To be honest, everything is in a straight line if wide enough or in the correct map projection...
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They also exist together on a sphere.
Ivory Coast 😔
just make the line bigger
Technically called "Côte d'Ivoire" I believe.
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By that logic, most of those countries' official names don't start with I, so the map is still wrong whichever way you do it.
No, just don't apply the official names to all of the rest, only the outlier we want to ignore. It's the scientific method.
Quite.
Is there a word for the type of ragebait when it's specifically posting something wrong, so that you get engagement from people telling you why you're a fucking idiot? It should be bannable offense regardless. OP going straight on the block list. Actually skimming their profile they look like a low-effort repost bot anyway
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Iberia anyone!
That's not a line, it's a fucking rectangle.
1: on the premise of being technically correct it is not because it's just two parallel lines that may or may not be continuous on a globe
2: being less literally minded you can either fill in the the negative space to make a thick line or draw a line through the middle, though as ominous ocelot points out lower:
All countries are in a straight line. If you make it wide enough.
Or long enough, as it's on a spheroid.
Or if you use a suitable projection. I'm pretty sure you can pick some really wild projection and make it work with another letter too.
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It's actually a curved line
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Côte d'Ivorie
It's weird they use this as their "English-language" name but I don't really have a point, just hoping to watch a thread become a comment shit show
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Did you know?
All countries are in a straight line?
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And all countries share a common border if you fold the map right 😉
*with their anglicized names
India, for example, has been traditionally referred to as Bharat (depending on language root) domestically and among the 100s of languages and dialects used there the name India is never used. Similar to Deutschland and Germany.
What about in the second official language of India, English? :P
The constitution uses "India" in English.
But yes they're the English names...
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That's nothing! All countries starting with a letter can be mapped onto the surface of an oblate spheroid.
I assume this is purely a result of the specific map projection used here. On an actual globe those lines are most likely neither straight nor parallel.
On a curved surface.
If you remove Russia, this is a strip that covers almost half of the remaining land mass. Not impressed.
Russia benefits heavily from this map projection
Really, it's this size:
fair enough should have said projected land mass but I think the fact that strip goes somewhat diagonal suggests that the total area distortion inside the strip and outside it (the lower side) will likely be similar (since this particular projection distorts more around the poles as far as I remember)
Fair!
Ialestine?
Iaza.
That's easily the case isn't it, the only question is how much distance is there between these two lines.
Why is Norway's coast highlighted?
It isn't – there are just so many fjords it's kinda highlighted by nature.
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