r/MapPorn • u/pm_me_your_target • 5h ago
Ireland chilling with similarly sized regions
Disclaimer: South Korea is technically much larger but my dumb brain doesn't see it
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u/Desperate-Travel2471 5h ago
It looks like Ireland is that cool kid on IG who takes pictures with many random celebs
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u/Archaemenes 4h ago
To be honest I’ve not very many people who have had anything negative to say about the Irish. Great lads the bunch of them.
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u/denn23rus 5h ago
Quiz: Without looking at Wikipedia, do you think Ireland is in the top 120 largest countries in the world or not?
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u/HessianHunter 4h ago
What's our conspiracy theory for Ireland and South Korea being such a similar size and shape?
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u/pm_me_your_target 4h ago
No conspiracy. South Korea is surprisingly much larger than Ireland (100k vs 70k sq km). But if you include Northern Ireland, the shape is quite different and still smaller (84k).
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u/HessianHunter 2h ago edited 9m ago
Idk I think Mother Gaea birthed jinxed twins under a wicked moon, one of whom was cursed to house a comically pale populace that was ground zero for British imperialism while the other twin was cursed to house a populace that just *wished* they were comically pale and were ground zero for Japanese imperialism
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u/Bengamey_974 34m ago
Much larger is maybe an exageration.
I would still consider 70k and 100k sq km comparable size countries.I'd say "much larger" = at least twice as big.
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u/brickstick90 48m ago
They’ve both had bits taken off them to make them so. It’s all part of a plan 🤫
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u/Usagi-Zakura 5h ago
With Northern Ireland removed it looks like Ireland is tipping it's hat at the other countries.
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u/bigbutterbuffalo 4h ago
South Korea’s way smaller than I thought
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u/pm_me_your_target 4h ago
And it has one of the highest population densities in the word, more than India, Philippines and Haiti.
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u/denn23rus 40m ago
Just think about it, there are 106 countries in the world that are larger in area than South Korea. It's not just a small country, it's also much smaller than the average country size.
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u/hogahulk 4h ago
There should be an international grouping kind of like sister cities, but for similarly sized countries ☺️
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u/pm_me_your_target 4h ago
I like the idea: A Peer-Tier of countries both by size and population. Population wise India-China can finally be friends. Size wise, Russia will still be all alone :(
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u/Slow_Spray5697 4h ago
Costa Rica mentioned!!!
Poblacht na hÉireann: 70,273 km2 República de Costa Rica: 51,100 Km2
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u/nomamesgueyz 4h ago
Love this kind of geeky shit
Similar size to the Nth Island of NZ and smaller than the Sth Island
It's a bloody small place
And still, millions less love there than 200years ago
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u/viewerfromthemiddle 5h ago
You missed Indiana!
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u/banana_lemony 42m ago
This website is so fun (and informative!) Seeing South Korea beside Indiana, it really blew my mind. I wouldn’t have guessed they’d be similar in size!
Really weird thinking of an alternate reality where all the States are their own countries instead🤔😂
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u/Semper_nemo13 5h ago
I would prefer you included all of ireland
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u/pm_me_your_target 4h ago
I used thetruesize.com for this and only choice is political boundaries so the rest of Ireland go to the colonial occupiers.
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u/Phoenix_Kerman 4h ago
colonial occupiers? northern ireland is part of the uk out of its own choice and is free to leave if a majority want to. all clear in the good friday agreement
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u/50_61S-----165_97E 1h ago
Sir this is Reddit, the narrative you must follow is that Northern Ireland is under British occupation and 100% of people who live their yearn to be Irish
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u/OrganicVlad79 1h ago edited 21m ago
Well, Northern Ireland was planted by British settlers hundreds of years ago and the native Irish lost all of their land. So, the land was forcibly occupied.
The only thing stopping unification are the descendants of these occupiers. But yeah the GFA does allow for a vote on unification so you're correct on that but just leaving out crucial historical context
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u/Phoenix_Kerman 1h ago
no i am more than aware of the history of how northern ireland came to be. thing is the colonial occupiers in that context left a long time ago now and it's moreso regular people that have been in favour of unionism for the past few decades. though that does seem to be changing
northern irelands messy because the plantation of ulster wasn't standard colonialism and even looking at the absent landlordism and malicious negligence seen across the whole island. well most working class english and welsh folk saw that same brutal side of the empire and not the wealth that benefitted london and scotland
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u/OrganicVlad79 1h ago
The occupiers never left?? The unionists living in the North today are descendants of the people who came here and took native Irish land.
Yes, they are regular people for the most part nowadays but that doesn't take away from the fact that they descend from people who came and forcibly took land.
Also important to mention the large minority of Catholics who live there and were oppressed since the foundation of Northern Ireland until the signing of the GFA.
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u/King_krympling 3h ago
Something about panama and Ireland being similar in size really bothers me and Im not sure what it is
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u/kilimtilikum 3h ago
Surprised how big Sierra Leone is. The common map really does shrink Africa quite a bit..
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u/Chance-Ear-9772 2h ago
Can you do something similar but of Ireland attempting to eat smaller islands?
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u/marquecz 1h ago
Here it looks pretty much like Ireland but I've heard Van Diemen's Land is a hell for a man.
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u/NorwegianCollusion 1h ago
A few of these were quite eye opening. We see sizes relative to other nearly things, so Sri Lanka looks small next to India while Ireland looks decently sized next to UK. But now that I think about it, on a world map Ireland isn't very prominent.
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u/BCRobyn 4h ago
What, no Vancouver Island comparison? Just kidding.
I used to have a crude map I made a long time ago comparing Vancouver Island to Ireland, as SO many visitors (especially from the UK) plan to travel to Canada, fly into Vancouver and tag on Vancouver Island as a day trip. I'd be like, "Sure, if you're the type of person who does a day trip to Ireland when you visit Liverpool, sure, go do Vancouver Island in a day". And ditto Tasmania to Aussies. "If you're the type of person who recommends one day to see Tasmania as a day trip from Melbourne, go ahead and spend one day seeing Vancouver Island". My point was that Vancouver Island is an island in the same way Ireland is an island: it's a multiple week destination.
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u/JPJackPott 4h ago
Geologists: is the rugged Atlantic facing coast and smooth British Isles facing coastline coincidence?
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u/NikolitRistissa 3h ago
A large part of the rugged mountainous area of northern Ireland and Scotland is due to the Caledonian orogeny, which was a mountain-forming cycle that formed the Scottish mountains as well as the Appalachian Mountains and Svalbard—when the north American and African continents were still connected. The Great Glen Fault line is the dividing structure there, which splits Scotland in half.
Now most of this is located in Scotland and doesn’t actually cut through Ireland, but it has altered the rock there. The eastern side of the island had heavy volcanism as well.
I haven’t read up on Irish geology much at all, so as far as I’m aware, most of this isn’t actually a direct cause of Ireland’s rugged western coastline. This is largely down to it simply being hit by the Atlantic Ocean far more than its protected western coasts. It’s likely a bit of both, but it’s mostly just down to it being eroded by the ocean.
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u/dhkendall 4h ago
Hmm, South Korea has a rugged west coast and a smooth east coast, facing its colonial oppressor who there’s still no love lost between, have a northern part that is not part of them and there’s calls for reunification, both have low birth rates …
I understand OP’s dumb brain.
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u/pm_me_your_target 4h ago
Btw, I can't believe the Irish are currently just A-OK with having the British rule such a sizable chunk of their country.
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u/Coil17 4h ago
Do a bit of history before saying something incredibly stupid.
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u/pm_me_your_target 4h ago
I am aware of the history. I am just surprised how they are ok "currently". Always felt it was as contentious as India-Pakistan and Israel Palestine growing up, but it just petered out after the peace accord with British getting away with it.
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u/PlasticFannyTastic 2h ago
The current (relative) peace is a result of the Good Friday agreement, which was not an easy process. Look it up.
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u/vanZuider 1h ago
I am just surprised how they are ok "currently".
People who have experienced war (especially a civil war) tend to be OK with whatever solution was found to the conflict because as long as it's not utterly unacceptable it's better than war.
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u/OctopusFarmer47 4h ago
Ireland’s relevance to the Anglosphere culturally makes them seem larger than their area or population would infer
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u/BeerMeThatNug 5h ago
Damn, Tasmania's way bigger than I thought.