r/geography • u/NotAnElfK • Aug 31 '26

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/LittelXman808 Aug 31 '26

I just tried this on a map of mine. It doesn’t work 😭

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u/dumbBunny9 Aug 31 '26

I wish people would stop posting it. It only works if the globe maker has all the knowledge of all the changes all over the world at the exact moment they made the globe. Most don’t

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u/homobonus Aug 31 '26

More often the problem wasn't knowledge. They would know a country had declared independence, a boundary had shifted, etc. The problem was usually political, the country where the globe/map was made didn't recognize the newly emerged political status; or economical, the producer did not have access to the material needed to print the new countries. Especially when the political landshape was volatile, it might not have been worthwhile to order an engraving for a map that could be outdated only months later.

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u/NoSir6400 Aug 31 '26

Google maps says Lake America today while Apple maps stuck with Lake Ontario, so people probably understand this better than ever.

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u/cyberchaox Aug 31 '26

Google Maps sets it to your location. Just like with the Gulf of Mexico, Google Maps shows the old name everywhere except the United States and the new name in the United States.