Two great Africa maps 30Aug2008 The best part: there are no tigers in Africa.Hat tip to Scarlett Lion.Anyone got others?
“there are no tigers in Africa”
Ahem.
http://www.jhbzoo.org.za/adopt.html
No “wild” tigers, to be sure…..
This has been your Saturday afternoon pedantry moment and now, back to our regular programming….
What, no tigers in Africa??!! But even Obama has a tiger-beating stick from Kenya in his office!
Pyramids? Egypt is in Africa?? I thought it was in the Middle East…
I would’ve thought that the second map would be divided as follows:
North Africa – terrorists
West Africa – malaria
East+South Africa – AIDS
That’s not where Sudan is located, either.
Does the creator of the first map not understand the difference between country and continent?
Chris, when I was a kid in the early 70s, during the Black Power era, the map of Africa with the US inside it was a popular tshirt worn by many African Americans at the time. I lived in Washington DC during that time and it was common.
My favorite map, which I keep on my wall:
http://www.wall-maps.com/World/PetersProjection-over.gif
Notice how they mention the British Isles separately from Western Europe in the caption of the first map. As if they make such a big difference…
gotta love this one: http://www.popular-pics.com/American_view_of_the_World_Pictures.aspx
Mapping War Deaths
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=288