"Alternative" World Map (from xkcd)

[steveh11]

Browsing my usual comics sites, I came across this:

Brilliant and simple idea - each landmass is rotated 180 degrees.

Please, please, please can someone produce maps for EU, Vicky and HOI like this? Change geography, change gameplay - and boy, what a twist this would be!

 

[Nippon]

Malay Peninsula cannot into existence.

 

[aruon]

australia will still be called "the down under" *sad trombone*

 

[klopkr]

10/10 would play on it.

 

[vyshan]

Nice map, though not strictly acruate for a south-orinated map. Below is a better south orianted map IMO

 

[Dr.Livingstone]

Nice map, though not strictly acruate for a south-orinated map. Below is a better south orianted map IMO

I think that's part of the joke.

 

[leemys2004]

Look at Japan and Britain...they switched each other!?

 

[Maarten99]

Look at Japan and Britain...they switched each other!?

Look at north & south america ^^ they just rotated the "major" landmasses.

 

[Will Steel]

Southern India, all those little islands, and that insignificant 'continent' are all gone.

 

[vyshan]

*points up to my more accurate south-orianted map*

 

[Barkingdragon13]

Ew

 

[Charzy]

*points up to my more accurate south-orianted map*

I think you may have missed the joke.

 

[sdms]

*points up to my more accurate south-orianted map*

I think it's not about having an entire world upside down but only landmasses. This way you are getting the whole new world with some countries having different neighbors, new climate etc. Should be fun

 

[vyshan]

I think you may have missed the joke.

apparently so what is the joke


Though I am curious how difficult it would be to do a south-oriented map in any paradox game?

 

[Sernista]

The map hasn't been projected differently (IE: South is up), the joke is that the individual landmasses have been physically inverted while keeping their center-points roughly constant. North is still up, South is still down, but Argentina, Canada, Russia and the now poorly named South Africa are all equatorial, where India, Guatemala and Algeria are now deep polar regions. The geo-spatial relationships between places have been vastly altered, and at the same time their climate and so forth. In effect, it's an entirely new world, whose land-forms happen to resemble rotated versions of things that exist on our Earth. For example, Japan and Taiwan remain just off the Eastern coast of the Eurasian continent - but that now places them next to France and Iberia, rather than China and Korea; Cuba is off the coast of Seattle, Sri Lanka is likely a Russian territory, the Scandinavians likely have extensive trade relations with the Philippines, etc. etc.

 

[steveh11]

I think it's not about having an entire world upside down but only landmasses. This way you are getting the whole new world with some countries having different neighbors, new climate etc. Should be fun

The map hasn't been projected differently (IE: South is up), the joke is that the individual landmasses have been physically inverted while keeping their center-points roughly constant. North is still up, South is still down, but Argentina, Canada, Russia and the now poorly named South Africa are all equatorial, where India, Guatemala and Algeria are now deep polar regions. The geo-spatial relationships between places have been vastly altered, and at the same time their climate and so forth. In effect, it's an entirely new world, whose land-forms happen to resemble rotated versions of things that exist on our Earth. For example, Japan and Taiwan remain just off the Eastern coast of the Eurasian continent - but that now places them next to France and Iberia, rather than China and Korea; Cuba is off the coast of Seattle, Sri Lanka is likely a Russian territory, the Scandinavians likely have extensive trade relations with the Philippines, etc. etc.

Exactly.
I think England's relations with Korea across the Welsh Channel could make interesting play, for example.

 

[spiller68]

this would be an interesting map to play on

 

[sdms]

Exactly.
I think England's relations with Korea across the Welsh Channel could make interesting play, for example.

Incas conquest of Mamluks sounds interesting

 

[Will Steel]

Somalian pirates terrorizing the Atlantic?

 

[Davisx3m]

South America looks like a starving Africa