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All countries starting in letter "I" are in a straight line (i.redd.it)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 211 points 10 months ago (12 children)

All countries are in a straight line. If you make it wide enough.

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  • [–] 80 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Or long enough, as it's on a spheroid.

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  • [–] 44 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Or use the proper projection.

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    • [–] 122 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Ivory Coast

    there

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  • [–] 94 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Côte d'Ivorie

    It's weird they use this as their "English-language" name but I don't really have a point, just hoping to watch a thread become a comment shit show

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    It makes just as much sense as calling it Türkiye.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Türkiye

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I'm sorry. I don't see the character difference. What did I miss?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The 2 dots on the "u", I think they are mandatory in English too (not so sure, though)

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    • [–] 109 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Did you know?

    All countries are in a straight line?

    Please send bitcoin, save the dream 😎

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    • [–] 36 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's nothing! All countries starting with a letter can be mapped onto the surface of an oblate spheroid.

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    • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Ivory Coast 😔

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Technically called "Côte d'Ivoire" I believe.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    By that logic, most of those countries' official names don't start with I, so the map is still wrong whichever way you do it.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    Not really. That's their official English name. Same as when Czechia renamed itself from Czech Republic. Both aren't the name in the Czech language, but a country can still change their English name.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Quite.

    Is there a word for the type of ragebait when it's specifically posting something wrong, so that you get engagement from people telling you why you're a fucking idiot? It should be bannable offense regardless. OP going straight on the block list. Actually skimming their profile they look like a low-effort repost bot anyway

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    • [–] 21 points 10 months ago

    On a curved surface.

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    [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    And all countries share a common border if you fold the map right 😉

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    [–] 32 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's not a line, it's a fucking rectangle.

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    • [–] 51 points 10 months ago* (7 children)

    *with their anglicized names

    India, for example, has been traditionally referred to as Bharat (depending on language root) domestically and among the 100s of languages and dialects used there the name India is never used. Similar to Deutschland and Germany.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    What about in the second official language of India, English? :P

    The constitution uses "India" in English.

    But yes they're the English names...

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    It does out of a sense of pragmatism rather than any deeper association to national identity. English is not an indigineous language to India and was enforced upon the populace for a few hundred years. Indian people do refer to themselves as Indian when speaking English, but not when they're speaking an actual Indian language, which I assume is similar for countries like Germany etc.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Did you think someone was unaware that India's use of English stems from colonialism? Because otherwise I don't understand what you're saying.

    The purpose of my comment (to clarify) was that English is a commonly used (even official) language in India, and that the name when using that language is India, rather than Bhata, because your comment to me implied that "India" just wasn't used by the citizens of India when conversing with fellow citizens at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Did you think someone was unaware that India's use of English stems from colonialism? Because otherwise I don't understand what you're saying.

    It would be naive to assume otherwise. Most curriculums, including many Western, do not cover colonialism. So there are, as remarkable as it may be to you or me, many who don't know.

    English is a language that is used in certain institutional settings due to the legacy of colonialism. It's not commonly used by laypeople, especially within regions with common linguistic roots because that would be unnecessary.

    Due to it being a particularly diverse region (ethnically, liguistically and culturally) Indian people in India don't generally refer to themselves as such except when they need to be understood from a foreign perspective. That being said its not really that different from a German referring to themselves as die Deutschen. People in Germany are not running around calling themselves German to each other.

    I agree with you. When the language is used, which tends to be within legacy colonial institutions, the term India is used. That's just not a common circumstance.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    The problem with saying "X language is not indigenous to Y place" is that it just depends how far back you go. France, Spain, Portugal and Romania had Latin enforced upon them, and what about Patois and Nigerian Pidgin where they've developed to the point of being different languages, spoken only in the place they developed, or Singlish where nobody forced English due to the circumstances surrounding Singapore's colonisation, but it was a common language spoken by all of the various ethnic groups there and picked up features from some of the other languages spoken there?

    If Indian people don't refer to themselves as Indian when speaking English, then that's just a characteristic of Indian dialects of English.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Finally! We should refer to India as Bharat in English and languages which borrowed that name, and refer to Indians as Bharatians or whatever. Then Native Americans can be called Indians without the idiocy of “we called them by another nation's name by mistake five hundred years ago, and never bothered to fix it because we don't give a shit”.

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    • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    That's easily the case isn't it, the only question is how much distance is there between these two lines.

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    [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    To be honest, everything is in a straight line if wide enough or in the correct map projection...

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    [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    Guys, guys, this is for real, I just check the wikipedia !

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    [+] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Aye.

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    [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    They also exist together on a sphere.

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    [–] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    If you remove Russia, this is a strip that covers almost half of the remaining land mass. Not impressed.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Russia benefits heavily from this map projection

    Really, it's this size: 1000100517

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    fair enough should have said projected land mass but I think the fact that strip goes somewhat diagonal suggests that the total area distortion inside the strip and outside it (the lower side) will likely be similar (since this particular projection distorts more around the poles as far as I remember)

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    • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    More useless and interesting map facts, please!

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    [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ialestine?

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    • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Flat Earth confirmed

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    [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    For some reason I read this as the letter T and I got so confused 🤔

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Why is Norway's coast highlighted?

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    [+] -6 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Where is Idaho or Illinois?

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The Emancipated and Fully Independent People's Republics of Iowa and Illinois continue to be unrecognized by the UN. But the revolution marches on, comrades.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Last I checked, those aren't countries 😁

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    • [+] -13 points 10 months ago

    You forgot the Islamic Republic of Sweden.

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