Altered Maps XVIII: Continuing Curious Cartography

[stfoskey12]

How biased I am towards different countries

Why are you so heavily pro-Russia?

 

[r16]

if you are not from "the superior race/country/culture or whatever" you end up deeply suspicious . After letting thousands of the finest soldiers of Ukraine suffer in an area that invited them to be cut off , the Polish authorities are now telling the American military aid is flowing normally . You know , Krasnov , Russian pr_stitutes , secret recordings , craziness , mercantilist economic theory 250 years late , treason , getting out of NATO , invading Greenland . Russia as an antithesis is essential to human survival . And ı say this , despite the challenge about giving hopes and stuff about the pipedream of a Caliphate two posts up .

 

[Birdjaguar]

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[Tee Kay]

and an explanation

 

[Arwon]

Or, can just be like my city and not have any municipal government or boundaries at all.

But yeah, this regularly catches people off guard when they try to compare cities in the US. People will do things like cite San Fransisco's 800k people or Chicago's 3 million like those figures mean anything abut actual city size, and get confused thinking it means Sydney (5 million) is larger than LA (4 million). And completely miss some of the largest ten US cities like Miami or Washington DC because they're especially municipally fragmented.

When in reality if Australians counted city size the way the US does, by just focusing on municipal boundaries, Brisbane is the biggest city in the country followed by Gold Coast and Moreton Bay on either side of it, while Sydney isn't even the biggest city in Sydney.

 

[Kyriakos]

It's a t-shirt.
Eh... not a very good idea, but at least it shows which countries matter or something.
The white in Iberia is strange - of course no New Zealand but that is common.

 

[Tee Kay]

Or, can just be like my city and not have any municipal government or boundaries at all.

you do have these

 

[really]

You can see the point where Galway City Council's responsibility ends and Galway County Council's responsibility starts on a particular road during the summer.
The city mows the grass verges up to the boundary, the county doesn't.

 

[Arwon]

you do have these

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What, electorates?

 

[Tee Kay]

Not OC. Link to Reddit post.

 

[Tee Kay]

 

[Kyriakos]

Iconium being capital of new new Turkey is actually realistic in this timeline, as it was the first capital of a turkic state in Anatolia.
Not sure about Spain, with the capital at Lisbon.

 

[Tee Kay]

Countries with "Comprehensive Strategic Relationships" with Vietnam (so-called "highest tier"/most important of diplomatic relations from the Vietnamese point of view)

 

[Samson]

 

[Gori the Grey]

But blue harder, so . . . it's a win.

They should show in purple states that have at least some citizens who voted each way, and then present those purple states as the real losers in all of this.

We wouldn't want, you know, health!

 

[Samson]

Where does rice come from?

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a, Geographical distribution of 133 wild rice accessions, with dots coloured by group. Inset maps show enlarged views of West Africa and Australia. Positive values indicate east longitude (°E) and north latitude (°N). b, Schematic representation of p-contigs and a-contigs, showing gene models and variant information from HiFi genome assemblies. c–e, Violin plots comparing O. sativa (Os; n = 16) and O. rufipogon (Or; n = 129) varieties for nuclear genome size (c), gene number (d) and gene density (gene number per Mb) (e). The box edges mark the 25% and 75% quartiles and the central line marks the median. Whiskers extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range (IQR). Statistical significance was determined by two-sided Wilcoxon test; P values are shown at the top. f, Distribution of genes on a-contigs across 133 HiFi genomes, including O. longistaminata (Ol). g, Heat map showing RGA loci that have a higher average copy number in wild rice than in cultivated rice, normalized using a row-wise z-score method. Each row indicates an RGA locus, and each column indicates a variety. h, Local synteny plot of Pi5 loci (chr. 9: 9.65–9.79 Mb in the Nipponbare reference genome) from 41 accessions. Pi5 genes (Pi5-1, Pi5-2 and Pi5-3) are shown in green with collinearity represented by lines of different colours; adjacent genes are shown in blue with grey collinearity lines. i, Accumulation curve of the number of pan-genes (uptrend lines) and core genes (downtrend lines) across O. sativa (green; n = 16) and O. rufipogon (purple; n = 129) varieties. The pie chart shows the gene proportions in the combined wild–cultivated pangenome (n = 145). j, Phylogenetic tree of the 180 Oryza varieties, on the basis of single-copy genes. Diverse groups are denoted by colour-coded labels.

 

[Kyriakos]

I am more impressed by the Po valley.

 

[stfoskey12]

and an explanation

I think Oklahoma makes annexation fairly easy. Oklahoma City and Norman both annexed a ton of rural land around the 1960s-70s to prevent losing a tax base to suburbanization/white flight. OKC has a few older suburbs like Nichols Hills and The Village that are completely surrounded by the city.

 

[Kyriakos]

This is inconsistent, at the very least (different types of food, some clearly fast-food while others take a lot of time to prepare), and likely the dishes themselves aren't the "most popular in each European country".
As for the one for continental Greece - no, this is rather rare by now. Likely haven't even eaten it ten times in my entire life. Maybe (?) it is still popular in Athens. If we are going for a ubiquitous (fast) food, I suppose something like spinach-pie would make sense.

 

[Snowygerry]

Carbonnade à la Flamande is what our southern neighbours call it, when here ask for "Stoverij met Friet" - don't forget the mayonaise

https://dagelijksekost.vrt.be/gerechten/stoofvlees-friet