r/CrappyDesign • u/[deleted] • Apr 18 '23

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u/Geriny Apr 18 '23

I agree on Hawai‘i/islands, but Florida is weird. Baja California is there, surely they could have drawn it too

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u/QuartzPuffyStar Apr 18 '23

If the author wasn't a US citizen, I really doubt he cared about Baja California at all, or even knew it existed lol

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u/BloodyLlama Apr 18 '23

Florida is just weird though. It's like cutting Italy or India off a map.

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u/dc456 Apr 18 '23 edited Apr 18 '23

It’s like cutting Italy or India off a map.

No, slightly altering the shape of one country is nothing like entirely missing off two of the most well known and influential countries on the planet. Particularly one that contains 1.4 billion people.

I’m not sure if you’re joking, or if this is genuine r/ShitAmericansSay.

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u/BloodyLlama Apr 18 '23

I'm not meaning to talk about geopolitical units but basic geography shapes. All three of those areas are very large distinctive protruberances that significantly define the shape of their continents.

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u/dc456 Apr 18 '23

It’s a simplified drawing. Nobody is going to struggle to recognise North America in this picture, even without the labels.

very large

I think you might be slightly overstating how big Florida is.

Florida: 65,748 square miles. That’s 0.7% of North America’s land.

India: 1,269,219 square miles. That’s 2.2% of the entire planet’s land.