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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?
Hungary lost far more land in the final treaty than even this brutal first draft proposed. Imagine losing two-thirds of your country twice.
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.
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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.
6/ Same country, at least half a dozen separate arguments about what 'Spain' even is. Follow @forummapping for more maps like this.
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.
India grows more bananas than any country on Earth — and exports almost none of them. Data: Our World in Data (CC BY)
Ethiopia's green, yellow and red tricolor, never redesigned under colonial rule, inspired the flag colors of many newly independent African states after 1957.
The Angevin Empire, the Almohad Caliphate, Kievan Rus' — medieval Europe looked nothing like today's map.
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.
Bhutan's flag features a dragon clutching jewels, representing the country's own name for itself, Druk Yul, the "Land of the Thunder Dragon.
Scandinavians barely think corruption exists at home — while over 90% of some southern Europeans say it's rampant. The perception gap is staggering.
New Zealand, Australia, Samoa and Papua New Guinea all place the Southern Cross constellation on their flags, marking their position under southern skies.
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.
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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.
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.