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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Hmmm. Given a map I could do china, japan, vietnam, korea, taiwan and I think tibet, but if you asked me to draw a map I definitely wouldn't get the placement of korea and vietnam and tibet right. India I could get too, if we're going for continental asia. Maybe Kazakhstan? I'd guess that I'd probably be more accurate than the average american, but not great.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s cool and all, but if we’re directly correlating this, then I think it would be more like you drawing out the provinces in China or India.

China I could maybe get Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Tibet kinda right, I’d try to get Guangdong, Szechuan and Xi’an, the rest I’m screwed (Heibei maybe? Guangzhou? Idfk). Perhaps I’d be better to stick to the 3 kingdoms.

India I’m much more screwed. Kashmir, North India, South India, Delhi, something called Gujurat maybe, Bengal, Pashtun?, Bombay, Goa? Throw the Ganges somewhere in there in the North and East…a desert in the west, North and South Mountains that are not called mountains? Now that I’m thinking about it, I’d probably draw it out as Kashmir, that big strip that hugs the Ganges and Himalayas where Delhi is, and Texas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

This isn't me being like "look how much I know!", it's the exact opposite hahaha

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I would hope you'd find Russia on a map too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

You mean eastern Ukraine?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Hmmm, never heard of it