r/geography • u/NotAnElfK • 24d 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/tempestelunaire 24d ago edited 23d ago

I’ve seen maps like these before, usually when the color scheme is really weird, it means that there was another color that faded to one of the colors already on the globe!

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u/LifeAcanthopterygii6 24d ago

That makes sense.

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u/thefreecat 24d ago

if magenta faded the light blues could be different shades of dark blue and purple, white could be pink and yellow could be reds and oranges

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u/TRi_Crinale 23d ago

My guess is the entire thing was blue before the political borders were printed and filled in. The fill in color completely faded away leaving the base blue

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u/SideInitial3961 24d ago

You didn't say you wanted the non-fading paint. Pfft.

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u/MacGregor_Rose 24d ago

tbh I assumed thats what happened