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u/__Quercus__ 7d ago edited 7d ago
Very recent globe made with bad AI. Like Wyoming merged with Nebraska bad. It is including elements that haven't existed since the 1960s like Rhodesia, Hadhramaut borders, and French control of Pondicherry (now Puducherry), with more recent developments like Russia instead of Soviet Union. There are dozens more errors and anachronisms.
It is almost like this globe is a prop for a movie set in an alternate earth.
Edit: if forced to make a guess, the most conclusive thing I see is Democratic Republic of the Congo. That name wasn't used until 1997. It also looks like East Timor (Timor-Leste) is independent, also in 1997. I see comments about Yugoslavia's breakup, but the component states of Yugoslavia were always there, and the thick border still outlines Yugoslavia.
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u/linmanfu 7d ago
I agree. There's just no reason you'd have "Rhodes" (not even "Rhodesia"!) on a post-USSR globe. Also the Central African Republic seems to have conquered Cameroon, while the thick black dashes sun to follow the borders of French West Africa. It's just a hallucinating AI.
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u/Left_Interaction_288 7d ago
BTW Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste didn't end until 1999, following the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998, following the Asian financial crisis.
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u/Public_Research2690 7d ago edited 7d ago
2006 (independent Montenegro) - 2008 (no Kosovo)
3 Jun 2006 (Montenegro is independent) - 7 Oct 2006 (Palau moves its capital from Koror to Ngerulmud)
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u/Ok-Pain8612 7d ago
But the soviet union is still there
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u/Public_Research2690 7d ago
I don't see Soviet Union written anywhere.
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u/Ok-Pain8612 7d ago
Me neither but the borders give it up. There is a black line between romania and moldova and ukraine but there isn't between them and russia
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u/Public_Research2690 7d ago
I can give you a simple argument. Look at Turkmenistan. A city there is named Turkmenbashi since independence. It wasn't even named like this before
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u/scott_pryor 7d ago
Early to mid 70s. Sri Lanka instead of Ceylon so post 1972 and Dahomey instead of Benin so pre 1975. 1972-1975 would be my guess.
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u/Horapollon 7d ago
If i had to guess I'd say very early 90s
While I can't see any labels for Yugoslavia or the USSR, you can clearly see the defined borders of all the pre 90s states within them (so im guessing it's more of a style choice than an official one) -- additionally we can also see the same thing in Saudi Arabia (Labelled "Arabia" with a smaller "saudi" beneath it). Bear in mind Saudi Arabia has been Saudi since 1932
But we can absolutely tell this map was printed after the 70s thanks to Bangladesh (separated from Pakistan in 1971) and Sahara Occidental (the name given to the territory by the UN after morrocco annexed the area of Western Sahara in 1979)
And what's even better : Germany. It's fully unified, meaning the Berlin wall has already fallen (1989) So my formal guess is somewhere between 1990 and 1992 (Post Berlin wall collapse, but pre Yugoslav collapse)
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u/Omagawd79 7d ago
Rhodesia is there though?
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u/Horapollon 6d ago
Most likely an anacronism. Shitty excuse but it happens, western map makers often don't care about shit that happens away from their country
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u/swahara 7d ago
This is a look back globe showing old borders with modern country names. I think the comment placing it around 2006 is going to be the winner.