Countries/provinces that look cool on the map

[Az]

"san", does that mean he's a saint or something?

I thought his name was Jose Marti.

[Gangerolf]

Originally posted by Winston
If you take Norway, Sweden and Finland together and turn them upside down, you've got the front half of a camel.

I'm not entirely sure whether there's hidden symbolism in that.

I can't see it Finland is the hump?

[GePap]

Well, depends who you want to make a "saint". Its not like San Martin was a saint either.

it was Jose Marti, what people want to call him besides that, well, whatever. Marti was an inspirational figure-got himself killed rahter quickly by the Spaniards.

[Az]

I know that. It was this other dude, A general (?) that led to Cuban independence, right? (eyes shut... must stay awake ..)

[GePap]

Just go to sleep, and dream of the "ladies of a united Latin America".....

As for the Cuban general, I don;t know who. They don;t really matter, as wel all know it was the gringos that did their "liberation".

[gsmoove23]

Something to change forever how you think of England.



P.S. Could someone walk me through how to attach an image from my PC to a post? I'm having trouble with it.

[Kuciwalker]

The US up to the Missouri river would be pretty cool

[RGBVideo]

I liked the Thatcher-image more than that, gsm.

[Giant_Squid]

Algeria is kind of interesting, jumping outward when you don't expect it to.

Australia to me looks more like some sort of giant lizard or pointy-nosed rodent having curled itself up, with Tasmania as the tail.

Kazakhstan looks kinda like a sea turtle, or, from the other direction, a fish.

[thinkingamer]

Originally posted by Azazel
which raises a fair question: why won't south america unite? ( except Brasil ). They already share the most important thing: language and religion.

The only reason for S. American to unite: beat Brazil in Soccer Besides that I really see no other reason to unite.

[optimus2861]

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[JCG]

Spain's somewhat to blame, indirectly...The colonial structure was rather loose and localized (in the New World itself, obviously everyone answered directly to Madrid...in theory), promoting the development of regional power groups/classes which grew to dislike each other. A more centralized colonial administration could have done wonders for stability and economic development...

IMHO, if Bolivar/San Martin/some of the other "liberators" were resurrected, they'd kill themselves at the sight of the squabbling mess South America has become....

PS: Israel/Palestine (whatever you want to call it, PC or un-PC) looks neat on the map, as well as pre-WW1 Germany and the original Roman Empire....

[Buck Birdseed]

Nova Scotia looks disturbingly like Sörmland.

Er, I like the shape of Tanzania. Nicely skull-like.

[Plan Austral]

Am I the only one who believes that Denmark looks like just ready to penetrate Sweden in the map?

[Plan Austral]

Originally posted by Tuomerehu
I liked the Thatcher-image more than that, gsm.

Please, post that image..