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We’ve decided to develop a map-guessing game that turns much of our existing content into an interactive experience. The goal is simple: grow our brand while making geography education more engaging and fun. What would you like to see in the game? Any ideas or features you’d love to play?
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Hungary lost far more land in the final treaty than even this brutal first draft proposed. Imagine losing two-thirds of your country twice.
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Spain isn't one flag pretending to be one country — it's several. This map is every region with a real, organized push to leave, and two of them have already tried it for real. a thread 🧵🗺️
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5/ Galicia, Andalusia and the Canary and Balearic Islands all have their own nationalist movements too, just quieter ones — mostly pushing for more autonomy rather than a break from Madrid.
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6/ Same country, at least half a dozen separate arguments about what 'Spain' even is. Follow @forummapping for more maps like this.
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Somalia's flag carries a single five-pointed star, historically said to represent the five regions where ethnic Somalis lived, including areas now in Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti.
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India grows more bananas than any country on Earth — and exports almost none of them. Data: Our World in Data (CC BY)
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Ethiopia's green, yellow and red tricolor, never redesigned under colonial rule, inspired the flag colors of many newly independent African states after 1957.
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The Angevin Empire, the Almohad Caliphate, Kievan Rus' — medieval Europe looked nothing like today's map.
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Kosovo's flag avoids any single ethnic group's traditional colors, showing instead a gold map of the country beneath six stars for six ethnicities.
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Flamingos on four continents - the range of these pink icons stretches from the Andes to India 🦩
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Bhutan's flag features a dragon clutching jewels, representing the country's own name for itself, Druk Yul, the "Land of the Thunder Dragon.
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Scandinavians barely think corruption exists at home — while over 90% of some southern Europeans say it's rampant. The perception gap is staggering.
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New Zealand, Australia, Samoa and Papua New Guinea all place the Southern Cross constellation on their flags, marking their position under southern skies.
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This empire ruled over 30 million people for a century, and not one ethnic group was ever the majority. Not Germans, not Hungarians — nobody. Here's what that patchwork actually looked like. a thread 🧵🗺️
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5/ It unraveled fast at the end. Hungary's parliament voted to end the union on 17 October 1918; within a month both Austria and Hungary had declared themselves republics, and the empire broke into the nation-states that still roughly outline Central Europe.
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6/ One crown, a dozen nations who never agreed on much — the tension outlived the empire by a century. Follow @forummapping for more maps like this.
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