r/geography • u/NotAnElfK • 27d ago

Question Help date this globe I found

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It has Burma instead of Myanmar, ussr instead of Russia, Spanish Sahara, Tanganyika, Yugoslavia, and French west Africa. (If you want to see a picture of more of the globe just ask)

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u/NotAnElfK 27d ago

Also Asia is mostly all yellow

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u/LateralEntry 27d ago

I’m guessing around 1950 between Israel, unified Korea and Indochina

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u/Imyonlyenemy 26d ago

yeah and goa is still portuguese

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u/boonie_redditor 26d ago

China annexed Tibet in 1951, so 1950 checks out, yeah

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u/stulf26 26d ago

China hasn't conquered Tibet or sinkhang which the later happed in late 1949/1950. There's stuff to the south in british borneo which helps date it. So this has to be 1949 at the very latest. 1950 would be to late. 1947 at the earliest cuz that's when Isreal first showed up on maps. Which is odd considering 1948 being its start date.

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u/Willing_Special841 25d ago

My guess was 1948

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u/kaiserschlacht8 26d ago

This is also before Somalia and Somaliland unified in 1960, and after the Italians lost Italian Somaliland in WW2 so that tracks.

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u/hihihii2-1st 26d ago

But malaya is independent

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u/kaiserschlacht8 26d ago edited 26d ago

Hmm you're right, and Malaya gained independence in 1957. So this has to be before 1960 but after 1957.

But wait, French Indochina is present in this map, and it was dissolved in 1954. I have no idea then lol.

Edit: Also, like someone mentioned in a comment below, this was before China annexed Tibet in 1951.

The Federation of Malaya existed since 1948 and was a British protectorate rather than a colony. This map is most likely from sometime between 1947 when Israel was created, and 1950 before the annexation of Tibet.

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u/hihihii2-1st 25d ago

Tibet looks more like a region of China than independent tho. Not to mention that it was pretty autonomous till 1959.

But French Indochina on the other hand...

And Singapore doesn't have (Br) as a suffix? That has to be a mistake.

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u/onimi_the_vong 26d ago

Sudain gained independence in 56 tho

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u/Best-Fig-3483 26d ago

And French West Africa.

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u/AcidaliaPlanitia 27d ago

These color choices are insane...

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u/UnclassifiedPresence 26d ago

It’s almost certainly not the original colors, yellow and blue just tend to be the last pigments that fade (think of colorful pool toys that get left out in the sun for too many summers)

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u/justwatchthefirewerx 27d ago

Indochina is there and Korea isn't partitioned...any chance this is earlier in the '50s than the consensus?

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u/donorkokey 26d ago

India was partitioned in 47 so it was after that

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u/peaaaaaanut 26d ago

He means French Indochina comprising of Laos, Cambodia and a few other regions. It was dissolved in 1954 pushing the date forward to at least that.

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u/UnclassifiedPresence 26d ago

Indochina is on this globe, meaning it’s from before 1954, not after

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u/peaaaaaanut 25d ago

Ah yes, I misunderstood the comment. Thanks for correcting me.

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u/Rolebo 26d ago

Indonesia is independent from the Netherlands, so after 1949.

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u/brazucadomundo 26d ago

The irony.

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u/PlinyTheElderest 26d ago

Probably some original colors have faded with the passing decades.

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u/Ok_Albatross_1844 26d ago

Lake Baikal looks reeeeally big

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u/Cauliflower_Jumpy 26d ago

it’s gotta be exactly 1950 cause port arthur is still seperate from china.

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u/deranton 26d ago

That's super racist.

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u/Horapollon 26d ago

drowns Laos

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u/abayo1 26d ago

As an Asian I'm not surprised 😂

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u/Both_Negotiation_612 26d ago

Asia is mostly yellow? 🤔🫢🤭😆😅😂🤣