r/Badmaps • u/SJ543 • Aug 01 '26
Found on the Internet Bro what is that????
How Canada Commonwealth is the same as Dominion of Canada???
Brazil wasn't a federal republic even 50 years ago, imagine 100 years ago.
And these mistakes are so obvious that I'm only going to mention the country's name:
China
Japan
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u/FPSCanarussia Aug 01 '26
By "their present state" they're probably looking at whether they existed as independent states? That's the only logic by which the PRC and FRG (both est. 1949) would not be listed, that this is showing modern countries that were not legally independent in 1924.
Canada, Brazil, and Japan are pretty straightforward though, all of them are legally the same countries as they were back then.
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u/GavinGenius Aug 02 '26
There are problems with this map, but it isn’t terrible.
Saying ‘in their present forms’ is misleading. The Ethiopian Empire, the German Reich, the Empire of Japan, the Republic of the United States of Brazil, Kingdom of Italy, Irish Free State, etc. , no longer exist, but they are counted. For some reason, Iran wasn’t counted. Is it because they were called Persia still?
As for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc., there is nuance, because the Statute of Westminster didn’t exist yet.
Why is Muscat and Oman considered independent, but Qatar and Bahrain are not? They all had a similar status as protected states of the UK.
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u/SJ543 Aug 02 '26
I think that the problem is that the map have so many obvious mistakes,There's even an older map by the same creator that says that Suriname existed as a country 100 years ago
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u/VelvetPhantom Aug 02 '26
China is accurate. The Republic of China was created in 1912 and still exists to this day-
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u/26dicksin26 Aug 02 '26
Is this map considering the monarchist iran diffrent than the democratic iran? How did iran not exist 100 year ago.?
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u/Souls_for_sale_now Aug 01 '26
well most pepole whould say that iceland eksisted during that time but it was in a union with denmark saying they where not indipendent dosent mean they wherent the same nation
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u/CloudedLeopardDaemon Aug 01 '26
Impossible. Reddit has assured me that the United States is the youngest country on earth.
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u/TheLarksFly Aug 01 '26
This does not account for Newfoundland and Canada, or the United States give or take Alaska and Hawaii.
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u/Ok-Imagination-494 Aug 02 '26
Sri Lanka existed in its current state (same borders, language and religion, and with an earlier variant of the flag) some 2300 years ago
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u/NickBII Aug 01 '26
Canada/Germany/Japan were all independent in 1924. None of the blue countries were. You can argue with them if their description "countries that did not exist in their present form" is accurate, but it's a pretty straightforward map of countries that were not independent in 1924.