Map of USA labeled by an Aussie who's never been here...
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The one that got me is they somehow had heard of Missoula, a random small city in Montana. They had no idea where it was though.
Either watch Yellowstone or Big Sky TV (one of those Montana shows) or I'm guessing they had it confused with Missouri.
Thomas Jefferson had an...interesting plan for what the new states should look like and be named. Definitely more rectangular.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/248-friends-polypotamians-countrymen/
drawing a map of the states from memory is something I like to do from time to time if I’m bored and have a notebook with me.
If you draw one map of US and it’s horrible, then try a second time, the next one gets so much better.
If you draw one map of US and it’s horrible, then try a second time, the next one gets so much better.
Anyone think remembering spelling of states is hard now, that would have been brutal.
Our business is global, and we say pretty much the same. Either "3 hours west of Chicago" or "put a pin right in the middle of the USA and that's pretty close.
When people ask what it's like, I usually say rural-farming. But also "great place to live - no crime, traffic, good schools; but you would NEVER come here on vacation". That seems to resonate.
We had to do that for US history class in HS. Most would draw the outline to get the rough set up. Then the west coast and east coast was somewhat easy. Hit the southern. Most of us had a huge "no man's land" in the middle.
Left Canada is a good name for Alaska.
I appreciated the cameo by the Shetland Islands up in northern New England.
I appreciated the cameo by the Shetland Islands up in northern New England.
I had a Latin American history class in college. On the first day we walked into class and the prof was drawing free hand on the chalk board a map of Central and South America complete with all national borders and capitals. When he got done he said, "That is your midterm." It was a great way to actually learn that info and understand how the nations are related. As a side note he coined a term for people who live in the USA: United Statesians. This is because in the context of this class "Americans" really has a larger meaning.
I have often thought I need to draw a map for Africa but haven't gotten up the gumption to learn it. It is embarrassing how little I know about the countries on our second largest continent (by both area and population).
I frequently play Worldle and it amazes me how much of world's borders and names have changed since my elementary school days. I got lucky as I had the big world geography year before the breakup of the Soviet Union and half of eastern Europe subdividing.
I used to have a site where you labeled a blank map and it would correct you when you finished. I got pretty good at it until I could get Africa perfect, now I haven’t done it in five years and I bet I suck at it again.
I would do fine with Australia since I was in all the "states" (some are Territories, not states)
But once you get into the countries of central and Eastern Europe forget about it. And most of Africa is he same. Not only new countries but new names for a lot of them. Rhodesia, anyone?
But once you get into the countries of central and Eastern Europe forget about it. And most of Africa is he same. Not only new countries but new names for a lot of them. Rhodesia, anyone?
The islands in Asia get weird border-wise as well. I'd like to travel over there sometime but I was told that a man who walks through an airplane door sideways is going to Bangkok.
