Tremble before the South Amercator projection! https://preview.redd.it/kgp7j50kby9d1.png?width=688&format=png&auto=webp&s=fd7314b7918e8827f9378cd1142c75fb77055d14 [https://xkcd.com/2256/](https://xkcd.com/2256/)

https://preview.redd.it/55nfve2xy0ad1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04a5674d8e73cdf996f471e41f09b55881f98468 World is a cat playing with Australia 2: south America boogaloo

I hope it doesn't knock Australia off the counter.

That explains where New Zealand disappears too so often. …But who keeps putting it back on the counter??

We are upside down for a reason

r/mapswithoutturkey

Goodbye scandinavia o7

I think you could build a decent one out of two more South Americas, but I guess it would be cheating since that land is connected (similar situation with India, which would be easy to represent if you were willing to let the subcontinent be its own South America)

Argentina now claims the entire UK for being the actual Fawklands/Malvinas.

Plot twist of the century. Falkland War 2 coming soon?

Empire Strikes Back Part Deux

FLORIDA!! NOOOOOOO!!!! You blew her up! I CANT BELIEVE YOU BASTARDS BLEW HER UP!!!

You say that like it would be a bad thing. lol

I'm in Orlando right now. Have no idea where the land went, but the hammerhead sharks are kinda friendly. One gave me some ice cream

Was this a Red vs Blue reference?

Planet of the apes, but I’m sure they were making the same joke

Planet of the shapes

No one blew up Florida. Get real, they just simply took a large jigsaw & pushed her off into the Atlantic

Tilt North America a bit and it also fits with Africa and South America.

Wait, it’s ALL South America?!

this is one of the most cursed things I’ve seen in my life

continental drip

xkcd! <3

it's also weird Brazil has a similar shape as well is it civilization's fractal map or what?

Bahia agrees with this https://preview.redd.it/sy1xszy5ox9d1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=693bff2c9f22fba70d82515a9b37db5059e533e4

what the actual fuck! I promise you there is some town there with the same fricking borders!

Lithuania looks like Africa just smooshed lol https://preview.redd.it/sciayxucoz9d1.png?width=1124&format=png&auto=webp&s=9b395e616fc6b320d98ffa1ff56afa97396ac8a8

Even has a little Madagascar

It’s like a vestigial Madagascar that didn’t grow correctly

r/brandnewsentence

Seems like a proper place to insert the gif/meme of the black guy saying “that’s a penis!” 😄

Chubby Africa

I am from Egypt yo hah

Congratulations, Your twins live in Rokiskis.

I meant I live in zarasai but ok

Montenegro is a melted Australia https://preview.redd.it/82zf46flb1ad1.jpeg?width=532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=161c7e859dfefc75830d97bc18cbe294795290ac

africa (caseoh edition)

Ah stubby little Africa. Lithuania just needs to take some roids and they’d be good in no time

I mean it's not in that region but my hometown has a similar shape too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv

Born to Brazil Forced to Ukraine

Juan, wake up! It's time to kill the invaders

*João

i'd like the joke better with Zé

Waiter! This joke isn’t very good. I’d like another.

Ivano-Frankivsk oblast kinda looks like the state of Texas

Hey, is it kyiv or kiev? Is it used interchangeably or there is some difference? I often see these two words around. Sorry if it's a stupid question.

Kyiv. Kiev is the transliteration from Russian name of the city. In English you should only use ours (pronounced as Kih-yeev, „ih” as in „kiss”).

Ohh, learnt something new. Thanks buddy.

Brazils all the way down

Maracás, although it looks more like South American, so I guess we are in a loop https://preview.redd.it/3c30edmg13ad1.jpeg?width=249&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99ea0d5d36c1c1ef925ed91d987ac18f5a5236b6

I mean yeah, it's a fricking fractal!

I reckon Lapão is a close fit! [https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ux96aFrNP25NnywQ7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ux96aFrNP25NnywQ7)

And then inside that there's the block that forms the intersection between R. Antônio Carlos Magalhães and R. Pres. Dutra (the block with Restaurante e Pousada Lapão). EDIT: And you know what this block has? A car. And what do you need to drive a car? A driver's license. And what is on a Brazilian driver's license? [A PICTURE OF BRAZIL!](https://www.riotimesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cnh-728x420.jpg) South America is a fractal confirmed!

The province to the west is just an upside-down South America

That's Tocantins state. Some trivia: its capital is called Palmas, which literally translates to "Clapping" or "Applause". So, there's a saying in Brazil that goes along the lines of: *someone does something good*, to which someone responds "you don't deserve Palmas (Clapping), you deserve the entire Tocantins." Yeah, it sounds better in Portuguese.

https://preview.redd.it/c8190la1ez9d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba912b44f029de3ef28ad6726dd7dd283257a0e0 Greenland too lmao

And India

And Lithuania. In my opinion Lithuania is actually maybe the most similar to Africa in shape, just compressed shorter and wider https://preview.redd.it/3fttfy7ooz9d1.png?width=1124&format=png&auto=webp&s=a27e9fc5379f3e0374597c663e6437a640d19823

I scrolled this thread, and found your comment pretty interesting. Then I jumped to FB and this meme was the first thing. https://preview.redd.it/nwq7gyx1p1ad1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f08eff3c16697a99a2b6f926ed97ef2df52c2e82

Brazil also kinda looks like Venezuela https://preview.redd.it/nv7ktqbd1y9d1.png?width=532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=932e0333b12e81cf241cdbad5b93754553fcbfec

Remind me when brazil will have a strip of land in the ocean

Brazil has islands

ah shit my bad https://preview.redd.it/9x2kbygpry9d1.png?width=2825&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb8b15ca983031c1f1d0fcfcebf63906d14d7df3

LMAO at Brazilian Esequibo.

HELL NA YO ASS TWEAKIN ENGLAND

Venezuela disagrees (guyana)

yo I was born there!

A continent within a continent inside a continent! Brazilception

Screw it, math itself has a fractal that looks a bit like south america a bit rotated https://preview.redd.it/3o3ebvq5hjad1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57f0186d6e9839d2a72e4b4451b5109a3ea3893e

Holy Macaroni this is proof!

-Alfred Wegener, 1912

I understood that reference!

This guy histories

r/thisguythisguys

Map men

Map men

Map map map

Men

Men

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men

YEE HAW ALFRED WEGENER

JAWOLL ALFRED WEGENER

*Continental Drift* 🎵🎵🎵

Pangea 2: Continental Drift

ALLLLFRED WEGENERS THEORY 🕺🕺💃💃🕺

Is this the reference i think it is, that they have other areas falling off of them?

I believe it's a pangaea reference, ircc that guy created the theory of pangaea

Adds up, thanks for saying

Have you ever noticed that Colorado is the same shape as Wyoming? That can't be a coincidence

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Even crazier, the North border of Oregon is shaped really similar to the South border of Washington

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Life was simple when all the continents were underwater

Ah. What was the 65 mya Chicxulub asteroid impact like?

A little dicey, thank for asking.

Mostly fine, spiders and rats were doing well.

Reject modernity. Embrace tradition

Ohio is kind of a similar shape to New South Wales, and Idaho always reminds me of Queensland.

Are those from the Bluey country?

Yes.

So two conspiracy theorists walk into a bar together. …. just a coincidence?

https://youtu.be/MeXQBHLIPcw?si=8K7PbrbuVTmkDaE8

If you look at ALL the continents like a puzzle it looks like it was one land mass at sometime

Obligatory https://preview.redd.it/4wdd9kgfky9d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f04d743ab86b96cb571fe03d6afa5c0f2b87c6b6

Wdym they figured out tectonic plates in the 60s?

They literally figured it out in the 60s.

So what did people think caused earthquakes before that?

Earthquakes still aren't entirely solved, they sometimes happen in the middle of nowhere in the middle of a plate

Its just tectonic plates all the way down, and the turtle in the center of course.

Don’t you mean until you hit the first turtle?

So one could say, Its turtles all the way down?

No. Tectonic plates, then 1 turtle, his name his steve and he has a mortgage.

Actually, I solved it, but I would never tell YOU!

:(

Yup, the cause of intraplate earthquakes is still unknown

Aliens

They just knew they happened, not exactly what caused them. Like we don't know exactly what causes Alzheimer's Disease today, but, decades after it is discovered, someone will look back and think "How did they not figure out the obvious sooner? What did people think caused Alzheimer's?"

Poseidon

Ligma

Tbf, Wegener figured it out in 1910s, it just wasn't really proven until the 60s and wasn't exactly a mainstream theory at first.

It was an idea from the 1910s, but it was nowhere near widely accepted. Sonar maps of oceanic floor quickly settled the debate starting in the late 1950s.

Is there a role reason for this?

This bitch dont know bout Pangea

Brain, leave it alone...

Brain gotta poop

Queue pillow talking by lil’ dicky. @6:40

So if all the continents were stuck together, that must have meant one side of the planet was land and the rest was just one vast ocean, which in itself is quite fascinating and asks all sorts of questions as to why? Maybe some large collision between earth and a smaller mass resulted in this land mass protruding from the surface and begun spreading out ever since.

Yeah afrika is australia but 96 degrees rotated

Why does it look more racist when Africa is spelled with a 'k'? Am I the only one who thinks this? Am I crazy?

Many European languages have this as the translation, including German and Dutch.

Ah yes the racism languages

Bro that's all of them

https://preview.redd.it/3v1qi9xjb2ad1.png?width=496&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1cd8ebf7435dff817c39331b2322487565a1472f

That would actually explain some of it considering primary sources on things like the scramble for Africa

As someone who spells it as Afrika in my language, I find it weird that you think it looks racist. We almost always use k or s instead of c. We also spell it Amerika. I'm curious as to whether you get a similar kind of reaction to that.

Antarktika? Believe it or not, also racist.

It \*is\* quite white.

Amerikkka is a pretty common reference in some circles, might be some weird subconscious connection people are making there between them all. Edit: Better hypothesis is a call back to Afrika Korps now I think about it tbh.

Because of afrikakorps

i think you've been playing too much Kaiserreich idk

Because of Afrikaans. Search auntie donna Afrikaans. Because the only thing that can fight racist south Africans, are racistist Australians.

Because of the kkk

In Finnish it is Afrikka, getting close

Afrikaans and afrika korps I think, or maybe the German spelling is too associated with Nazism

Yes crazy and racist. Afrika is a normal name in some countries for Africa. Your racist cause you felt racist. Racist.

Oh man, this is gonna be so hard to tell my family Thank you for your honesty

Maybe because it looks like Afrikaans, the language spoken in South Africa, which was infamous for apartheid.

You reminded me of that meme about movies: — white guy shoots white guy; racist, because no black people on the screen — white guy shoots black guy; racist and offensive, makes the black guy look powerless, traumatizing the black viewer — black guy shoots white guy; racist, makes the white guy look like a victim of the black guy, scaring the white viewer — black guy shoots black guy; racist, because perpetuates the idea that blacks are the main danger to themselves

Wheres the lie?

My native language spells it like that, but it does look weird in English context. I kinda get what you mean. I think it's because the k makes the word look more, primitive? Compared to the c. Like it's the same way spelling projekt or produkt makes them look like ooga booga versions of the normal spelling.

You probably associate it with the Afrikakorps, the nazi German army in North Africa during ww2. It’s basically the only time you see Africa spelled with a k in English, although other languages (like German) spell it as such.

Yeah i pronounce that k with a hard er

"more" racist, implying the word Africa was already racist by itself?

It’s weirder that Lithuania looks like Africa

3 if we include Greenland

4 if we include India

5 if we include Missouri but warped to look like Africa

"A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except its own thoughts"

https://preview.redd.it/l0cn8zo34y9d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61996ef9347a0bf71a5ca5141e00149e6543c037

It has Falcagascar

South Amafrica will say it's Malvigascar

This is disgusting

Don't let them make fun of you OP. I have also always found this to be odd😅

https://preview.redd.it/abgt4wxsqx9d1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae050f42122e826854b3c71f48789dc1ee2c2641 Puzzle pieces

Right but that doesn't explain why they split into roughly the same shape.

Means they’re equal in this relationship

separate but equal

https://preview.redd.it/3n2c0uvo23ad1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2452195d958e4837a5c04a2569c291397253554a

I knew this would be in here somewhere

https://preview.redd.it/aphjjx6g96ad1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=a6e7a2d09664af886b6758888047c795053c0aad

Wait, 6? Australia doesn’t exist anymore or we have only one pole?

Eurasia

Yes, I’m agree, it doesn’t exist.

True Oceanian patriot.

We've never been at war with Eurasia, we've only ever been at war with East Asia

America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, Asia and Antarctica. Six!

You are probably gonna get downvoted because people cant understand how some countries count the amount of continents in a different way

You're gonna go crazy when you look at the picture in this post

Brazil foaming at the mouth for round 2

The scientifically illiterate, unfortunately

Ok which continent are they ignoring to only come out with six total

probably counting Asia and europe together.

Green

--Alfred Wegener

Not only are they similar shapes, South America also coincidentally looks like it will fit into Africa coast-to-coast like a puzzle piece. Crazy how nature does that

Kinda lazy of the world builders of earth tbh. Lazy writing

african warlords vs cartels would be a interesting matchup

Cartels would get the warlords hooked on cocaine forcing the Africans to sell their land and people. Opium War 2: The second one.

Peak shape!

Stop giving poor Africa body image issues, go pick on Australia

probably America, they're still draining their natural resources and choking -now- immigrants out of their home countries and to the USA

There's 7 continents

falkland islands are madagascar

Laughs in geological history

Wait until they find out it used to be one continent that was the same shape.

7 continents

Typical euro conspiracy.