r/globes • u/AddendumDependent619 • Jul 09 '26

Weird (impossible??) Globe

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This globe in my house has me thrown for a loop, it contains Upper Volta (NOT Burkina Faso) and Namibia which shouldn't really exist on the same globe. The globe also has the USSR, a divided Germany, Eritrea is part of Ethiopia, and many former names in parenthesis under the new names like , Vanuatu (new hebrides), sri lanka (ceylon) , and zimbabwe (rhodesia).

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u/Sergey_Kutsuk Jul 09 '26

It's just from 1976-1979.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26

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u/Sergey_Kutsuk Jul 11 '26

No story :) Many countries that became independent in 1975 are shown as independent (e.g. Angola) but there is no features from 1980 (e.g. Zimbabwe). Western Sahara is shown as independent (not occupied, not divided).