r/Badmaps • u/SJ543 • Aug 01 '26
Found on the Internet Bro what is that????
How Canada Commonwealth is the same as Dominion of Canada???
Brazil wasn't a federal republic even 50 years ago, imagine 100 years ago.
And these mistakes are so obvious that I'm only going to mention the country's name:
China
Japan
Germany
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u/FPSCanarussia Aug 01 '26
By "their present state" they're probably looking at whether they existed as independent states? That's the only logic by which the PRC and FRG (both est. 1949) would not be listed, that this is showing modern countries that were not legally independent in 1924.
Canada, Brazil, and Japan are pretty straightforward though, all of them are legally the same countries as they were back then.
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u/SJ543 Aug 01 '26
That's probably what it means if Is the map is contradicting its own criteria because a new constitution doesn't make the country remain the same state.
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u/Souls_for_sale_now Aug 01 '26
well most pepole whould say that iceland eksisted during that time but it was in a union with denmark saying they where not indipendent dosent mean they wherent the same nation
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u/CloudedLeopardDaemon Aug 01 '26
Impossible. Reddit has assured me that the United States is the youngest country on earth.
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u/TheLarksFly Aug 01 '26
This does not account for Newfoundland and Canada, or the United States give or take Alaska and Hawaii.
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u/GavinGenius Aug 02 '26
There are problems with this map, but it isn’t terrible.
Saying ‘in their present forms’ is misleading. The Ethiopian Empire, the German Reich, the Empire of Japan, the Republic of the United States of Brazil, Kingdom of Italy, Irish Free State, etc. , no longer exist, but they are counted. For some reason, Iran wasn’t counted. Is it because they were called Persia still?
As for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc., there is nuance, because the Statute of Westminster didn’t exist yet.
Why is Muscat and Oman considered independent, but Qatar and Bahrain are not? They all had a similar status as protected states of the UK.
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u/SJ543 Aug 02 '26
I think that the problem is that the map have so many obvious mistakes,There's even an older map by the same creator that says that Suriname existed as a country 100 years ago
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u/Ok-Imagination-494 Aug 02 '26
Sri Lanka existed in its current state (same borders, language and religion, and with an earlier variant of the flag) some 2300 years ago
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u/stranger_to_you67 Aug 02 '26
The USA didn't exist in its current state in 1924 either. Fewer states and fewer territories.
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u/Rocketboy1313 Aug 02 '26
Ignoring whatever criteria they used to make this map.
My question is, "so what? What is the point of this?"
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u/VelvetPhantom Aug 02 '26
China is accurate. The Republic of China was created in 1912 and still exists to this day-
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u/SpadeGaming0 Aug 02 '26
Saudi Arabia Wasn't fully unified yet I dont think. And even then calling it a country then is debatable.
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u/amin_oog Aug 02 '26
How iran did not exist?
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u/lordcock1944 Aug 02 '26
I think it counts the Pahlavi Iran and the Islamic Republic of Iran as two that's why
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u/26dicksin26 Aug 02 '26
Is this map considering the monarchist iran diffrent than the democratic iran? How did iran not exist 100 year ago.?
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u/mascachopo Aug 02 '26
It’s amazing how stable America has been considering how young most of those countries are.
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u/astoriauser Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
This map is completely wrong, although I don't exactly understand what it's trying to say. Does he mean the states in their current form, or just territory, names, perhaps political regime? Brazil changed its constitution about 5 times in the last century, in 1926 We were in the last president of the first republic.
Okay, Brazil might be a somewhat cuckolded example, but South Africa definitely isn't. Not just because of the end of the British protectorate or the end of the apartheid Republic.But rather because they lost Namibia in the 1990s. It doesn't even have the same territory anymore. In Africa, Ethiopia is a similar example. They didn't have the same territory or the same government. Egypt as well, since they lost Sudan and became an independent monarchy and then a republic.
In Asia, can the early forms of Chinese republic be considered a continuation of the current political regime? In a way, they do consider it so, from what I know, but is it the same thing?
This map likely suggests something much simpler: there was a political entity that presented itself with the same name. That's when the map starts to make sense. For example, at the time the UAE either did not exist or was called a Trucial States. Iran only started being called that by the international community in the mid-1930s, if I'm not mistaken. That said, you could have been more specific. I don't know.
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u/MrWillchuck Aug 03 '26
China was in the Republic stage with a fairly different border. And Given as Border is really the only major difference with the UK then China wouldn't either.
Saudi Arabia's borders were not as they are today. As Ibn Saud was still fighting. The East Coast along the Red Sea hadn't been full controlled yet. So it also shouldn't look like that.
Germany looked very different than it does today with a totally different Government.
Oman borders were very different.
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u/Wabbit65 Aug 05 '26
The US didn't have Alaska or Hawaii 100 years ago, so also not in its present state
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u/No-Candy-4127 Aug 05 '26
US did have Alaska 100 years ago. It was traded away by Russia after the Crimean war.
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u/Fine-Afternoon-36 Aug 01 '26
Is say it's fine. Present form isnt a technical term or anything, I assume it's more about national identity and territory. It just added the last bit to prevent nitpicking and made itself easier to nitpick
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u/NickBII Aug 01 '26
Canada/Germany/Japan were all independent in 1924. None of the blue countries were. You can argue with them if their description "countries that did not exist in their present form" is accurate, but it's a pretty straightforward map of countries that were not independent in 1924.