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The best way to know the date of a map is to check if Portugal exists: If it does you can imeddiately narrow it down to between 1143 and the present day. And if it has the modern borders you know imeddiately that the map was made after 1250

Yes! More people calling it Dr. Congo!

I recently went to a wedding in a castle. I saw a world map on the wall that was made to look like a 200 year old antique, but showed South Sudan. It was the strangest artefact.

Not a map or an atlas, but I once found my grandfather's old elementary school history book. It was quite interesting in that it contained an entire chapter on WWII. But because the book was written in 1943 it had to end on a cliffhanger...

Back in the 90s, I introduced my Thai girlfriend (now wife) to my 100 year old great-aunt. When she told my great-aunt that she was from Thailand, my great-aunt appeared confused. Finally my girlfriend said, "I'm from Siam". My great-aunt smiled. That was a country she knew!

I remember when I was a kid, getting an atlas with my friends and laughing so much because of that one country with a full green flag... Ah, good times

That last Atlas is a treat for all geography enthusiasts! It’s a veritable encyclopedia of the world as seen from the Western perspective at the turn of the last century and was probably quite expensive.

Doctor Congo caught me off guard, couldn't stop laughing

I love old maps! ❤️🗺️ I bought a giant Europe map from 1962 from my school for 10€. It was just lying in storage.

01:50 Constantinople was called "Konstantiniyye" in Turkish, only people in the city called "Istanbul".

Mapmakers often made deliberate mistakes as a form of copyrighting, so they could see who was copying their maps when the mistake was copied as well.

My granddad had an atlas from the 60s I found in my house that has the USSR and Yugoslavia as well as many other places. There is a mistake in it that suggests that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were Soviet socialist republics, as they use the same borders which are listed on the key as 'SSR'

My wife actually wanted to throw away my grandpa's old globe. Good for her she didn't, I'd send her straight back home to Siam.

One time my mother brought a globe map from my grandparents house, but they didn't even think anything of it, so I always passed by it and noticed weird things but didn't really stop to thoroughly inspect it until one day I did and noticed more weird stuff like it had Yugoslavia, West Germany, East Germany, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, only one Sudan and a bunch of other stuff that was completely out of date, by what I saw it was probably a map from the 80s which is pretty cool.

Awesome and super interesting analysis, enjoyed every second of it! One thing to add is also the fact that it matters who drew the map. Countries dont always agree on international borders/changes and might draw two different maps at the same time.

This is fantastic! Love old maps and finding out how the world has changed through them

Finding when maps were created was more interesting than I imagined

I loved this! I wanna see more! I also like flags.

I once came across a map which had Yugoslavia and South Sudan at the same time. Strange trippy moment I’ll tell you that

This was like a fun history lesson, please make more of these types of videos!

I absolutely love this!!!! I have an old map of Italy that used to be my grandads. It's from between WWI and WWII but would LOVE an exact year

Man All those maps are more or close to hundred years old

This is absolutely incredible - I have a world map bought in Lithuania, I wonder if I'll be able to pinpoint the date as accurately as you 😅

I like these kinds of videos. My stepdad recently found an atlas from the early 1930’s I think. It was made in the city I live in, Chicago, so it’s very U.S centric, but they do have maps for the rest of the world.

The problem with older maps I think is that it took so much time to make them. There's a map of my town that was surveyed in 1846-1847 and released in 1849. Chances are it was out of date before it was even released.

I love this, I’ve been doing this with every globe I see and im glad to see other people enjoy doing this

i love the way you said “Dr. Congo”

I have a map hanged in my room that says it was made in 1920, and I guess that's about right, but only for it's borders. The map had probably the first edition printed in 1920, but they kept on making new edits to name changes on the map, and while making those new edits they seemed to have no intention with messing with the borders again with each new update. The cherry on the cake is Ireland, because after it became independent I guess that they just said "Fuck it, I'm not doing this again" and changed the name of the British Empire to British Isles. So basecaly Britain doesn't exist in my map.

This is absolutely amazing. The best series om youtube! Please continue it!

This is, by far, my favourite video from your channel. These enquiries are tons of fun, and I would absolutely love to see more. Congrats!!

11:30 Switzerland is pretty much the same as now. The only thing is, that Jura was still a part of Bern on this map. Now is it independent.

Great Video! Old maps are very interesting, please make more of this!!

Can we appreciate the amount of effort with the information and the animation put into this video?

I'd love to have a look at an old atlas like that

Great video! For the atlas, it shows the New Territories north of Kowloon as part of Hong Kong, which were ceded on a 99 year lease in 1898 (precipitating the 1997 handover).

Why don’t you have at least 1mil?! You are one of my favourite channels and your content always gives! Keep it up!!! :D

This is funny since my grandma has the same map and always when I visit her I always see the map and, I always wondered what exactly year that was made and, then this video came out.

This was a super intresting video! Thank you so much! :D

That Atlas is super cool. I can picture myself just sitting and staring at it for days

Antartica (probably all covered with ice sheet) LMAO

I bought the first interwar map and asked a similar question on Reddit about when the map was made. Thank you for giving a proper year!

This was a great video! Please do more similar stuff! :D

1:34 There’s also a missing province of Turkey, Hatay, which joined Turkey in 1939

10:55 Ha... Don't knock Prince Henri of Orléans too much, please! One did not simply walk into Tibet in the 1890s and the locals did not actually know the source of the Irrawaddy at the time so he technically did "discover" how the geography pieced together. Salomon Andrée was not so lucky, but it took 33 years to find out what had happened...

Love your videos. Thanks!

Another one for your father-in-law's atlas I noticed when you talked about Macau. Hong Kong also included the New Territories which only happen in 1897

Turkey doesnt actually have its current borders on the first map. the province of hatay on the map is part of the French mandate of Syria whilst it would join turkey later

We need more of this keep it up man

This content is incredible - the research and effort is just *chefs kiss*

I wonder what date (range) you'd arrive at for each of these maps if you followed the XKCD flowchart.

I loved this video, please do more like this !! :D

Loved the video! It keeps getting better!

1:30 in this map Turkey is not in the today's shape. In 1939 Hatay was annexed by Turkey from french mandate of Syria

Very interesting and well done video :) Amazing!

6:42 Belarus changed it's flag at July 7 1995. And your map has new one, so it's made after 7.7.1995

I really like the graph thing you did with the dates and good vid

There was a world atlas in my elementary school that was made during the early 1990s, and there were two copies that were different versions/printings. Stuff that the older version had that was left out of the newer version (that I remember) included Bonn as the capital of Germany, spelling Belarus as "Byelorussia", and a cliffhanger on the official borders of the former Yugoslavia (I even remember a white space being put over Bosnia and Croatia, with the SR borders being used as placeholders) .

It’s pointing at Sweden and Norway, I am scared

I love this video, it's really helpful, can you make more of this type of content??

Definitely loved this video & would like to see more (and more road trips 😏)

Very fascinating. I love these types of videos, but I could never do this type of research myself!

10:28 "This was before pluto was discovered" How would that affect anything?

My grandparents have a map like the first one in their garage with red dots on everywhere theyve been to

Glad to see others do this when they stumble across maps. Of course, I can’t do it with your level of geographic historical detail.

I've pinpointed my map to the first half of the year 2012 or last day of 2011, from 31st December 2011 (Samoa switches the International Date Line) to 28th of May (Malawi changes it's flag)

Hey Spaghetti, Tunisia had their old flag on your original map. On 1999 they made minor changes to the crescent on the map. It's not really noticeable until you put both new and old flag next to each other.

Great informative video, so much information you can drive from

On this map, Bulgaria is still divided into the Kingdom of Bulgaria and East Rumeli, despite the reunion happened in 1885

Love this content, definitely my kind of thing. Hope its popular with the audience at large!

Need more investigative episodes like these!

The most recent world atlas that I own is from 1986 (reprinted 1988), so still has the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany etc. I also have the Bloomsbury Pocket Encyclopaedia of the World, 1991 printing. This is interesting because it has the information about Germany still split into West and East, but the East section is headed “Germany, Federal Republic of (former German Democratic Republic)” and there is a note “Since 3 October 1990 part of Federal republic of Germany”. There is also an entry for “Germany, Federal Republic of (former West-Berlin)”, with a similar note to the one given for East Germany. I remember being at a meeting in Frankfurt in late 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the topic of the possibility of German reunification came up over lunch. The opinion of educated people was that it would never happen. Of course, less than a year later, it did happen.

PLEASEEE DO MORE OF THESE

6:24 Hong Kong was not so happy about this handover.

I used to do this on maps in school when I was bored

I have some Christmas wrapping paper from the 90s with countries flags on them, pretty interesting

This was very cool! Loved the vid!

Great video! That must have been a lot of work

um, small little detail. 7:10 when you panned down, I noticed "Nunavut" written on the top part of Canada, Nunavut was not formed until April 1st 1999.

These videos are always entertaining always happy when spaghetti road uploads a vid.

This is a fantastic, fantastic video. Interesting, a joy to watch, and superbly edited. Love your stuff, dude.

I found an old Norwegian map of Europe from the 50s when I was cleaning my grandma's basement, I asked her if I could keep it, she said yes and now I have it in my room :)

I'm pretty sure I had that exact world map as a kid, or at least an edition of it. I tried memorizing the flags :D

I'd love to see that list of traded commodities!

6:58 "Doctor Congo" 😂😂😂😂😂

Greetings from Finland! I have never visited at St Petersburg, because I have a stubborn impression that I will be robbed there😬

I have an Atlas from 1912, my grandfather gave it to me on my birthday. He got it from HIS father.

Man his voice is so wholesome

I LOVE THIS!! You should have a series about maps 👀

very interesting, would love to see more videos with this topic

This is quite a fun and entertaining video good job making it

I would love to see your knowledge by trying to name all of the flags countries and capital cities of the world.

I loved this video. I would love more like it!

I love old maps, they're always fun to look at and see what changed

i do that a lot. this map you showed in the start is 1998 to 2011, and the next one is 1923 to 1924

Soooooooo exited!! Love your videos so much

I once had a reprint of an old Renaissance map with Atlantis (or where it was supposed to be) on it. Also a lot of big monsters in the sea.

Yes definitely more of this and also a lot more of the usual

In my old high school they had a map with Yugoslavia still on it

loved the video!!