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Ah OK, I misunderstood. I thought you meant it was like Thule or Hy-Brasil or the Island of California in that it disappeared from maps and encyclopaedias because it was found not to have existed in the first place.

Until I clicked on the link, I didn't realize it was a historical map you were talking about. (I see you said so in your first post, but I must have missed it when I first read it.) I know it's silly, but I thought you meant there was a map showing Tartary as a contemporary state in the age of the S...

My supposition is that the expense and disruption of moving what has become an enormous machine of state would make no sense in a country that is already overbuilt. Possibly not, though there have been cases of a new regime moving the capital to symbolize a break from the old regime when it would h...

The map marks Beijing as the capital of China, but even that is “okay” for Taiwan’s purposes: If they should ever regain control of China (fat chance, of course), the seat of government would surely return to Beijing from exile. Not necessarily. The Kuomintang's capital before their retreat to Taiw...

quadibloc wrote: ↑Thu Oct 16, 2025 11:44 am maybe Syria actually was called "Persia" at one point after Persia became Iran.

That would be very confusing.

people climbing Everest do need to temporarily swap their satellite phones for equivalent ones provided by the Chinese authorities while on the mountain, and hence in Chinese territory. This is noted in numerous mountain climbing accounts. I haven't managed to find any of these numerous mountain cl...

quadibloc wrote: ↑Wed Oct 15, 2025 1:59 pm Yet, people climbing K2 have to hand over their cell phones to China just like with Everest

Climbers have to hand over their cell phones? Really?

Could it have been intentional? I mean, only 12 countries actually recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/count ... ize-taiwan

Milo wrote: ↑Fri Oct 10, 2025 10:17 pm Eckert VI looks superficially inspired by the sinusoidal projection...

I'd say more than just superficially. Its meridians are the mean of the sinusoidal projection and the plate carrée.

the basic principle remains: distortion is greatest near the seam. If you don't have that, then you no longer have a homolosine projection in any meaningful sense. the entire point is that near the equator, it is exactly identical to the sinusoidal projection, and thus has benefits such as not exce...