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[Kyriakos]

"Has three times the density of", might be a more anodyne way of putting it

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Maybe center of Madrid is much more densely populated the rest and the graphic shows that. In any case Madrid has twice the population of Barcelona, so Madrid's peak should be shorter but wider, like London.

 

[warpus]

What a joke! Barcelona is three times as dense as Madrid, to begin with.

It's actually a map of population.. but.. it does highlight higher density. Barcelona's pointy thing is wider at the base. For example compare Paris to London. The centre of Paris has a higher population but London has a higher density overall.

At least that's what I think is going on.

So yeah basically I shouldn't have called it a population density map.

 

[JohannaK]

it's a funny weird map alright.

 

[warpus]

The recently proposed high speed rail plan for my neck of the woods:

Purple represents the planned high speed rail line
Yellow represents VIA Rail - an existing intercity rail system servicing the whole country
Green represents GO Transit - an existing regional commuter rail system servicing the Greater Toronto & Golden Horseshoe region
Brown represents UP Express - an existing express rail service from downtown Toronto to Pearson Intl. Airport
Union Station is the main rail and public transit station in Toronto and is located right downtown
Pearson is Canada's busiest airport

For context's sake, the drive from London to Kitchener is about an hour. The drive to Toronto is about two hours but to get right to Union station is probably more like 2.5 hours. The map is not 100% to scale in terms of where the cities are supposed to be

The city I live in, London, is rather insignificant overall, but it does sit at the nexus of a bunch of rail lines, highways, etc. and as a result half a million people live in the greater area now. We'll catch up to the other London eventually

 

[Kyriakos]

A timeless classic, 'greater Albania' map ^^

 

[Takhisis]

IRJM!

 

[danjuno]

Altered may be stretching it, but a map of stuff at 550 BC

Notice the leased/given territory in Egypt (town of Naucratis), for purposes of organizing greek-egyptian trade. Iirc that town was founded by a very large number of different greek politiai, so as to allow for common control of it by all trading sides.

Not gonna lie, I used that map in a high school presentation.

 

[Kyriakos]

^ Use all info found in CFC for the common good

 

[danjuno]

It was a couple of years ago, but I will certainly take your lesson to heart.

 

[warpus]

Does Albania really have a town named Borat?

 

[Kyriakos]

Does Albania really have a town named Borat?

Yes.
They also have a politician who cites Borat as his main influence.

Left: his party's flag, right: the albanian flag. The strong party

Not that it makes sense to have Albania use a palaiologian flag in the first place; they don't control two sides of the sea of Marmara, and aren't even majority christian

 

[Kyriakos]

I suppose this is "Europe according to Northern League Italy"?
Or as it says in the map: "Italian Rebuplic (sic)"

 

[Arakhor]

I don't understand most of those references.

 

[Kyriakos]

^I suppose the UK one just means that most italians only visit for football league games

 

[Takhisis]

Arakhor, which ones do you (think that you) understand and which ones do you not?

 

[warpus]

I get most of them and I don't even live in Europe.

But.. Clock addicts? Do Germans wear a lot more watches than Italians? Are they punctual? Is it a typo?

 

[Arakhor]

I get that the Swiss make clocks, that Greece was Byzantium and that Belgium is Europe (ha, ha), but I'm not seeing the connection to northern Italy.

 

[Takhisis]

It's how they are seen by the Lega Nord and their associates and successors. Also, it is ‘Italy’. From Rome southwards there's dark-skinned people.

 

[Traitorfish]

I get most of them and I don't even live in Europe.

But.. Clock addicts? Do Germans wear a lot more watches than Italians? Are they punctual? Is it a typo?