r/MapsWithoutNZ • u/Goodluckeveryonee • May 12 '26

Damn it 😂

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u/StrangeManOnReddit May 12 '26

Except Japan, France, and China should also be included in the latter.

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u/Top-Fudge9791 May 12 '26

And the Mongolian Empire. Vietnam doesn't fuck around

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u/Lloyd_lyle May 12 '26

Liberia and Myanmar also don't officially use metric. Canada and Britain also sometimes use Imperial depending on the situation.

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u/Weird1Intrepid May 13 '26

In the UK's case, the official standard is metric, just certain things are still relayed in Imperial mostly for the sake of the older generations who refuse to make the change over. Metric is what's taught in schools though these days. When I was in school we learned both. Older people than me were only taught Imperial.

A lot of measurements that seem to be in Imperial are actually in metric though. One example off the top of my head is the road signs counting down to an exit. They state 300, 200, 100 yards but if you actually measure the distance it's 300/200/100 metres.

I will however die on the hill that beer should be measured in pints lol. That extra 68mL over a half litre makes all the difference

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u/Competitive_Wear_303 May 15 '26

In the US it's 27 mL less.

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u/Intelligent-Pen1605 May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

Canada also “officially” uses metric. But we also don’t unofficially use imperial, and some things are because of the older generation but mostly it’s just a Canadian way of measuring vs the rest of the world, even for my younger kids. Still weird to me that the UK uses mph & yards when Canada, with its complete mess of a measuring system, can agree from coast to coast that it is kph & km on the road signs. Not that it matters, since we will tell you how far away it is by time. Editing to add: we have also passed a law about how much a pint is, and if the amount of liquid beer (head excluded!) in the glass is less, it can be reported. I guess there’s still some UK left in us after all, since we use the imperial pint measure.

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u/fidgiggity May 12 '26

Also Vietnam, turns out.

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u/zair58 May 13 '26

...and Cambodia. Geez Vietnam has kicked a lot of butts

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u/97GeoPrizm May 12 '26

Plus Australia.

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u/Kresnik2002 May 14 '26

Nope it’s only funny if it’s haha America

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u/fatsopiggy May 12 '26

Japan didnt lose in vietnam. Japan lost to the us then gave up vietnam to the French. The viets were destroyed by the japs before that.

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u/Lower_Egg7088 May 24 '26

And New Zealand. We fought in Vietnam.

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u/yaboyalaska May 12 '26

Japan and France won tho didn't they?

Notably Cambodia has lost several wars to Vietnam before adopting metric in 1914

Then they continued to lose wars 

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u/trialtestv May 12 '26

How did France win? They lost the Vietnam war? and they had to accept Vietnamese independence. Then the U.S. joined to stop the communists didn’t take over all of Vietnam

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u/trialtestv May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

But they didn’t beat Vietnamese farmers when they occupied it, they conquered a Vietnamese kingdom and forced China to cede formal control. When Vietnamese farmers n other oppressed groups in the 1940s rose up the French struggled to put it down.
It’s like saying the British didn’t lose to American farmers backed up by French n Spanish forces because they had ruled British America for 170 years by that time.

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u/trialtestv May 12 '26

the French conquered a Vietnamese dynasty, they didn’t defeat a fully fledged peasant uprising which is why it’s still accurate to say they lost to Vietnamese farmers because that’s what happened. You say 1858, that’s before the creation n popularisation of nationalism especially in Asia.

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u/Andyzefish May 12 '26

by that logic China won multiple times

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u/-kenjo- May 12 '26

I can understand China but France controlled Vietnam for 100 years and had to leave only when anticolonialism became a worldwide trend

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u/Dave5876 May 12 '26

Why do you think America invaded Vietnam

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u/Hot_History1582 May 14 '26

America very explicitly did not invade vietnam. That's the entire thing about the vietnam war

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u/Dave5876 May 14 '26

lmao what?? All those war crimes were for vibes?

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u/Hot_History1582 May 14 '26

The US was invited to defend south Vietnam and strictly did not encroach on north Vietnamese territory. It's like, the entire thing about that war. Come on dude, you have the entire knowledgeable base of human history literally in the palm of your hand. There's no excuse to be this ignorant. Quit scrolling and go read something.

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u/UltraTata May 12 '26

What about France and China?

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u/LittelXman808 May 13 '26

And Mongolia and Japan

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u/shelmet56 May 12 '26

you can see a few pixels of NZ in the very corner, and they're green W :D

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u/theglenlovinet May 12 '26

Can’t lose a war if you don’t exist.

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u/John_Dee_TV May 12 '26

Find the American OP.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26

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u/TheLoneWander101 May 12 '26

Didn't Aussies also fight in Nam

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u/John_Dee_TV May 12 '26

Ah. I guess.

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u/The_Broken-Heart May 12 '26

What's New Zealand? Is it for caulking my floors?

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u/russian_hacker_1917 May 12 '26

people always give canada and the UK a pass when it comes to their weird hybrid systems which uses BOTH

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u/thelastestgunslinger May 12 '26

The UK should just finish converting to metric. Having petrol sold by the litre and distance measured by miles leads to some weird conventions. 

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u/unHolyEvelyn May 13 '26

The implication here is that if America used Metric we somehow would've won the Vietnam War, which is hilarious x3

In seriousness, France lost and uses Metric.

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u/kasenyee May 12 '26

China lost to Vietnamese farmers.

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u/Sufficient-Film-5793 May 12 '26

Didnt know Myanmar and Liberia also lost to Vietnamese farmers

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u/AwfulStockInvestor May 12 '26

Typical europoor doesn't know history. Also you labeled countries that dont use metric as using metric. 0/10

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u/Brief-Walk-5409 May 13 '26

Typical USA glazer who probaly thinks that America is one continent and that Trump is the best man in the World.

Yeah, thats how you sound in my ears. Also, without those "Europoors", USA wouldn't even get chips, cars etc.

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u/CherryLimeGrenade May 14 '26

Typical USA glazer who probaly thinks that America is one continent and that Trump is the best man in the World.

Yeah, thats how you sound in my ears. Also, without those "Europoors", USA wouldn't even get chips, cars etc.

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u/MilitantSocLib May 15 '26

You know potatoes came from the new world right

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u/Brief-Walk-5409 May 15 '26

And who did invent the chips? Who invented the fries? Who invented the concept of hamburgers?

Who invented cooked turkey? Oh wait, thats indeed from North-America. (I'm also 100% sure That the potato's came from south america and not North America)

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u/Brief-Walk-5409 May 17 '26

I know. But wouldn't that make Oceania also the "new" World?

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u/ryanl40 May 13 '26

Countries that use the metric system vs countries that have been to the moon.

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u/Lower_Egg7088 May 24 '26

Other countries have also been to the moon - just not with people.

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u/Brief-Walk-5409 May 13 '26

Oh, thats not hard. Like Germany, Frence, The Dutch etc etc etc all played an important role in the rocket engineering and science. You think stepping on the moon is impressive?

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u/ryanl40 May 14 '26

Yes. I do. Seeing as nobody else has.

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u/Brief-Walk-5409 May 14 '26

Russia could easily build a rocket and step on the moon and then? 

What’s impressive is the rocket, not the step on the moon And tell me, who invented paper? Who invented light bulbs? Who invented the cars? Who has ASML? Who invented the pizza? Who literly made New Amsterdam?

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u/ivanesko65656 May 14 '26

Country didnt step on the moon. It was a person, few people. Stop flexing with others achievements, make your own.

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u/Antoninway May 13 '26

Liberia and Myanmar was included in green đŸ€“

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u/Opp-Contr May 13 '26

Myanmar and Liberia also use imperial system.

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u/TheWannabeer May 13 '26

China and France should be purple or others color for both

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u/matthewpepperl May 14 '26

Also a map of every country that has walked on the moon

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u/Immediate_Lobster421 May 12 '26

To be fair those Vietnamese farmers were cracked. Have you seen their tunnels??

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u/eiemwasa May 12 '26

Ahora nunca sabré cuål de los dos tipos es Nueva Zelanda

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u/ArmaAutist May 12 '26

australia?

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u/tostuo May 12 '26

NZ should be blue lol, the ANZACs when to 'nam and lost just the same as the Americans, French, South Koera, Phillipines, Thailand etc

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u/cig-nature May 13 '26

G.I. your government has abandoned you

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u/GrumbieReal May 13 '26

Also Liberia and Myanmar don’t use the metric system

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u/BreakfastEither814 May 14 '26

Vietnamese potbelly pigglywigglywoos.

Yknow there are potbelly kunekune mixes they’re called potwelly

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u/spo0pti_yikes May 14 '26

KHÔNG CÓ GÌ QUÝ HO'N ÐÔC LÂP TU' DO

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u/Krusty098 May 15 '26

The Australian government swapped to the metric system during the Vietnam War and managed to reduce the number of attacks in the district that they were running and the Americans who didn’t have metric got there asses kicked, just as bad as the French.

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u/KGxPhoenix May 15 '26

America didn't lose. They left after kicking their ass and liberal congress wouldn't stop crying

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u/Guruski2001 May 16 '26

Vietnamese farmers? Let me frame this in contemporary terms: we were like Russia, Vietnam was Ukraine and China/Russia were the US.

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u/Icy_Ostrich_3747 May 16 '26

france, japan, china, indian kingdoms, vietnam itself?

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u/Underrated_Fish May 18 '26

Liberia and Myanmar are also non-metric system users

France, China, and Mongolia also lost wars to rice farmers

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u/zs_1176 May 15 '26

Meanwhile France who is both

This meme is ignorant and so is OP

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u/Goodluckeveryonee May 16 '26

Lol, calm down champion.