their globe was a crudely drawn map at the time, i get that they know it was round, and divide it by meridians,

They just drew a line on a globe splitting it in half. Spain didn't know the rest of america yet so they thought they could claim most of the world with this.

This explains why Brazil speaks Portuguese rather than Spanish, and also why Nando’s is better in Melbourne then in Sydney.

that was just after the discovery of the Americas.

how did they define the lines?

The east-coast states of Australia are the ones that are nominally Spanish under the Treaty of Tordesillas, as opposed to the others which are Portuguese

Ouu we blowing up the Snell and Eisenhower locks now?

Is that Australia moving to the northern hemisphere? Or USA going south? I wouldn't mind moving north and getting cold winters.

Ameristralia is leaking.

It's Pikachu vomiting as he evolves into a flesh beast, Tetsuo style.

Texass because it's thicc

It's approximately the size of the Continental United States. For the intentionally ignorant, that means the 48 states in the blob between Tacostan and the United Kingdom of Maple. Not including the territories, Hawaii or Alaska.

It was in the pool.

Australamerica or United States of Australia? The new "down under up over".

Australia is much bigger than that, no?

What do we call Texas 2, the new and improved Australian one?

Ameristralia reunited

Australia? We thinking the Atlantians moved it to the opposite side?

Face-Huggermerica

This thread has a theme song.

I kept one for myself.

If this were true the US would look like a tardigrade

If it existed, Califoirnia would be in the running for the largest economy in the world. (As it stands, California Prime is 4th largest.)

Why is there a missing Jacksonville?

Nah, we're not squares.

693 borders isn't enough...more!...more!!!