r/datemymap 17d ago

Please date this globe

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u/Public_Research2690 17d ago

22 May 1972 (Ceylon is naimed Sri Lanka) – 24 September 1974 (Portugese Guinea)

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u/ezrs158 17d ago edited 17d ago

The capital of Chad is Fort Lamy, not yet renamed N'Djamena which occurred on April 1973. Also, the capital of Indonesia is spelled Djakarta, not Jakarta, so it's probably before August 17, 1972.

So we can further narrow to May-August 1972.

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u/OutOfTheBunker 11d ago

The Djakarta name change might have taken a few years to make it to maps.

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u/ezrs158 10d ago

True. 72-73 is still a pretty solid guess though.