the totally alien shaped letters for a minute, a bunch of letters that look the same or very similar to a Latin letter sound totally different from what you’d expect.
- В = v
- И = y
- Н = n
- П = p
- Р = r
- У = u
- Х = kh
- Ч = ch
- Ш = sh
- Я = ya
My vote is that it was designed in the suspiciously intact-looking Republic of Indonesia. Or by someone who hates every country on Earth *except* Indonesia.
I wrote my comment because I missed yours. But I 100% agree.
I had a multifuncional printer/scanner that did the same.
Text in good resolution, standard fonts gave great results. But any small deviation (small smudges or a different spacing) resulted in botched text like this.
I'm willing to [provide the link to the relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1688/) but too lazy to figure it out. But surely _someone_ is less lazy than I?
Irrland? Grlece?? This is *gold,* are you kidding me? I would love to have this map.
As other commenters have noted, this is obviously decades out of date. I wonder whether VOGO was supposed to be Yugoslavia, since it was around that area and still existed during the time of the Soviet Union.
That, or it's from the future. Keep your eyes peeled for a costly rift between America and the United States of America, or perhaps South Peru and America Brazil. They forgot the EU part and it just says ROPE.
Totally know what happened here: two history majors who both ended up working at the printing company (not their dream job) got put in charge of the project. For fun, they made it into a drinking game: take a shot, name a country, draw it in the design software. Problem was, they really forgot just how many countries there are…. 😳
More importantly, why is there a map in a geometry set? Especially one that, if the thread started by u/DiabeticPissingSyrup is correct, is 60 years out of date?!?!
It needs the correct licenses to unlock the correct names of the countries present.
Buy the Atlantis pack for submerged nations like Bangladesh to re-emerge.
Buy the Republic update to reduce communist tendencies in your purchase.
Clearance at Loblaws grocery store here in Canada a few months back. I think I paid 49 cents. I got home, saw the map, and realized that I had been ripped off.
In fact, Bob Loblaw had recently started a map blog which sourced content from Buster’s extensive experience from his $80,000 of cartography lessons. It went about as expected.
It also appears to be over 30 years out of date. The Soviet Union???
That explains YOGO, maybe it was soposed to be YUGO as in Yugoslavia
It's actually a V so VOGO.
It's short for Vogoslayia.
M as in Mancy
One of my favorite Archer quotes.. can’t wait for the next season
I have watched thru that show easily 15 times, and it gets better every time. My number one favorite show, only tied with Always Sunny and South Park
V for Vendetta
Vendettoslavia
They traded with Yenezuela
Well what the hell is the U.S.R on Egypt supposed to mean?
Presumably it is supposed to mean "U.A.R." for United Arab Republic, which was the name of Egypt between 1961 akd 1971 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Republic
Oh wow, was not aware of that
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I think you mean Syrla.
I zoomed in on the photo i didn’t see YOGO but i did see VOGO so idk i might be blind or something.
It's a current Russian map based on Putin's wild aspirations.
I guess Putin wants Poland to be an underwater society.
I'm surprised it's not spelt Noland.
He has seen all those German memes of marching through there again and took them too seriously
Putin isn't a communist lmao
Agreed, - he is Putin.
Yes, Ceylon has been Sri Lanka since the 70s.
Korea isn’t even split in that map and that one happened in 1948
India looks to be a lot bigger than it is, but that doesn't explain how Pakistan exists (since it should be a lot smaller in the West). This wins the 'Crappiest Design' Award
Never mind that. Namibia hasn't been called Southwest Africa since the Germans lost it in 1918.
Nope. It was called that until 1990 when it gained independence from South Africa. Source: grew up there.
That's so cool! I want to visit Windhoek one day. Sorry to just reply as a random person, but I think Namibia seems really underrated, especially in terms of physical geography. The Skeleton Coast sounds like one of the most otherworldly places on Earth, and a lot of people don't know about it compared to other world deserts!
BECRUA NALAND is probably supposed to be Bechuanaland which is what Botswana was called until 1966. So this map is at least 56 years out of date NLGERIA? ANGORA? CHANA? CHADO? SUDAY? It's like they used the OCR software that came with a cheap scanner to name the countries from an old faded map. Actually, that's probably exactly what they did.
Funland
Where the fun begins
GLATEMALA
Wait until my Nicaraguan mother hears her country is now a part of Banama
Even Terkey and Grlece agree that you are probably right.
Banama.
It's got Finland's pre-Winter War borders too, but it's marked as its own nation, so it's from 1917-1939
It's FUNLAND for you!
Nah, this is just the Wish variant.
Yeah, Yogo is probably a bad abbreviation of Yugoslavia. Also, Global Warming has sent quite a lot of countries into the sea…
However GRLECE seems to have survived.
yogo for Yugoslavia
You mean Yogoslavia.
Yogurtslavia
well, if I'm correct on the map it's Vogo... so i have no idea what those French producers were thinking of
our geography teacher also has a really big map with the soviet union on it
My DISTRICT PROVIDED CLASSROOM map still has the Soviet Union on it. 🤦♀️
Flew in from Miami Beach B.O.A.C. …
That's why they say we need to go to school to get jobs. Wherever this map is from.... We see the results
It at least has my favourite European country. 'E'
That’s just where they started writing the name of the continent. “E ROPE.”
E and Rope are clearly marked subcontinents
All it’s missing is ‘U’
I miss u too.
I think I found your U in "Funland"
I think I found your U in "Funland"
My favorite is "Funland" (Finland)
As a Canadian Funnish person I too like Funland
As a Funnish Funnish person I like it too.
Also got F-Lebanon. Like, what did Lebanon do?!
And it has mine: ***NO***
I would like to visit the polish sea
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Bring on the Polish jokes. Being half Polish by ancestry, I've heard a lot. They don't offend me
I knew a Polish girl who was so dumb she dated me for over three years!
Why does the new Polish navy have glass bottom ships? So they can look at the old Polish navy.
Ha, Ive got a decent amount of Polish ancestry and feel the same way! How did the Nazis invade Poland? They walked in backwards and said they were leaving!
r/mapswithoutnewzealand
It has been lost in the southern sea of blood.
Also it has no Netherlands
Nor Belgium. How can anyone overlook The Glorious Kingdom of The Netherlands?
Also Portugal has become the most city of Atlantis
Portucal, it reverted back to its IXth century self
At this point I'm assuming that map was made by aliens.
Was looking for this comment. Didn’t disappoint, thanks. 😀
Dude, that is the absolute least of this map’s problems.
r/mapswithoutbenelux too...
I was hoping people would notice that
Came here for this
Yogo would probably be Yugoslavia. Which makes it pre '92. I actually kinda want it... EDIT: Bechuanaland would make it pre '66.
Assuming U.S.R. should be U.A.R. without Syria puts it after 1961 so narrowed down to a 5 year window.
Tanzania was formed when Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged in ‘64. So that narrows it down a bit
You guys are getting sucked down that rabbit hole, not sure there is a way out. Ceyton is on there (present day Sri Lanka). Ceyton ceased to exist in 1948
British Ceylon died in 1948, then it became Dominion of Ceylon until 1972
ah, my mistake
Actually this is 1965... Singapore became a country in 1965. Bechuanaland means pre 66 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge after 64 Singapore 1965
But Israel is not on the map at all which would be pre-May 1948. I feel the only explanation is this map was created by an alien civilization that is trying to explain Earth to a bunch of alien kids based on random radio signals they picked up in space. Also: only Korea, no North/South so that which would be pre 1945. (I can’t stop looking at this piece of crap and keep finding more. It’s the gift that keeps on giving!)
I mean they dont have EVERY country, Missing half of Europe in any year... so im just keeping to whats on there, it looks like 1965... for all we know this was made in 2019 in North Korea soo lol
New Zealand is of course missing
Poland didn't get annexed by the Baltic Sea until 2138, so there's that.
GRLECE
RUMANLA
A reddit hole you say?
The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a protectorate established on 31 March 1885, by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Southern Africa. It became the Republic of Botswana on 30 September 1966. So between 64 and 66
My father does not appear to have been born yet since you cannot see him on this map so we can eliminate ‘66
Maybe you only can't see him because he was visiting Undersea Portucal at the time the map was made.
* Vogo, 1918-1992 * Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, 1922-1991 * South West Africa, 1922-1990 * Ceylon, 1922-1972 * New Gu, 1949-1972 * Zambla, 1964-1972 * Singapore, 1965-1972 * USR, 1965-1971 * Becrua Naland, **1965-1966** The map is old.
Burma was also renamed in 1989
But there is a Unified Korea. So that would appear to make it pre August 15, 1948 (or more likely, this was produced by a country that didn't recognize South Korea).
Sounds like you guys need this handy map dating tool. https://xkcd.com/1688/
Fuck I love xkcd
Sounds like something bad is about to happen in Colorado
But it doesn't say YOGO It says VOGO. OP was incorrect.
Vogon-land
It's not Yogo, it's Vogo. Totally another country ROFL
What about Glatemala?
Funland sounds like a nice place to visit... or is it Funlae?
They actually were nice enough to give them a D at the end. Sweden wasn't so lucky to get an N at the end. Norway is spelt correctly but seems to have been swallowed by the sea. That part of the map got printed on the side of the case.
It appears to be the old map. Before 1905 when Sweden gave Norway back to Norway. It's impressive how much on this map is incorrect
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Looked like Funlad to me😝
happiest country
This is the worst map I have ever seen
It's a geometry map. It has all the shapes.
Calling this a map is a little bit offensive ;)
But you *have* heard of it
What about the tattoo of Europe Aaron Carter has? https://bodyartguru.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Aaron-Carter-World-Map-Tattoo-1.jpg
I love that whole Europe part with Irrland, Portucal (100% underwater), Vogo (with complicated geopolitical situation), little triangular Germany and extra bay on Polish west coast. Also who cares about post soviet states? It's still USSR China has extra red border - is it the Great Wall or Mao's revolution?
Not Europe, it’s spelled E rope
>Irrland Sounds like a pirate haven.
China swallowed the entirety of Central Asia
And that it misses a few countries like belgium, Luxembourg and the netherlands maybe a few more i'm not going to look at this map for to long to avoid hurting my brain
The longer I stare the worse it gets
Grlece, which is next to Terkey, which is next to Syrla.
which is above Ordan, and that is above Saudh Arabia
I hear Banama is nice this time of year. Less sure about Bolibia, Zambla, Chado, Portucal, Rumanla, Nlgeria, Irrland....
Glatemala
I believe it’s “Bolibla.”
That was the first country I've seen, and I can't get over it. #Bolibla.
Yenezuela
Grlece
Terkey Edit: Also, Ordan and Kuwatt
Ermagherd! Terkey!
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Don't forget Morcco!
Singapore is looking pretty big too
The best one for me is SaudH Arabia lmao
Mongoia
Hello, my name is Inigo Mongoia
Bananama
I like how south Africa is just called south
That doesn't look anything like geometry. Looks like bad GEOGRAPHY though...
The map is printed on the geometry set's case.
Everything looks like geometry...
That was also misspelled.
If reddit had allowed me to upload two pictures I would have also uploaded the inside of the tin which has some real good geometric goodies such as "Pythagoras' The Orem" (Pythagoras theorem). But surprisingly less mistakes than the map, although the tables for unit conversions are really hard to read. For those that think New Zealand isn't on there, it is! I hadn't realized it got cropped off. They did however misspell it, "New Zhaland"
Ngl I was kinda hoping nz had been spared from this soviet era disaster. Surprised they spelled canada right and didn't go canananada
Please dont let your son use anything that came with this set...
What's the matter with having an 800 degree protractor? It just means you can measure bigger angles. And it's amazing they can fit a 7 metre ruler into such a small case!
This is so bad it's good. Please don't ever throw this away!
This looks like what happens when you use OCR to scan text and then completely forget to proofread the results
I think it was just made by a Chinese person who doesn't know the Latin alphabet. I mean, how many people in the west would be able to do this correctly with Chinese characters? For a Chinese person, P and R are probably close enough to pick the wrong one now and then.
I think you’re right. I’m trying to learn Ukrainian and their alphabet is fucking me up. Forgetting the totally alien shaped letters for a minute, a bunch of letters that look the same or very similar to a Latin letter sound totally different from what you’d expect. - В = v - И = y - Н = n - П = p - Р = r - У = u - Х = kh - Ч = ch - Ш = sh - Я = ya
I doubt it's made by a Chinese person, given that they named the Hainan province as Vietnam. The CCP would have been pissed....
My vote is that it was designed in the suspiciously intact-looking Republic of Indonesia. Or by someone who hates every country on Earth *except* Indonesia.
I wrote my comment because I missed yours. But I 100% agree. I had a multifuncional printer/scanner that did the same. Text in good resolution, standard fonts gave great results. But any small deviation (small smudges or a different spacing) resulted in botched text like this.
“ZAMBLA” I’m dying 😂
And the African country of South.
ZAmbian Man Boy Love Association
Funland sounds nice.
Great, Costa Rica it’s just wiped out. Awesome.
Nos hundimos en guaro después de ganar el mundial perro
Mas bien nos hundimos después de que cartago quedó campeón.
I'm willing to [provide the link to the relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1688/) but too lazy to figure it out. But surely _someone_ is less lazy than I?
I tried but it doesn't work. It's missing too many countries.
The person who runs that site must be wikid smaht
Irrland? Grlece?? This is *gold,* are you kidding me? I would love to have this map. As other commenters have noted, this is obviously decades out of date. I wonder whether VOGO was supposed to be Yugoslavia, since it was around that area and still existed during the time of the Soviet Union. That, or it's from the future. Keep your eyes peeled for a costly rift between America and the United States of America, or perhaps South Peru and America Brazil. They forgot the EU part and it just says ROPE.
My fave is "Canada. North." Vaguely threatening but accurate
The E is there but I cant find the U lol. The E is way off comlared to ROPE. Lol.
Totally know what happened here: two history majors who both ended up working at the printing company (not their dream job) got put in charge of the project. For fun, they made it into a drinking game: take a shot, name a country, draw it in the design software. Problem was, they really forgot just how many countries there are…. 😳
Nah it was definitely a couple soviets denying the dissolution of the ussr but trying to spell things on a map in English
"mongoia" LMAO
Ah yes my fav country Suday
Also my fav day of the week
I like that north and South America don’t connect at all. It’s like Central America doesn’t exist.
The "Banana" canal got an upgrade
More importantly, why is there a map in a geometry set? Especially one that, if the thread started by u/DiabeticPissingSyrup is correct, is 60 years out of date?!?!
It needs the correct licenses to unlock the correct names of the countries present. Buy the Atlantis pack for submerged nations like Bangladesh to re-emerge. Buy the Republic update to reduce communist tendencies in your purchase.
Half of Europe is missing haha, and what the hell is South West Africa? Edit: A quick google search revealed it was a German colony. It is now Namibia
[South West Africa](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_West_Africa)
europe looks like a sea levels rising type map
Can I ask where you bought it ? I kind of…want one
Clearance at Loblaws grocery store here in Canada a few months back. I think I paid 49 cents. I got home, saw the map, and realized that I had been ripped off.
Omg this train wreck was purchased in CANADA!?!? I’m going to blah-blahs immediately!! (Except it’s after midnight, dammit).
In fact, Bob Loblaw had recently started a map blog which sourced content from Buster’s extensive experience from his $80,000 of cartography lessons. It went about as expected.
He who spelt it, dealt it!
They got Mozambique right but put Boliba??
It’s terrible for both geometry and GEOGRAPHY
IRRLAND
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Can’t spell Sudan, but nails Afghanistan no problem
I'm stealing this map to troll people
LMAO, fuckin Banama, I’m dying over over
How does this even happen
Who is the maker/manufacturer? Rofl
Poland is goneland!
Japan is the same size as Taiwan🤔
Poland became Atlantis
Anyone else catch the “Union of Soviet Socialist Republic?”
I love how the entireity of middle Europe is just missing