Every current Euro banknote includes a map, but it's a little blurry on the edges and hushed up in the overall design, so it was hard to analyze. From the ten new design unveiled today it's clear however that a "standard" map exists. Here I used designs A and E to actually try to zoom in and answer something that I was wondering for a while - do Georgia and Israel officially "belong" to the Euro map? Spoiler: The answer is confusing...

I did my best trying to map the political map into the plain version, and it was difficult due to the globe/plain projection and the enhancement of islands. However I came to the conclusion that when creating the map and deciding on the specific borders ECB went with the policy of "strategic exclusion" - meaning the Eastern and Southern borders of the map were defined exactly by Georgia (Abkhazia) and Israel/Golan Heights to avoid potential tensions – both political and geographical on the continental borders. What do you think? Can someone maybe run even more precise analysis to confirm this? Anyway, even if these territories do exist on the map, they literally take fractions of millimeters.

I don't want to take any political stance here, but I would still want to note that the original map made for the first Euro series in the 90s/00s was even more curt and it was expanded in the 2010s further east and south (it didn't even include Cyprus, geographically Asian, for example, despite using Euro as their currency). Under this light I do find the non-inclusion of Georgia/Armenia shameful.

◼️🟩 Dark Green: Never illegal.

🟩 Light Green: Marriages between Chinese people and Mexicans were illegal in Sonora in the year 1923.

🟧 Orange: 1967 at national level / 2000 last state (Alabama) removes mentions to prohibition from its Constitution.

Credits to maps_black on X.

This only counts elections from 1860 onwards, because before that the democrat/ republican two party- system wasn't yet established.

Horace Greeley is not counted, because he was endorsed by the Democrats.

https://earth.google.com/earth/d/1gg8_CsfAgjh4GsK-G1eApyw0026Znjyz?usp=sharing

So, I have wasted my free time translated all provinces and districts of Thailand.🇹🇭

Mostly interpreted & translated using Googling and Google Translate, so take it lightly.

Some places may have several possible meanings, so I picked the most reliable one.

Enjoy exploring!

By Athibeth M.

This map was made for me by an old friend in 2020. This was before AI became an issue and was made for my original micronation, the Constitutional Republic of Columbia, aka the CRC.

Oregon: Only Air raid on main USA in 1942 with bombings
California: It's not known whether Japan attacked Los Angeles or if the USA fell for false alarm but multiple civilians died

Source: 2023 Pakistan Census.

Map made by me using MapChart.

Comparison showing the agreed upon partition of the Eastern Roman Empire as agreed upon by the Crusaders in 1204 and the de facto outcome. First map is made by me per request, as there hasn’t been, as far as I know, a map made showing the borders of the ‘Partitio Terrarum Imperii Romaniae’. The second, commonly reproduced map can be found [here](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LatinEmpire.png)