Guess the Map IX: The Richese are no match

[Goodfella]

Guantanamo is near 7, but less red than Belgium, so it may be a good hint (so is Luxemburgh)

I think you're confusing your Latin American countries with US military bases.

 

[strijder20]

Something about territorial losses and incorporations.

Nope, nothing to do with it. Makes sense for Belgium though I guess.

Is it bout flag colors, insignia, national anthem, or something like that?

No, but you got a little bit closer than the other guesses.

Is it a coincidence that Belgium and Congo are very dark?

It has nothing to do with their colonial relationship.

Guantanamo is near 7, but less red than Belgium, so it may be a good hint (so is Luxemburgh)

It's Guatemala Luxemburg is indeed ranking 6 on the scale.

Number of people being held without trial?

No. Surely not!

Hey, we're still a democratic country over here in Belgium

 

[Kyriakos]

I think you're confusing your Latin American countries with US military bases.

edit: well, you are right

I thought that red bit was Guantanamo... It turns out that only the larger island is Cuba.

 

[strijder20]

edit: well, you are right

I thought that red bit was Guantanamo... It turns out that only the larger island is Cuba.

Left part of 'East Cuba' is Haiti, red part of 'East Cuba' is Dominican Republic.

 

[Goodfella]

edit: well, you are right

I thought that red bit was Guantanamo... It turns out that only the larger island is Cuba.

Well I initially thought you were mistaking Guatemala for Guantanamo which would've been an understandable slip of the tongue. But the Dominican Republic...? Wut?

 

[Kyriakos]

Yeah, i learned something here

Actually, those american micronations were quite obscure in my mind. Including Haiti which i thought was a lot smaller and one of the island chain in the lower caribbean... So indeed i gained something from this map

 

[Takhisis]

Official and minority languages then.

 

[Goodfella]

Yeah, i learned something here

Actually, those american micronations were quite obscure in my mind. Including Haiti which i thought was a lot smaller and one of the island chain in the lower caribbean... So indeed i gained something from this map

Guys, maybe the next map should have some labels.

 

[Kyriakos]

Cause mericans are typically good at geography

 

[Takhisis]

You can check the larger maps in the OP, y'know.

 

[Goodfella]

Cause mericans are typically good at geography

Well I guess you're dumber than the average American then. How's it feel?

 

[Takhisis]

Well, he does live in a third-world country.

 

[Kyriakos]

I suppose i would then feel that there are obviously no Americans in the actual USA.

@Takhi: we all do, by now. Including goodfella

 

[Takhisis]

I didn't say which he I was referring to.

 

[Goodfella]

I suppose i would then feel that there are obviously no Americans in the actual USA.

Probably aren't a lot who'd confuse Guantanamo Bay with the Dominican Republic. And how do you not know where Haiti is? If you didn't know where it was before the earthquake, I'd expect you to have figured it out after.

 

[Lillefix]

Probably aren't a lot who'd confuse Guantanamo Bay with the Dominican Republic. And how do you not know where Haiti is? If you didn't know where it was before the earthquake, I'd expect you to have figured it out after.

Not that many people know where it is. I bet only a small fraction(a fifth perhaps) of adult Europeans can place Haiti on a map(the French are perhaps a bit better).

 

[strijder20]

Not that many people know where it is. I bet only a small fraction(a fifth perhaps) of adult Europeans can place Haiti on a map(the French are perhaps a bit better).

That's disappointingly little, although I'm inclined to believe you.

Official and minority languages then.

No, but it does (in a way) have to do with language.

 

[Arakhor]

I know Haiti's in the Caribbean somewhere. I wonder how many Britons could place St. Kitts & Nevis or St. Vincent & the Grenadines.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Thanks

Read this on wiki:



Sounds very horrible. The usual case of massive exploitation...

This is a region which was once dominated by vast mangrove forests, which have pretty much all died off. I remember the chairman of Georgia Tech's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering giving a talk about this in one of my classes. He lead a team investigating the destruction of the mangroves. There was a lot of pressure from the people for him to blame the oil companies (which are very corrupt and often do cause environmental disasters, as the government lets Chevron write all the regulations and then doesn't even bother enforcing them), but in this case they were not to blame. The environmental destruction in this region is largely due to Che Guevara. It is thanks to him that the Cubans came over and built so much infrastructure in Angola. They did a lousy job of it. They did not include nearly enough culverts in the new roads, and most of the few they did install often got filled in afterwards. As such, they ruined the hydrology of the whole region. The mangroves were not being poisoned by leaky off shore oil rigs, because they had mostly be cut off from the ocean. Freshwater streams had been diverted so that they could not refill the estuary or allow water levels to reach high enough for them to connect with the ocean and allow the mixing o fresh and salt water which mangroves require.

 

[Takhisis]

I know Haiti's in the Caribbean somewhere. I wonder how many Britons could place St. Kitts & Nevis or St. Vincent & the Grenadines.

Or, until 1982, those penguin-infested rocks somewhere off Scotland.