2025 : World Map

[pboily]

Greek and Turkish Cyprus unite.....ehehehhe
it is impossible.you have to read history. : )))
and the sweden guy is right.we will never join or get another country.: )))).we are very dangerous for man-kind. : ))))).

I think he was referring to the fact that the EU seems committed to keeping Turkey out of the Union.

 

[The Yankee]

I Belarus joining Russia?

It isn't out of the question. IIRC, there have already been talks about Belarus joining the Russian Federation. Lukashenko would be free to retain his Stalinist fiefdom as well.

 

[The Yankee]

- The Ethiopian-Eritrean border will be redrawn after an open war

I think there may be at least two wars by then. The war clouds are already on the horizon today. I don't think there would be any decisive conclusion to it, making another war down the road more likely.

 

[The Last Conformist]

@pboily: My HD would be a good place to start:

That's supposed to show the result if all glacial ice melted - should correspond to a sea level rise of 65-70m.

 

[De Lorimier]

Where's the US dong (Florida that is)?

Underwater, that's where!

 

[storealex]

Global warming is great. I will be able to fish from my window!

 

[Ansar]

I really hope California breaks off the US Continent and still remain a state.

That way, it will be a super big island.

 

[Dreadnought]

There's going to be a world in 2025???

 

[Dr. Yoshi]

Noooo! North America has been castrated!

TLC, where did you get that? I've been looking for maps of the Earth with the sea level risen by 20m and have not been able to find any (or at the very least just regional maps like Manhattan)

 

[Winner]

I mostly agree with your assumptions.

What do you think the world map will look like in 2025, which borders will be redrawn by then, which countries unite, which parts of the world get annexed and which regions become independant ? Let's see how CFC think global issues will affect the political geography in the next 20 years

Personally :

- Palestine will get become fully independant, but with some disputed areas left in the West Bank and Golan

Possible, but Golan Heights are Syrian. Without profound change in Syria, Israel would be foolish to return them back.

- Belarus will join Russia

I think it will not. It's just a wish of Lukashenko, not liked by the people. Though he is a dictator, he needs popular support.

- Québec breaks off from Canada

They won't go this far, IMO.

- Flanders and Wallonia split in Belgium, Wallonia joins France (possibly)

Again, no break up. And even if it happened, Wallonia won't join France.

- The Ethiopian-Eritrean border will be redrawn after an open war

Minor changes, essentially exchange of few square kilometres of desert.

- India and Pakistan will reach a on Kashmir, India will stop claiming Chinese Kashmir
- Greek and Turkish Cyprus unite

Possible.

What's not going to happen in the next 20 years

- There will NOT be a Kurdish state

Well, I think we already have a semi-independent Kurdistan, it's only called Northern Iraq. After this country breaks-up after long and bloody civil war, Kurdistan will be one of the successor states.

- Western Sahara still won't be recognized
- Kosovo and Montegro won't secede from Serbia

Montenegro will definitely secede in next few years. Kosovo will be a part of Serbia de iure, but independent de facto.

- Chechnya and North-Ingusetia won't secede from Russia
- Abchazia won't secede from Georgia

Abchazia has already seceded, it's just that nobody had recognized that

- Somaliland won't break off from Somalia

There is no Somalia. The land which was once called "Somalia" is now an anarchic utopia.

- French Guyana will not be independant
- Puerto Rico won't become an official US state

That's right.

 

[SonicX]

That's great, you say you agree only to continue disagreeing with every single one of them

 

[JohnRM]

I believe that it is highly possible that the United States, as a country, experiences some form of dissolution or internal conflict.

Other than that, I would really love to see the return of Konigsburg back to Germany, but that may be hoping for too much. Once you get that cultural victory over any given city, they rarely switch back.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

@ The last Conformist: Part of australia is wrong; the water near the spur on the southern coastline should be much further in than it is there.

And on topic; the country that will rue the world in 2025 will be

Spoiler :

Australia!

 

[pboily]

@TLC: beautiful map...

Where do all the Dutch go? Independent Flanders, my guess...

 

[SonicX]

@TLC: beautiful map...

Where do all the Dutch go? Independent Flanders, my guess...

Euh, if it would rise by 65 meters, Flanders will be no more than some 4 square miles islands in the west and a small peninsula in the east half the size of Luxembourg ... they'd still have one province though

 

[The Last Conformist]

TLC, where did you get that? I've been looking for maps of the Earth with the sea level risen by 20m and have not been able to find any (or at the very least just regional maps like Manhattan)

I got it from someone on 'Poly.

I don't know it's ultimate origin, nor can I vouch for it's reliability - some areas seem a bit suspect to me. But many things it shows are real and scary enough.

 

[Winner]

That's great, you say you agree only to continue disagreeing with every single one of them

I said assumptions and I meant you chose the countries whose borders are most likely to change. I just don't think all of them really will break-up.

For example Belgium - it's clear that you know the situation there better, so it may be possible that the country will break-up, but I don't think it is possible for one of its parts to join another EU country. It would affect the balance of power in EU and nobody wants that.

Montenegro will secede, IMO, they're planning their referendum for the next year. They already use Euro and quite frankly, Serbia needs them more than they need the Serbia.

 

[Verbose]

What's the forecast on Korea?

Tibet won't be free.

But what's China going to be like?

 

[silver 2039]

The world will look like this

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[SonicX]

Rescale that pic man :s
And be realistic please, this is not a fantasy topic