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The topologist’s world map (2020)

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Re: The topologist’s world map (2020)

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This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe.

Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain

And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might suggest Northern Ireland as well.

Re: The topologist’s world map (2020)

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I wonder how it would look like if we considered France's borders with the Netherland (at Saint Martin) and Brazil (at French Guiana).

It has both as exclaves: the France-Netherlands border in the group of islands at bottom left (nitpick: technically not a border with the Netherlands because St Maarten nowadays is an independent country in the kingdom of the Netherlands), just above Cuba, and the Belize exclave at the top of Brazil, bordering Surinam.

Re: The topologist’s world map (2020)

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This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe. Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might s…

It seems correct to me.

The map shows the country "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK) without separating its constituent countries. This is what most political world maps do.

Ireland does border by land to the UK, at the border of Northern Ireland. This is shown with the black line.

Also it borders to the UK and all of the world's ocean bordering countries which is shown through the surrounding blue.

Re: The topologist’s world map (2020)

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This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe. Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might s…

Presumedly they are counting the land border between Ireland and Northern Ireland (as part of UK), but it’s confusing with the water boundary called out between UK and France.

Re: The topologist’s world map (2020)

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This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe. Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might s…

Britain isn't on the map, the UK is. Boris forgot that the UK had a border with Ireland, don't be like Boris. The blue line of the channel could be thicker though.

Re: The topologist’s world map (2020)

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This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe. Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might s…

It seems correct to me. The map shows the country "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK) without separating its constituent countries. This is what most political world maps do. Ireland does border by land to the UK, at the border of Northern Ireland. This is shown with the black line. Also it borders to the UK and all of the world's ocean bordering countries which is shown through the surroundin…

It is a little inconsistent in that it shows the Bosporus dividing Turkey and even the Suez Canal dividing Egypt, but not the Irish Sea dividing the UK - though the first two are nominally continental boundaries.
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