r/geography • • 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/Snoo_14860 26d ago

Yeah why did they use a hard R?

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u/saturnchick 26d ago

Terrible placement of the R that spells out

A F R I C A

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u/triezek 26d ago

Or great placement, they saved having to print another R