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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why doesn’t the larger continent simply eat the smaller ones?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give it a few hundred million years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Was thinking just this, hahahaha!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Are they stupid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The "other ones" are not continents!

I'm tired of seeing all the diverse countries of Africa being lumped together as if they were homogenous.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So much land to ~~exploit~~ explore. Explore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You explore land, you expand your empire, and then it all kind of gets fuzzy and controversial after that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

So much land to scramble for.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Explore for exploitation.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shockingly as well, if you take all of the 50+ countries in Africa and arrange them carefully, they fit pretty much perfectly inside Africa.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Funny how comparing countries to continents works, amiright?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

All sorts of fun to be had overlying various things. I guess Africa is about 2 Russias in size.

Pic of maps overlaid

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love when I'm talking to an American and they try and tell me that I " just don't understand how big Texas is". So then I tell them that if Texas were in Australia, it would only be the fifth largest state, sixth if you include NT (which you should, their lack of statehood while having the largest percentage population of Indigenous Australians is telling).

Map of Texas overlayed over Australia, indicating it's smaller size compared with most Australian states.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wow, great map. Thanks, really shows some perspective.

Also, you should qualify that with "some" Americans. Some Americans have no concept of the US, like where the bulk of the population lives (65% live between Georgia and Boston), how empty the mid-west/west is, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure where you think I said all Americans think, or say, this. But it is a phrase that only an American would say. You aren't going to hear many Australians say it my friend.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Could even be true if big.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

The UK: “This is not what we voted for!”

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been burned before by these.

I checked it thoroughly for a smaller Africa inside it before taking it seriously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's exactly what someone who would hide a small Africa inside a map of Africa would say!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh wow, I never realised that Japan is so long compared with Great Britain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If you line up the latitudes you can see Japan is roughly comparable to the coasts of the US.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

I'm so fucking done with maps lumping Central Europe into Eastern Europe. Like you wanna tell me that Austria, Greece, Finland are somehow not eastern but Czechia is. Or how sometimes the Baltics are not eastern but Hungary is.

In this thread: westerners telling me what I should think. Well gee, next time maybe tone down the imperialism a bit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Finland and baltics are northern Europe, not eastern.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And yet few people would argue the same of Murmansk, mostly north of Helsinki. We really need to consider history here, as well. Specifically which side of the iron curtain they were on.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you might be mixing different things here, because it's fucked up shit

Northern Europe: British isles, Scandinavia, Finland, Baltics

Nordics: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Faraoe islands

Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark

Scandinavian peninsula: Sweden, Norway, North-western Finland

Fennoscandia: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Murmansk oblast, parts of Karelia and Leningrad oblasts

And there's more stupid definitions for differently divided areas because fuck you

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, well sure. If you allow them to overlap there's no reason you can't be in both Northern and Eastern Europe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Perhaps some kind of North-East.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Typical Europeans: colonizing this post about Africa to make it about themselves instead. \s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, I am fucking done with maps portraying Europe as a continent. It is called Eurasia, you just like feeling extra special but geographically you are not 🤪

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Based

Show me your continental plate, "Europe"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I've never heard anyone claim the Baltics are not Eastern Europe. Then again, I'm on a different continent.

As for the rest, it's all down to which side they were on/put in during the Cold War.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Austria is literally lumped into "Eastern Europe" on this map lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it's not. That's why it has its own specific label...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't understand - Greece, EE and Austria are all clearly overlaid in top of each other in the same space. It makes no sense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They labelled those parts of the connected landmass with those separate labels so people wouldn't complain that some parts didn't belong to the culturally arbitrary grouping.

The point of the map is to demonstrate that Africa is larger than all of those geopolitically relevant areas, and those connected bits fit into the space so it was included. Don't think too much about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eastern Europe is not real

Not in, like, the "there's nothing there" way, but in the "there's no substantive economic, social or geographic reasons to treat it as a cohesive region" way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I mean there is, its the old Soviet block countries, its just not really relevant anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

that's pretty angry

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

No wonder we never found kony

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It took me way to long to realize what I was looking at...