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jcmontx
5 months ago
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This map is not upside down
Honorary mention to one of the officials maps of Argentina
https://www.ign.gob.ar/gallery-app/mapas-escolares-202307/me...
aptitude_moo
5 months ago
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Just to clarify, it might be official but I'm argentinean and I never saw a map like this with south on top
BaardFigur
5 months ago
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Casually claiming a bunch of British territories
kulahan
5 months ago
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Easy come easy go
nurettin
5 months ago
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BOTs are a joke. Like, how is Cyprus British?
hdgvhicv
5 months ago
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Cyprus isnt. There are two sovereign base areas of Cyprus which are overseas U.K. territories, I guess similar to midway.
pac0
5 months ago
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Islas Malvinas are Argentinian.
kspacewalk2
5 months ago
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Not in these three fairly important ways: actual control, the wishes of the people who actually live there, de jure recognition by most countries. Otherwise, sure, totally and wholly Argentinian.
pac0
5 months ago
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Yeah well... thats what england used to do, invade, put their own people to live there and then ask them if they feel like beloging to the crown.
You can ask Ireland.
Attrecomet
5 months ago
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I've got another one: historically
thelibrarian
5 months ago
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Argentina has tried to prove this both by legal means and by force, and has conclusively failed at both, so I think it's well past time to give up.
xanderlewis
5 months ago
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[says who?]
phyzix5761
5 months ago
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Wow this is so cool! Thanks for sharing.
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