Exclaves have been ignored :(
I was looking for the French-Brazilian border, or the Spain-UK one.
It’s facinating to see, that only Lichtenstein seems to have to cross 2 countries to reach the ocean for trading.
Uzbekistan as well since the Caspian Sea is not an ocean.
It made me think about that “maps only need 4 colors” (I don’t remember the proper name, but it’s an idea that maps with political borders can paint every state/country/whatever using 4 different colors and you’ll never get the same color bordering another), seems like the perfect opportunity to see if it applies here
Here’s a way to do it https://i.imgur.com/YULx0sg.jpeg
East Africa and the Balkans took a little bit of figuring out
Edit: and sure enough, there’s actually a mistake in East Africa. DR Congo and Tanzania shouldn’t be the same colour. I think it can be fixed with the following changes:
- Eritrea, Somaliland, and Kenya > green
- Djibouti and Somalia > blue
- Ethiopia > red
- Tanzania > cyan
- Zambia > blue
- Mozambique > red
- Malawi and Eswatini > green
It’s the Four Color Theorem.
And well, it’s actually mathematically proven, but not for maps with disjointed regions that need to be colored the same, such as Alaska + mainland USA.
(In that particular case, it’s not too difficult to resolve, but you don’t get a guarantee for it.)The map in the post actually merges such disjointed regions, though, so it absolutely should work there.
Bolivia shares a border with Argentina. They got that wrong on this map.
France has a land border with Brazil - in fact, it’s its longest border with any country. But I realize that non-contiguous countries pose quite a challenge for this type of layout.
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Like all maps, this one needs a date. For example, Canada and Denmark now share a land border (Hans island)
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Interesting that this map does have Palestine (presumably the West Bank and east Jerusalem) but doesn’t consider Gaza part of Palestine.
That’s quite a unique combination.
Edit: looking at Azerbaijan, I think they just focus on the biggest landmass and ignore exclaves.
Edit2: the fine print actually says that they ignore exclaves, except for Malaysia.
Maybe it’s just considering de facto control? Israel currently controls the whole Egypt-Palestine border, so there’s no land controlled by any form of Palestinian government that has a border with Egypt
Edit: or it’s an artifact of the “exclaves have otherwise been ignored” part, if the West Bank is considered the core and Gaza is an exclave of that
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