In the spirit of https://xkcd.com/2945/ , and having heard the adage that "Wars are God's way of teaching Geography to americans", I had just assumed it was some mortal's attempt at a method involving less "collateral damage".
Very unlikely. Many mistakes are small jokes. Norway, for example, has cities named Nynorsk and Bokmål, which are actually the names of two different standards of Norwegian language. Ukraine has a city named Salo, an obvious reference to salo the food. Denmark's capital is called Legoland on the map and located roughly where Billund is (the town with Legoland).
However, "Smalahove" is placed more or less exactly on the Norwegian town of Voss, which - among other things - is known (in Norway at least) for the dish "Smalahove", seared and boiled sheeps head.
Oh, cool catch! I had Smalahove as a link, so I must have noticed it was a food at some point, but I forgot to actually put the URL in. I didn't realize the connection to Voss, though.
- What is marked as "Andorra" should be "Catalonia", but should not be marked since it's not a country. Andorra is a city and a city-state, which should only be where it's marked as Andorra la Vella.
- What is marked as Catalonia is not even a real area, it's kindof Basque Country but shaped differently.
- All the cities are wrong, basically.
I guess it wanted to piss both independentists and non-independentists, since it's setting the two areas as different countries, BUT setting them wrong.
Found another one: The Hebrides are in the wrong place, should be off the coast of Scotland, not Ireland
EDIT: also, the North Sea and Barentz Sea named are swapped, I think. I’m not 100% that’s where the Barentz Sea precisely is and cant be bothered to check
Stalingrad (now Volgograd) looks to be where Kursk is.
Gulf of Finland is marked as "Gulf of Sweden".
But Koskenkorva is actually a town.
Carthago is Carthage in English, the state which existed in present day Tunisia from which Hannibal sailed and crossed the alps on elephants. Carthage was later destroyed by the romans.
- Beaujolais is in place of Lyon. Beaujolais is a wine region just north of it.
- "Tolose" is actually spelled "Toulouse"
- "Anduoillette" is actually Bordeaux. "Andouillette" (without the typo) is a pork sausage made from intestines. Typically french, but the region most associated with this food is in the opposite of the country, in the North-East.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 110 ms ] threadNo.. It's Bern
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#cite_note-fedcit...
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Túrin_Turambar
It has the same forced-to-BS-beyond-real-knowledge feel. It gets most of the outlines right-ish, but just hallucinates a bunch of other stuff.
Not only that but the official written languagein the cities named Bokmål and Nynorsk are exactly that, respectively.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5700.ct001785/?r=-0.179,-0.051...
It's a city.
Wikipedia agrees with me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms%C3%B8
There is scatological adage: "Whoever smelt it, dealt it."
However, "Smalahove" is placed more or less exactly on the Norwegian town of Voss, which - among other things - is known (in Norway at least) for the dish "Smalahove", seared and boiled sheeps head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vossevangen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalahove
- What is marked as "Andorra" should be "Catalonia", but should not be marked since it's not a country. Andorra is a city and a city-state, which should only be where it's marked as Andorra la Vella.
- What is marked as Catalonia is not even a real area, it's kindof Basque Country but shaped differently.
- All the cities are wrong, basically.
I guess it wanted to piss both independentists and non-independentists, since it's setting the two areas as different countries, BUT setting them wrong.
Not the mainland of Iceland, but it does pass through the Icelandic island of Grímsey, at least for the next couple decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grímsey#Arctic_Circle
https://youtu.be/hr03xF08qoU?si=XfI-yJSQ6A28QWTm
EDIT: also, the North Sea and Barentz Sea named are swapped, I think. I’m not 100% that’s where the Barentz Sea precisely is and cant be bothered to check
EDIT 2: Porto is actually a bit further south
EDIT re: your edit: Wow. You're noticing things faster than I can update the post!
Had to smile at the ideal of household being a city!
Gulf of Finland is marked as "Gulf of Sweden".
But Koskenkorva is actually a town.
Carthago is Carthage in English, the state which existed in present day Tunisia from which Hannibal sailed and crossed the alps on elephants. Carthage was later destroyed by the romans.
- Beaujolais is in place of Lyon. Beaujolais is a wine region just north of it.
- "Tolose" is actually spelled "Toulouse"
- "Anduoillette" is actually Bordeaux. "Andouillette" (without the typo) is a pork sausage made from intestines. Typically french, but the region most associated with this food is in the opposite of the country, in the North-East.
- "Marsupial" is Marseille