• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    cool graphic, but why did they decide to make the tall peaks the same color as the “too small for the scale” areas?

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      9 days ago

      The long ‘island’ north of Iceland and the long island to the left are probably the inhabited parts of Greenland. The north of Canada and the North of Russia seem to be very sparsely populated, too. So are the arid regions of Africa and Saudi-Arabia. According to my interpretation of this map.

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      9 days ago

      After looking closely at the cropped image found on reddit, I think the southward pointing notch (‘bay’) of the Mediterranean is in fact part of the Sahara desert. The blue area next to that then is the Nile delta with the tall peak, Cairo. Palestine then starts next to the dark corner on the right from it.

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