However, "Smalahove" is placed more or less exactly on the Norwegian town of Voss, which - among other things - is known (in Norway at least) for the dish "Smalahove", seared and boiled sheeps head.
Oh, cool catch! I had Smalahove as a link, so I must have noticed it was a food at some point, but I forgot to actually put the URL in. I didn't realize the connection to Voss, though.
- What is marked as "Andorra" should be "Catalonia", but should not be marked since it's not a country. Andorra is a city and a city-state, which should only be where it's marked as Andorra la Vella.
- What is marked as Catalonia is not even a real area, it's kindof Basque Country but shaped differently.
- All the cities are wrong, basically.
I guess it wanted to piss both independentists and non-independentists, since it's setting the two areas as different countries, BUT setting them wrong.
- Beaujolais is in place of Lyon. Beaujolais is a wine region just north of it.
- "Tolose" is actually spelled "Toulouse"
- "Anduoillette" is actually Bordeaux. "Andouillette" (without the typo) is a pork sausage made from intestines. Typically french, but the region most associated with this food is in the opposite of the country, in the North-East.
Found another one: The Hebrides are in the wrong place, should be off the coast of Scotland, not Ireland
EDIT: also, the North Sea and Barentz Sea named are swapped, I think. I’m not 100% that’s where the Barentz Sea precisely is and cant be bothered to check
Stalingrad (now Volgograd) looks to be where Kursk is.
Gulf of Finland is marked as "Gulf of Sweden".
But Koskenkorva is actually a town.
Carthago is Carthage in English, the state which existed in present day Tunisia from which Hannibal sailed and crossed the alps on elephants. Carthage was later destroyed by the romans.
Very unlikely. Many mistakes are small jokes. Norway, for example, has cities named Nynorsk and Bokmål, which are actually the names of two different standards of Norwegian language. Ukraine has a city named Salo, an obvious reference to salo the food. Denmark's capital is called Legoland on the map and located roughly where Billund is (the town with Legoland).
In the spirit of https://xkcd.com/2945/ , and having heard the adage that "Wars are God's way of teaching Geography to americans", I had just assumed it was some mortal's attempt at a method involving less "collateral damage".
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5700.ct001785/?r=-0.179,-0.051...