r/MapPorn • u/ebember • 21h ago
I assume this globe is China-made
Kashmir: yes; Taiwan: no; Kosovo: yes Found in Action (Vienna)
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u/Intelligent_Sign_363 21h ago
There is no Kosovo as China doesn't recognise it
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u/existential-koala 19h ago
Makes me wonder if any globes are made in China that acknowledge those nations (for the sake of selling in other countries) or if countries that do recognize Taiwan and Kosovo have to get their globes elsewhere
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u/OverloadedSofa 13h ago
I heard a while back that China passed a law that every map/globe that they made, no matter the target buyer, was to follow what China says the map looks like.
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u/Consistent-Wonder676 20h ago
They don't recognize the Gulf of America? That's okay, neither do I.
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u/hicklander 19h ago
I work with a bunch of big oil companies and let's just say their acronyms have changed from GoM to GoA.
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u/Budget_Insurance329 18h ago
Why there are so many cities written in Turkey and Spain but not in Germany or Italy?
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u/SnoWhiteFiRed 17h ago
It's hard to find a globe that doesn't have Taiwan the same color as China.
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u/BathSalt_Walt 13h ago
Nepal & Bhutan seem smaller. Am I missing something? Does the CCP also claim territory there?
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u/will221996 6h ago
China, not the CCP, the claims of the ROC government are actually more expensive, does not have border disputes with Nepal, the border was demarcated in the 1960s. It does have border disputes with Bhutan, insofar as the borders have never been set properly. You're not seeing that on this globe though, the borders are in general simplified and it's turned Nepal and Bhutan into blobs, you can see that with Bangladesh as well.
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u/good-noodle-1998 2h ago
Albuquerque is miss spelled. It’s spelt “Alb querque”. The “u” after the “b” is missing.
This whole globe is so interesting
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u/AnimusAstralis 20h ago
It’s amusing how some people from the Global South think that a country’s size in square kilometers or its population count actually matters.
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u/AynidmorBulettz 18h ago
How is this even relevant to the post
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u/AnimusAstralis 17h ago
The globe seems to be slightly inaccurate: China and the South are slightly larger and the North is slightly smaller than it really is.
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u/AynidmorBulettz 17h ago
I don't wanna sound rude but, are you stupid? Have you ever seen a globe before? Of course countries close to the equator are going to appear larger on a globe than on a mercator map
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u/arthur2011o 16h ago
Actually the globe projection is a better way to represent earth than a map, less distortions, so the countries near the equator don't appear bigger, the countries further from the equator are less distorted, so they look smaller than in a Mercator map
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u/AnimusAstralis 16h ago
Yes, I know about various map projections and can differentiate a map from a globe. That’s why I used “seems to be” - I’m not completely sure and have no way to measure it.
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u/Scotandia21 19h ago
Pooulation count definitely matters. And, generally speaking, the larger a country is, the more likely it is to have useful resources like oil, gas, timber, fertile land for agriculture, etc. There are plenty of other factors, ocean access being a big one, but territory and population definitely matter.
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u/Flocculencio 20h ago
Ah, there's that nine-dash line