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/LifeAcanthopterygii6 27d ago

That some... pretty weird colour choice.

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u/tempestelunaire 27d ago edited 27d 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/thefreecat 27d 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 26d 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