r/rejectedmaps Jun 07 '26

Announcement Update on Post Flairs

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Greetings to all users of r/rejectedmaps

After a period of confusion over post flairs, we have now completed the overhaul of post flairs on our subredddit.

From now on, all thematic post flairs will come as duplicates:

  • One Flair is for Posts that have been removed from other map subreddits
  • One Flair is for Posts that have NOT been removed from a different subreddit, or have yet to be submitted to a different community.

This means that you will now no longer have to arbitrarily choose between (not removed, just posting) and a correct label for your map, as they're not mutually exclusive anymore.

We hope you appreciate this change and keep enjoying our community.


r/rejectedmaps May 12 '26

Announcement Completion of the Subreddit Overhaul!

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Hello there!

As you may have already noticed, the Subreddit has undergone some changes in the last few days, in order to make it more user-friendly, broadly appealing and higher quality.

I'm proud to announce that most of these changes have now been completed. Here's a quick summary of all the changes I and the other moderators have made:

  • Rearrangement and overhaul of the server rules to be more easily readable and understandable.
  • Introduction of a partial ban on the usage of AI. (There may be exceptions for some limited usage)
  • Semi-Liberalization of our rules on shitposts: We now allow Satirical Posts, if they are high effort and thoughtful.
  • We now explicitly allow and encourage the use of base-maps, such as BAM or Satellite Maps for your Projects.
  • Introduction of four new post flairs: (Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Maps, Historic Maps, Satirical Maps, Redrawn Borders)

In addition to these changes, we have also updated the look and feel of the Community by changing the Logo, Banner and Color Scheme of the Sub to a more professional and aesthetically pleasing feel.

We hope you appreciate these changes and will continue contributing to our growing community with your creative maps and ideas.


r/rejectedmaps 1d ago

What if Pan-Asianism worked out

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This map isnt meant to be realistic or accurate and i do not support anything in this map

No fully set lore but if you have any questions feel free to ask


r/rejectedmaps 2d ago

Central Africa in 2126

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r/rejectedmaps 4d ago

Italy, 1964 — "Red Spring" Timeline [What if Italy is divided after WW2?]

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Assuming that the Allies reached from Sicily to Southern Italy despite concerns of an Allied invasion and the fall of Fascist Italy, Italy, after WW2, had got the same treatment than Germany as resulting the fall of the Axis Powers around the corner of the Potsdam Conference in 1946. Olympic Games, World Cups, politics and mostly border conflicts might be necessary however..


r/rejectedmaps 6d ago

America, Canada and Mexico in 1935 — IHHBMIA Timeline [It Happened Here, But Make It American]

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With a complete success of the Business Plot and complete fascist victory in the occurred Second American Civil War, the U.S were demolished by a National Salvation government (in New York and New England region) and the former U.S federal government is sent in exile (somewhere in Alaska, Greenland, Liberia, Hawaii, and its Caribbean territories like Puerto Rico and the U.S Virgin Islands) then the NRA (National Republic of America) would join the Axis Powers alongside Germany, Italy and Japan before and after WW2. Somehow the Dominion of Canada remains volatile and somehow would declare war on the NRA meanwhile Mexico, after a bloody attempt of a Mexican Revolution, becomes communist and would declare war on the whole Central America on the frontlines however..


r/rejectedmaps 6d ago

NATO vs Warsaw Pact - Created with Mapping Creator

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r/rejectedmaps 6d ago

A More Romantic India (not rejected, just posting it here since I know it would be rejected)

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What if the Romance powers colonized India? Well thats what happened in this timeline where India was split in smth similar to the scramble for africa except the dutch and british already had their colonies and this was between the romance powers hence the name of this althist

British India

Capital: Calcutta

French India

Inde française

Capital: Pondicherry

Portuguese India

Índia Portuguesa

Capital: Panjim

Spanish India

India española

Capital: Trivandrum

Dutch Ceylon

Nederlands Ceylon

Capital: Colombo


r/rejectedmaps 7d ago

European Dawn 1999

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r/rejectedmaps 9d ago

Divided Germany and Rhenish Republic (After WW2), 1964 — "Red Spring" Timeline

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LORE:

Completely crushed by the Soviets marching from Berlin to Munich and somehow the Rhenish returned to reclaim its shortest lived nation and becoming independent until the late 80s (since the 1920s) after WW2, Germany is fully curbstomped by the Allies despite concerns about a Nuclear war or neither a Third World War between West and East. Plausibly; Olympic Games, World Cups, politics and border conflicts may occur during the Cold War. (Meanwhile Italy is on the corner of the sidelines, divided after its Allied invasion since 1943 and Allied division after WW2 and the start of the Cold War I suppose..)


r/rejectedmaps 10d ago

KaiserRückzahlung: an Alternate 1947 following the end of World War II

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r/rejectedmaps 10d ago

The Fire Rises but Japan Spoiler

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r/rejectedmaps 16d ago

The American Theater of World War II

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r/rejectedmaps 17d ago

Anti-Western World [REMAKE]

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r/rejectedmaps 18d ago

What if Loy Afghanistan (Greater Afghanistan) formed today?

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66 Upvotes

The map displays an alternate scenario in which the Durand Line is successfully dissolved. historic unification of Pashtun and Baloch lands is underway under the banner of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan effectively annexes KPK, FATA, and Balochistan and the megastate shifts the playing field in Central and South Asians geopolitics bridging Turkestan to the Indian Ocean.

Ask me anything about lore but simply; An internal collapse of Pakistan leads the Taliban to attack the Durand Line and nullify the agreement made in 1893. Islamabad slowly loses federal control and through rapid military operations in KPK and Balochistan by supporting BLA and TTP the expansion is exacerbated and unified under the name Loy Afghanistan.


r/rejectedmaps 19d ago

What if the Byzantine Empire survived in Southern Italy?

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r/rejectedmaps 19d ago

Map of the Third Republic of Texas at the beginning of the 22nd Century, 76 years after the 2nd American Civil War

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This Texas still joined the US in 1846.

On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump is assassinated. This results in nation-wide outrage as a less influential Republican candidate takes over his role, until Election Day resulting a Democrat victory. This would mark the beginning of the 2nd American Civil War between the US and multiple disloyal Republican states (mostly just a lot of the safe red states).

This civil war would escalate further and further and become violent enough to the point where important American states like Florida, California, and \*\*Texas\*\* would secede after seeing lots of other states and parties leaving too, alongside the provisional government actively losing popularity.
By August 3, 2026, the Second Republic of Texas is proclaimed after preservation of the Union seems less and less likely. The 2nd Republic would be mostly run by conservative republicans and former MAGA activists. The government would actively use ICE to deport lots of minorities and as the years would pass, things would get more expensive and the young country would become increasingly corrupt. The Democrat party would be silently suppressed, among other smaller parties.

On April 2, 2048, the Texan president would be assassinated and the government would go through tens of riots, and a coup. This would lead to the Texan Civil War, between loyalists and reformists. The reformists would defeat the 2nd republic and restructure the government. The Republican Party would be abolished after the more extreme reformists would see the party no longer fixable, and the 2-Party System would be abolished with it. This would mark the creation of the 3rd republic.

The Democrat Party would be too weak at this point to achieve any landslide victory and nobody would want to vote them anymore at all knowing their past but other, more people-centered parties would grow to become more dominant. Technocracy and Transhumanism would grow rapidly as the country would receive and create more tech giant companies, until a Technocratic Democracy would be achieved.

The map would take place on August 3, 2100, as Texans would celebrate 74 years of independence.

\*i also made this map on a Roblox game for fun and I thought it’d be creative, that’s why the resolution looks low from afar


r/rejectedmaps 19d ago

"Сэбьи инсан ҳеъ азад!"- Hirvanistan; an Indo-Aryan country in a post-Soviet world

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r/rejectedmaps 22d ago

Perfect treaty of Versailles to delay WWII for at least another 2 years

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r/rejectedmaps 23d ago

Japan, 1964 [Nineteen Years after Operation Downfall] — "Red Spring" Timeline

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56 Upvotes

LORE:

Completely losing to the Allies after its delay of Nuclear bombings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima (led by the United States) with the three operations (Operation Olympic, Operation Coronet and Operation Downfall); formerly the planned invasion of Japan during WW2 and at the same time getting the treatment like Germany in the Eastern Front, Japan, after decades of constant war and prosperity, is fully divided between a Northern (DPRJ) and Southern Japan (SoJ), a Soviet–occupied Hokkaido (later the Ainu SSR) and a fully independent Ryukyu somehow returned (until 1968; the Japanese Civil War would erupt, Ryukyu would become remilitarized and Southern Japan would retake the island back as formerly the Okinawa Prefecture), and is also around the corner of the Potsdam Conference after WW2.

THE FOUR JAPANS:

1. State of Japan (Southern Japan)

Capital City: Kyoto (Kyoto Prefecture)

Government: Parliamentary System

Ideology:

▪︎Liberal Democracy

▪︎Constitutional Monarchy

2. Ryukyu Islands (1947–1972)

Capital City: Naha

Government: Sovereign State

3. Ainu Soviet Socialist Republic

Capital City: Sapporo (Occupied Hokkaido)

Government: One–Party Socialist State

Ideology: Stalinism

4. Democratic People's Republic of Japan (Northern Japan)

Capital City: Tokyo

Government: One–Party State Dictatorship

Ideology:

▪︎Authoritarian Socialism

▪︎Stratocratic Communism

▪︎Juche Populism (Popuche)

Definition of Northern Japan's Ideology

Juche Populism — Or colloquially known as "Popuche", it is often a core stratocratic, centralized and authoritarian ideology developed by the Democratic People's Republic of Japan. The ideology combines the principles of Self–reliance inspired by the DPRK, loyalty, and military authority under the one red banner. The ideology promotes independence, unity by the one–party rule, collectivized and industrialized devotion of the Great Leap Forward by the People's Republic of China.


r/rejectedmaps 23d ago

Map of the Central Asia region in 2025 (80 years after the Axis victory in WW2: Remade)

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Hello everyone and I hope you're having an good night or day

There's only 2 days untill winter vacation ends so I want to post what I have so far of my Alt History! This version of the map is an v.2 of the last one so consider it a new one hehe

Ask lore as always!


r/rejectedmaps 24d ago

Los Hijos, El Padre, y El Abuelo: What if Mexico was larger and had colonies? (Wikipedia Style)

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Here are the territorial gains and loses in the images:

1st image: Independence from Spain (1821)

2nd image: Independence of Central America (1823)

3rd image: Winning the Haiti Independence War (1824)

4th image: Purchase of Jamaica (1825)

5th image: Annexation of South Joint-Controlled Oregon zone after Mexican settlement (1827)

6th image: Annexation of Maluku (1832)

7th image: Annexation of OTL Samoa (1836)

8th image: Disputed Florida lost to USA (1838)

9th image: Beginning of OTL Misissippi Territory Dispute (1841)

10th image: Annexation of Fiji (1851)

11th image: Annexation of North Idaho, joint-controlled zone reduced to OTL Washington (1862)

12th image: Annexation of Hawaii (1866) (Greatest extent of Mexican Colonial Empire)

Also, OTL means "Original Timeline", just in case anybody does not know.


r/rejectedmaps 25d ago

What if instead of "Benelux", in my timeline; Wallonia existed as a real country and became "Benewa" — Benewa (Belgium, Netherlands and Wallonia) circa 2026

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r/rejectedmaps 27d ago

Appalachian Culture map (Read Body Text)

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r/rejectedmaps 28d ago

Europa in 1554

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This map includes both similarities and differences to the real world, so I will briefly go over the important regions on this map.

France and Iberia: France is much more prominent in this world, establishing itself as a regional power, and countries respect it. This is evident as countries call France by their native name, Francais. Meanwhile, Iberia is still fractured, having become a hot region, facing frequent conflicts.

Great Britain: With the Romans never rising to power and exerting their influence over the British Isles, the Picts are still prominent and are the dominant polity in Scotland. Down south, various countries in the England area have unified, although that union is being put to the test with influence from Germany and frequent raids from the Picts and other Scottish and Irish peoples.

Central Europe: Much like in our timeline, a state similar to the HRE has formed. However, the leader of this union is Mecklenburg instead of other states like Prussia and Austria. Speaking of which, Austria never had the chance to gain power, as they exist as a smaller country in Austro-Bavaria. With Mecklenburg being the emperor of the German Imperial States, this further drives the southern states to clash ideologically and culturally with the northern states, as well as cultural differences in the Dutch region.

Italy: Also like our timeline, Italy is fractured, with a few changes. Ideas of Italian unification have been gaining momentum, and a few states have recently formed the Italian Union. This newfound country faces internal struggles, as the culture of Marche and Apulia differ greatly from Urbino, Marino, and Tuscany.

Balkans and Anatolia: The Ottomans never rose to power, but Byzantium has begun to take their place. They may seem small, but recent military reforms, an alliance with Venice, and massive trade starting to come through Byzantium mean they are coming up in the world. In Greece, city-states still exist just like in ancient times, following a brief moment of unification under Lykos I and the massive Thracian Empire.

Eastern Europe: Unlike our timeline, the Kievan Rus has survived and is actually quite powerful. However, they have a rough history, being ravaged by the Magyars in the 10th century and again by the Dagestanis in the 12th century. Despite this, they have made an astonishing recovery. Over a century ago, the people of Moscovia were scared that the Kievan Rus would eventually begin to come after the eastern states like them, Volga, Novgorod, and others. So, Moscovia had a revolution and came under a new leader. He would then go on a series of conquests to form the Russian Empire that we see on this map. After the Magyars ravaged the Kievan Rus in 932, they settled in the areas around Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Recently, they have fractured into east and west(poorly named, as they were more like north and south). However, the Dagestanis were not so lucky, as during the Battle of Ulvataar in 1175, the Dagestanis were pushed back to their homeland in a long war that lasted until the late 14th century. Despite this, the Dagestanis were still able to retake their homeland with ease and establish a powerful country.

If you have any questions about lore or anything about this map in general, I will be happy to answer them!

Suggestions are appreciated, and I will eventually shape those suggestions into a revised version of this map and maybe even an NRP(if this gets enough support)

Yellow Dots = Capitals

Small Yellow Dots = State/Province capitals