Altered maps XI: Towards a New Decade!

[mayor]

Ah. But then it should have been the "Czecho-Hungarian" Empire.

I just read the article and it is indeed "The Czech" and "Hungarian Empire". They are to separate countries.

on the note of reading the article: the map became even better.

 

[Masada]

Ah. But then it should have been the "Czecho-Hungarian" Empire.

The emphasis is on the Hungarian Empire

 

[Save_Ferris]

Would Scandinavia have Greenland, then?

 

[Winner]

I just read the article and it is indeed "The Czech" (...)

Ah, so the author just doesn't know what the name of this country is.

OTOH, some of the other maps are cool, my favourite:

 

[JohannaK]

Jesus Christ lol This is incredibly good.

 

[Winner]

 

[JohannaK]

Please... Please... Stop it... I'll die of laughter!!!

 

[Save_Ferris]

Moar of these!

 

[uat2d]

Turkey - EU candidate

 

[gangleri2001]

You're wrong Winner, the best one is this:

And in second place this:

 

[uat2d]

That was funnier when Berlusconi was in power.

 

[Winner]

You're wrong Winner, the best one is this:

I don't find the Berlusconi map very funny, and I don't very much get the Israel-Solar system one. But the Pal. territories as "sun spots" is rich

 

[Leoreth]

Great background info, although most of it could be guessed at. Just noted the EU let in Macedonia to even further piss off Greece

In general, it's so good because it spares nobody and ridicules everyone equally.

 

[gangleri2001]

Oh no! Some occitanophile posted this maps on the largest Catalan independentist board (it wasn't me) and now we've got a Catalan independentist version of the Altered Maps thread. Here, have a look:

Click me

 

[JohannaK]

Somebody should have posted the Spaniard vision.

 

[Optical]

I like this one - it's the world according to Dubya, courtesy of the Strange Maps blog

Not sure whether New Zealand being absent is intentional or not

 

[ZeletDude]

I still like Roosevelt's plan for post WW2 Germany.

No, only Imperial Germany's borders are acceptable.

 

[say1988]

The best pat is the southeast US. I wonder if it was intentionally named as the English translation of al-Qaeda or just a generic reference to the Republican base.

 

[Winner]

NY Times, from an article about how London steals from New York's financial services table.

 

[Tee Kay]

Disclaimer: some of these may have already been posted - I can't remember.