We all have geography lessons in school. And while we learn many interesting things about the maps and geography in them, there's always room for improvement.
So, today, let's look at these interesting maps of Europe that we picked and found online. After all, there's no wrong time to learn something new. And who knows, maybe you'll end up using these facts somewhere (maybe a trivia night?), unlike some things you were taught at school.
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Mer..credi! in France because you start to say Merde! and realize there are kids around ;-))
This one is both fascinating and quite scary. The relatively mild climate in the British Isles is, as I understand it, heavily reliant on the Gulf Stream. If that gets messed up because of climate change, we're fűcked!
Maps are leading us in nearly every step of our way. They are reachable to everyone - just a few presses and you can see Google or Apple Maps. But that wasn’t always the case.
The history of maps can be traced as far back as 5000 years ago. The first-ever maps were used to depict small areas in pictures. And there was no set of rules on how everything should be drawn, which made maps quite inaccurate.
Later, the map-making art was taken over by the Greeks and Romans. The most notable works of this mapping period were those of Claudius Ptolemaeus. He was a geographer, mathematician, and astronomer, who came up with longitude and latitude lines. And, well, that revolutionized European geographic thinking.
Ha, jokes on switzerland, the biggest, most popular and most expensive city isn't even the capital.
Only in an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman jokes. I'd say it was equally the French or the Germans.
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Because only Italians can make fun of Italians u_u
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Neighbours 🤷 the only odd one out is Scotland being mocked by *checking map* the Hungarians?
»Österreich. Es hieße besser Österarm, denn es ist arm an Stil und Charme. Kunst, Kultur und Renommee? Der Deutsche kennt's als Wiener Schmäh.«
I have a little poem about Belgium as well...may I spill the tea?
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Fr tho, the Belgians literally do not shut up about how stupid France and the Netherlands are. They keep imitating their accents. (I do the accents too but I at least have respect for those countries)
that why we frenchies do the same with "belgians jokes" :)
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Would say for Ireland it should be the English only. We've generally no issues with the Welsh or the Scots.
Denmar, Norway and Finland just crapping on Sweden. Well deserved I might add. :P
Pardon me, I’m bad at flags and locations, but Italy makes fun of themselves? Greece too? Wait what does Greece make fun of?
It would be one big US flag covering the entirety of Europe. This is about Europe making fun of each other, but usually friendly fun, and you get paid back likewise. The topic is usually specific behaviour (Belgians are never on time, Dutch are the impersonation of Scrooge, ...) and the results. I live in a part of a Dutch province which is separated from the rest of NL, but attached to Belgium. We are made fun of from both sides.
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This is c**p! I've never heard a Spanish person joke about a Portuguese! And the Irish and English take the p**s out of everyone, not just each other
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Notice that nobody jokes about the Swiss? How can you?! There is not a single Swiss with even only a trace of a sense of humor. None. At all. Ever. And there is nothing, absolutely nothing, funny about their depressing country.
Neutrality has its benefits, besides if they got The Swiss mad where would they hide all their money?
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It is not entirely accurate for the UK and Ireland. Don't forget the Welsh and Scottish because we all rip the pįss out of each other.
I have lived in Switzerland for 45 years and have never heard a joke about Austrians....
But is that bc in your 45yrs no Swiss had ever told a joke?
Load More Replies... Jepp, I was born in Poland but grew up in Germany. Can confirm that these two countries have a love-hate relationship! Lol
WTF Hungary? What did we ever do to you? I guarantee no-one in Scotland ever jokes about Hungary. No-one knows enough about the place to even know what to make fun of /jk
I love how the Baltics make jokes about Estonia, and then Estonia's off making jokes about Finland.
Milton Jones: why did I run up to doorbells and ring them, then run away? Just for the buzz...
Then, during the middle ages, there wasn’t much progress in the map-making scene. Most of the maps that were produced during this time were of monasteries, which were influenced by religious devotion. They were heavily decorated with angels and imaginary monsters.
However, the Islamic world made some progress in the map-making area. The most notable instance is of Al-Idrisi, an Arab scholar who produced numerous world maps and geography books that heavily influenced this scientific field.
After the Middle Ages, the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg pushed the monasteries out of the dominance of map production. Also, the printing process becoming more available resulted in the growth of major publishing houses. And they produced maps that were accessible to everyone, no matter their financial status.
Even more, improvements in mapping were brought about by the accessibility of public learning and the thirst for knowledge. Increasingly, maps started having more colors showcasing various aspects of the presented place.
Also, in the late 1700s, thematic maps started showing up; for example, those showing the spread of certain illnesses or the extent of a flood.
Now, the maps on our phones are made by using satellite systems and surveying techniques. With these tools, cartographers can measure everything with precision, which was never achievable before. And due to their precision, maps have become an irreplaceable aspect of nearly everyone’s life.
Did you learn something new from these maps? Share your discoveries with us in the comments!
Oh Dear, if this all goes tits up, I'm pretty sure Russia will go down the pan - so then it's goodbye Belarus and Serbia.
Fun short story. Company that outsourced to Switzerland wanted to enforce their policy to have at best 50% black workers, and then got very surprised and confused why this wasn't feasibly possible
For my country, yes ; for the cretins that run my country, no ; those people I'd rather put them in a hole in the ground and just fill it in whilst they're alive. Wars are not started by the people of a country, they are started by upstarts, despots and chancers using those people to fulfill their own deluded ambitions - think Putin and Netenyahu at the moment ; they won't win and people on both sides of their particular countries will suffer because of those two idiots unachievable delusions.
Depends on your definition of "speaks". UK schools teach foreign languages (which and whether it was compulsory varies over the years). However, they start late and are not very advanced by the time they finish. I did both French (5 years) and German (2 years) and I speak neither with any fluency.
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Interesting maps.. but none of this stuff is really important for school
There are so many facts wrong in this article that I would suggest deleting the entire thing, rather than trying to fix every mistake
I think this is per household, not per adult. Oops, I meant to comment on the last post, not general.
Wondering when those map creators will realize, that Turkey and Russia are Asian countries, not European. Far more than 50%, even more than 70% of their territories are on the Asian continent. So clearly not European.
Russia is both Turkey and can't make its mind up. Not everything depends on an arbitrary line on a map or someone's definition of a continent.
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There are so many facts wrong in this article that I would suggest deleting the entire thing, rather than trying to fix every mistake
I think this is per household, not per adult. Oops, I meant to comment on the last post, not general.
Wondering when those map creators will realize, that Turkey and Russia are Asian countries, not European. Far more than 50%, even more than 70% of their territories are on the Asian continent. So clearly not European.
Russia is both Turkey and can't make its mind up. Not everything depends on an arbitrary line on a map or someone's definition of a continent.
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