This is apparently a map made in preparation for a Polish occupation of England by the Warsaw Pact, with phonetic place names. May amuse people in or from SE England. DAAAAAHN to MAGYT. I think my favourite is Czypyng-Onga though.
SAUFEND replacing the TH with a F. ACCURATE. Nice to see RAMFED on there, but my hometown seems to be hidden under the hatching. This is MY KIND of topic by the way. I've just bought this to hang in the study.
Lucky the daily thread has gone all SERIOUS or I might have bunged it in there instead of starting a new thread
Basildon is missing which makes sense 'cos it was built post-war, but I've just spotted it's now-suburb PYSTII.
Of course. And "Billericay-Dicky" appears to be the name of a SONG by an artist who isn't Kylie or Britney.
Oh I thought FEREK was FERRY! Thurrock makes much more sense. I keep spotting new things. This is a DYSTRYKT LINE TRAIN to APMYNSTE
https://www.boldtuesday.com/products/list-of-countries-travel-poster I noticed CONTROVERSIALLY that they include Taiwan in with PRC.
I I guess this is not a bestseller right now https://www.boldtuesday.com/product...354680418&pr_ref_pid=380660161&pr_seq=uniform
Fun GEOGRAPHY FACT I discovered during ASFM. My host nation St Kitts and Nevis does not recognise the PRC.
I think quite a few Carribbean nations get a lot of funding and infrastructure from Taiwan in exchange for them recognising them as the true China. I THINK.
As I posted somewhere else, http://old.reddit.com/r/mapporn has so much good stuff. It has ruined many nights of sleep for me
Human Development Index (a combination of quality of life stuff that I can't remember the exact details of) by parts of countries
It's not really talked about as much, but there is so much diversity of development in Central/South America