9 Countries that Look Like Other Countries
2014. 09. 18. 9:48
Have you ever wondered what shape of the countries have like? Italy looks like boots, Macedonia like a brain, Chile is a worm... But the mind-blowing is when you figure out some countries look like other countries!
The Strange Maps blog posted recently a few maps they look similar to each other. In comments of the post there are few more discoveries, and I put all those toghether, and reproduced them by my style.
Some comments were about not so close similarities, so I didn't drawn all the suggestions, such as France and its province Finistere (remarkable through), Austria-Hungary and Texas, Australia rotated 90 deg and Africa, etc. On the images below you certainly will find further forced comparisons, but I found those awsome ideas. Enjoy!
In the past few months I saw the map of Donetsk region enought to accept it has a kind of shape as Luxembourg. If only we can say where Donetsk ends and Russia starts.
Mali and Niger are not just neighbours, they also have the same tail on the left. It's a petty their right side are different, but with a lazy eye the similarities are fair good enough.
Stop for a moment in Africa: the Lithuanians might think their country is shaped as a compressed and well-feeded mock-up of Africa. Even their flag is kind of African, so let's just listen the lithuanian national anthem, it's maybe an Amadou&Mariam song!
In case of Iran and the former Yugoslavia the similarities are not just accidental. The Eurasian mountain range crosses both countries, and both of them have Sea in the southwest.
Falling Yugoslavia apart step by step, in 2006 Montenegro became independent, following by Kosovo in 2008. They are not so close friends, but both of them look like crumpled tissues.
One of the most amazing similarities are between Krasnoyarsk Krai (Siberia, Russia) and Greenland. Their territory is almost the same: Greenland is 2.16 million sq kilometers, Krasnoyarsk is 2.4 million. Ironically there is a huge difference by "greenness": Krasnoyarsk is widely covered by pine forest in the South while Greenland not so much...
The most mind-blowing discovery is obviously in Portugal. If you look at the map of Portugal, then you pick up its southernmost province Algarve, turn it right by 90 degree, and scale it up, you will get an extra Portugal. If it were perfect, it would be a fractal.
Yeah, I know the maps above could disappoint you, if you are rigorous. But this will convince you for sure:
