30-04-2003 23:36									#1
	Countries/provinces that look cool on the map Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

At the 'state pride' thread, people talked about how cool Maryland looked on the map. I agree. Maryland's got zazz. It excitingly combines the straight line-border and the squiggly river border. The way it sorts of divides in two is also neat. All in all, Maryland's pretty finely-shaped state. However, it probably wouldn't work as an independent nation, considering it'd look all silly by itself. No, we can't let Maryland get independent.

What other areas just look cool on the map?

Now, there's Finland, of course, though the Russians unbalanced it quite a bit by chopping off large parts of it. Greece is nice, with a good, detailed coastline. Israel creates an interesting large-small dynamic when placed on the map with all those big Arab states. It should have kept Suez peninsula, though - it looked even cooler with it. Mexico looks pretty good, but if you took, say, Oklahoma, Texas, NM, Arizona and parts of Cali and Nevada you'd get by continuing the northern border of Arizona westwards and gave those to Mexico, it'd look *super* great. Croatia is a bit like Pacman, chomping on Bosnia - I lke that. Somalia can't pull that off as well, though.

Then there are bad apples. Namibia has that silly little extension. Nepal looks kinda silly all like that, between India and China. And what about Gambia, small stretch of land inside Senegal? Haven't you ever looked at map and said "You know, I feel that Senegal should invade and annex Gambia, just for reasons of geographic prettiness"? And look at Malaysia, divided in two all like that. Disgraceful.

All in all, world could benefit from a major border restructuring. Sure, there'd be pain and suffering and all that, but my mental peace would be *considerably* increased by the prettier maps.

	30-04-2003 23:38									#2
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Finland and Sweden make a great combo.

	30-04-2003 23:39									#3
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Britain looks like a pensioner leaning on a stick. Not good.

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On that note, I'll mention Florida.

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And then there is Chile. It is like Israel, except 50x as tall.

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quote: Finland and Sweden make a great combo.

Only as the penis-scrotum in the Euro. Otherwise, Sweden's just cramping our style. It's like a giant condom.

quote: Britain looks like a pensioner leaning on a stick. Not good.

I've always thought Britain looks like an old crone who's fallen and broken something and now lies in the ground in an uncomfortable position but still smiling, bless her.

	30-04-2003 23:43									#7
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I would like to see Italy kick Sicily into France's backside.

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Yes.. we are the balls of Europe.

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Etala - Savo looks good on a map too.

	30-04-2003 23:48									#10
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South Africa is pretty cool, what with the hole in it from Lesotho.

	30-04-2003 23:52									#11
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quote: Yes.. we are the balls of Europe.

I just realized how good that would be for an advertising slogan.

quote: Finland - The balls of Europe!

I've always considered that the round or square countries look dumb, and the interesting ones are the ones with many suspicious shapes, such as Namibia, Japan and Cyprus.

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Italy is like a boot kicking a stone, I envy the little Italian kids who had toi draw it at school. Easy.

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esp. considering to greece.

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Chile's too long. Basically, in South America, I'd reintroduce the ancient Inca empire at it's largest. Now THAT looked cool.

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quote: Chile's too long. Basically, in South America, I'd reintroduce the ancient Inca empire at it's largest. Now THAT looked cool.

quote: which raises a fair question: why won't south america unite? ( except Brasil ).

I thought that most of them already tried it in the 1800's?

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I've always liked the shape of Australia. I don't know why.

	30-04-2003 23:56									#17
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which raises a fair question: why won't south america unite? ( except Brasil ). They already share the most important thing: language and religion.

	30-04-2003 23:57									#18
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why indeed. it would be great if they did (although Brasil would have to stay out I guess)

	01-05-2003 00:17									#19
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I like the boot of Italy and the dog head of Quebec.

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If you take Norway, Sweden and Finland together and turn them upside down, you've got the front half of a camel.

I'm not entirely sure whether there's hidden symbolism in that.

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Wow Tuome, you answered my question before I asked it!

I am quite ignorant of the history of South America, so if someone wants to enlighten me, don't be ashamed.

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quote: Originally posted by Azazel which raises a fair question: why won't south america unite? ( except Brasil ). They already share the most important thing: language and religion.

That comment is a rather easy way for you to get yourself killed in S America Azazel... There is little love lost between Peru and Ecuador, colombia and Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile, or Peru and Chile, or Argentia and anyone else in Latin America.

I say Panama, an S that fell over. I also like Algeria, and India, though the area of Assm just looks added on.

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quote: Originally posted by Winston If you take Norway, Sweden and Finland together and turn them upside down, you've got the front half of a camel. I'm not entirely sure whether there's hidden symbolism in that.

Ah, but if you play them backwards on a record player can you hear "We buried the drummer"?

	01-05-2003 00:38									#24
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Little love lost? Oh, you mean petty warlordish squabbling over no real issues? I don't see any basis for cultural, or religious xenophobia in South America. I understand that the continent is heterogenous, but there is much more in common for them to unite, than for the EU, for example.

	01-05-2003 00:45									#25
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Since this was pointed out to me quite a many years ago, I've never lloked at a map of Dallas-Ft. Worth quite the same.

	01-05-2003 00:47									#26
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Freakin' Texas.

-Arrian

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Do you see what I'm saying?

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erm, what?

	01-05-2003 00:50									#29
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Texas roads followed cattle trails.
They weren't laid out East-West, North-South, like Iowa or many other states.

So what you'll generally see is a "hub and spoke" look.

	01-05-2003 00:51									#30
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I see what you mean, Slowwhand. The light-blue DFW Airport looks exactly like Darth Vader after Luke cut off his right forearm.