• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I was very confused by the shape of this United Kingdom. For reference, this is what it + the non-UK part of Ireland actually looks like:

    I’m guessing, they left out all the islands, but even then, it still doesn’t look terribly accurate to me, so no idea…

    Edit: Added clarification about Southern Ireland.

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      8 months ago

      Careful what you call United Kingdom! They left out Ireland because it’s not part of UK

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        8 months ago

        Ah yeah, good point. I was very confused by Southern Ireland missing on their map, too, but my comment made it sound like that’s part of the UK.

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          8 months ago

          You also want to be careful using terms like ‘Southern Ireland’. Northern Ireland is a thing, and the Republic of Ireland is a thing…

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            8 months ago

            Yes, I decided to call it “Southern Ireland”, because I doubt many people outside of Europe will know which one of the two Irelands is the “Republic of Ireland”.

            I did look up beforehand, if I’m allowed to say “Southern Ireland” without being crucified and Wikipedia said yes maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ireland

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      They rotated it slightly to get the south coast more horizontal and binned off most islands (the Shetlands and Orkneys I can understand but the Isle of Man wasn’t in the way).so they could pack more into the space.