Altered maps XI: Towards a New Decade!

[Winner]

So much green, humanity must work harder to get rid of the remaining forests!!!

 

[Tee Kay]

Japan FTW

 

[gangleri2001]

That contradicts this map:

If my map is right, then France and the Iberian Peninsula should be much greener and Great Britain and Iceland much whiter.

 

[Winner]

Yes, it is a little odd.

Poland is more deforested than I thought. England is just disgusting.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I think gangleri's map is right. Iceland is famously deforested.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

So much green, humanity must work harder to get rid of the remaining forests!!!

Does that map show density well or does it only have 2 gradients of green ? It's just that Iraq+Iran seem to have the same density of forests as lots of Europe.

 

[gangleri2001]

Does that map show density well or does it only have 2 gradients of green ? It's just that Iraq+Iran seem to have the same density of forests as lots of Europe.

That are the Zagros Mountains and this is how they look like:

Scattered forests. But forests still.

 

[bombshoo]

Which map is more right for Iberia? That and Provence seem to two of the spots with the biggest contradictions.

 

[gangleri2001]

Which map is more right for Iberia? That and Provence seem to two of the spots with the biggest contradictions.

The second.

Once you're outside the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Catalonia is an everlasting green forest. We even have a comarca called La Selva because it's, according to many, the last selvatic area in the whole Mediterranean. The same applies to Portugal and Galicia, known for their green landscape. There're plenty of forests in Provence too. As for the Lower Garonne, I don't know because I've enver been there but I guess it's right.

 

[uat2d]

Portugal here, the second one, without a doubt.

Even in the city, you can't look anywhere and not see a tree. Heck, from space it's all green.

 

[Winner]

Finding a decently coloured satellite photo of Europe is harder than it seems:

Spoiler :

 

[gangleri2001]

Most of the green on the map are fields and grasslands, not forests. And still that doesn't mean anything. There're plenty of satellite images that depict the Zagros Mountains like desertic mountains but, as you can see in the pictures I've posted above, they are far from being desertic.

 

[Optical]

So much green, humanity must work harder to get rid of the remaining forests!!!

What happened to New Zealand?

 

[General Pilates]

I'm pretty sure the China on that map is wrong; the remaining forests are in the frontier regions.

 

[Tee Kay]

I'm pretty sure the China on that map is wrong; the remaining forests are in the frontier regions.

China's northern and western frontiers are deserts. And China do still have plenty of forests left, however they're "open" forests, with a scattering of farms and villages between forested areas. Plus, the State is engaging in plenty of reforestation as well.

 

[Dachs]

China's northern and western frontiers are deserts.

Not really. Dongbei has a buttload of forests, of course. The Mongolian border is, yes, very deserty. While the Tarim Basin is obviously a desert, the actual border area itself, in the Altais and Dzungaria, is reasonably well forested (well, so long as you're below the tree line).

I can't speak to the Chinese interior comparatively, but the frontier should be pretty well covered in a lot of places.

 

[Tee Kay]

Not really. Dongbei

That's Northeastern. Northern = Gobi.

 

[Winner]

What happened to New Zealand?

Orcs ate it.

 

[Tee Kay]

 

[Arakhor]

The American sphere covers all of Western and Central Europe, including Australia and most of South America? I'm guessing that an American put that together.