The WORST Maps in a History Book I've Ever Seen

[@EmperorTigerstar]

I had to make this video. Which map did you think was the worst?

[@spacenards5014]

EmperorTigerstar the first

[@bananamcstuffins2718]

Number 3. Just... NO.

[@nickdimartino127]

EmperorTigerstar what is the best book for historical maps

[@holly5234]

The first since i live in the U.S and that map made me want to die.

[@CaptainFloridaMapper]

Wow I didn't know it was called Austria Hungary Bohemia!

[@danieladamczyk08]

"Wikipedia isn't accurate" *gives us these books*

[@Ida-xe8pg]

i have an atlas and in one page the European map is soo bads this atlas is printed in 2011 and it shows montenegro is still part of serbia entire new country in the Balkans consist of moldova romania bulgaria and greece,Switzerland dont exist so as Luxembourg the borders itself is rough and the map of serbia croatia bosnia slovenia and caucasiane is soo wrong Kaliningrad is in Lithuania N.ireland is in ireland and denmark is in germany if any one other than me saw that page they will laugh and cry

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

I saw a school map which shows Belarus occupying Moscow and Finland looks like fucking Prussia

[@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan]

The map of the U.S looks like it was made during the civil war it's so bad. Look at pennsylvania! What the hell.

[@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan]

My English teacher hated Wikipedia so much he got the school to block the website.

[@georgeofhamilton]

To be fair, Wikipedia can be pretty inaccurate.

[@clockworkmultiverse92]

The Mongols are a nomadic people, so evidently they simply decided to pack up and move their entire country to different location.

[@Peristerygr]

lol

[@NewPaulActs17]

asgard isn't a place, it's a people

[@proudtitanicdenier4300]

It's outer Mongolia though, which is in China.

[@LordDim1]

Proud Titanic Denier No, that's Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia is what we call just Mongolia

[@Oreosmilkshake]

Well during world war 2 outer Mongolians fighting against Militarist Japan for their own homeland in Khalkha river inner Mongolians was laying on their bed and drinking some alcohol that Chinese government gave to them.

[@linusretired4183]

My 6th grade science teacher said USSR stands for “United States of Soviet Russia”

[@IloveRumania]

Yeah, no. That's funny.

[@j.bproductions5424]

You can see why, but it’s still so wrong

[@striver2180]

-_-

[@The-kr9rb]

I mean at least it's the SCIENCE teacher.

[@iwilldefeatiwillsavejustin2372]

They united secretly

[@BrakeCoach]

One of the maps on my textbook says "yugoslovakia"

[@skeptic781]

SeunghoYT xd

[@rileyemel9913]

SeunghoYT dear god those poor Slavs

[@angamaitesangahyando685]

Fun fact: real world Yugoslovakia was given to Hungary as per the First Vienna Award in 1938.

[@themortal8656]

Riley Emel no one gives a shit about us tbh

[@thedarklordreturns990]

my school map still has yugoslovia but that becouse union of serbia and montanegro was disollved in 2006

[@foresthaviland3612]

The teachers aren't any better. My history teacher says that the reason Native Americans came to North America because "all the continents were FROZEN TOGETHER in an EVENT we call PANGEA."

[@GrayLensman51]

LOL

[@psych0536]

i hope you corrected her lmao

[@guyname8760]

What a fucking dumbass

[@zacharywilson9596]

This is why you Americans need to reform your education system.

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

Oh my god

[@jackspurlock9201]

The difference with Kentucky was that at the beginning of the war, it declared neutrality. Thus, three entities existed: the United States, the Confederate States, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. But yeah, that is a bad map.

[@TrueFlameslinger]

Technically 2 still. States were seen as being able to say no to a large variety of things back then. The war changed that.

[@CarthagoMike]

It is true that Kentucky declared neutrality (although this was short-lived and violated by both sides soon after), but the problem is that the time-period this map depicts, including all of the battles marked on it, took place after Kentucky's neutrality was violated and it alligned itself with the Union. Setting that aside, since it took part on two sides (neutrality and union respectively) of the war, it should have had a different colour or at the very least be striped (with a colour-combination of the Union-depicting colour and the Neutrality colour).

[@thomasrinschler6783]

The problem with that is that Kentucky declared for the Union in September of 1861, while West Virginia didn't separate from Virginia until 1863. So, if the situation is in early 1861, West Virginia should still be shown as part of Virginia; if the situation is in 1863, then Kentucky should be part of the Union. None of this explains Long Island's apparent neutrality/independence, however!

[@kormagogthedestroyer]

Did Long Island declare neutrality too?

[@saucymemes6696]

@@kormagogthedestroyer Long Island has never been a state for one. Second, I think the only case of neutrality in the Civil War was Kentucky, and theirs didn’t last all too long.

[@MrDeinonico]

Once I saw a map of WW1 wich was just a modern map with modern borders painted in different colors. I died a little inside.

[@teriyakichicken1848]

JMathias Hahaha that's hilarious

[@bestrafung2754]

same here :3

[@holly5234]

My teacher did that for both WW1 and WW2 and I was so annoyed by it. But the worst part is that for talking about Austria-Hungary my teacher used a map of modern day Austria and Hungary joined together and said that the reason Austria-Hungary invaded Bosnia was to get a coastline. She also used modern day flags for the countries Which also was annoying.

[@holgerkrauss8536]

Luigi Cadorna at the 1,357 Battle of the Isonzo You should have told her... once I told my history teacher that she's wrong and she got so nervous that she ran to restrooms.

[@thedarklordreturns990]

lol austria had coastline at the time stupid teacher shall be executed

[@ultragamer4960]

It's a bird, it's a plane, *its the Seljuk Turks.*

[@gekkenhuisje]

" 'Ah!' said the Byzantine Empire, which was so small it hardly even existed anymore." -Bill Wurtz, from his Magnum Opus, "History of the Entire World, i guess"

[@1Dyermaker]

Clorox Bleach!!!!! Open the country, stop having it be closed.

[@financialproblems9308]

*the sun is a deadly lazer!!*

[@ymj4256]

*not anymore there's a blanket*

[@cadenmacdonaldsbiggestfan9370]

The Mongols came over, ready for war and died in a tornado but they tried again and had a nice time with the Japanese before dying in a tornado

[@Ulas_Aldag]

It would have been way better when you would show us the wrong one and than an accurate map, so one could exactly see how distorted they were.

[@therealdiamondcat3246]

But it is ouvious the it is really bad

[@bm8985]

@@ze_rubenator He's pointing out how information in textbooks can be inaccurate, laughably so. It's an important lesson in fact checking. This is hardly a brag video. Kinda dumb obvious when you look.

[@ze_rubenator]

@@bm8985 It's obvious only to the people who have studied these specific countries at these specific times, and it makes absolutely no effort to explain anything. It's an exclusive, not an inclusive, video, and as such seems to exist for no other reason that this clown's ego.

[@plumpdy5810]

Ulaş Aldağ your pfp is Einstein, And you didn’t notice how bad those maps were, It was kinda obvious

[@CarthagoMike]

To be honest, anyone with even a bit of geographical and/or history knowledge can immediatly see how wrong these maps are and to what extend.

[@bulletbill1104]

For anyone wondering about the Seljuk Byzantine map, here's the problems >Afghanistan is wonky and stretched, not correct placing either >byzantines own Egypt long after loss of Egypt >Seljuks own most of Arabia, when in real life inner arabia was mostly untouched due to... obvious reasons. Also, you could say the Byzantine northern borders are a bit off but I think that's a minor issue

[@llaftuo3618]

BulletBill110 Manzikert is also supposed to be in eastern Anatolia.

[@randomcommenter395]

BulletBill110 also the Seljuk advances go from neutral territory to Seljuk territory >_

[@GutsLikesItInTheAss]

I believe Arab kingdoms were vassals to Seljuk Empire. Looks fine to me except that Byzantine Egypt part

[@nat-hh2rz]

Khoi T The Romans did for a point but I think it was a city or small territory and not the entire peninsula

[@jacobloft3898]

BulletBill110 Thanks sooo much. Looked all through the comments and count find any answering that subject :D

[@timesnewlogan2032]

In high school, we had a history textbook that, among numerous other things: -Gave contradictory birth dates for Chandragupta -Labelled Vichy as "Paris" -Said "the Allies invade Italy" while pointing to Turkey -Showed an "extent of expansion" map that claimed Japan had somehow invaded Mongolia and the middle of Siberia, as well as Midway Island and Hawaii. Halfway through the semester, I finally snapped and basically Half-Blood Princed it. No one ever came after me over it.

[@nousername1916]

TimesNewLogan oh god

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

-Belarus occupying Moscow -Finland looking like Prussia -France not having a southern coast -Apparently Turkey occupied all of Greece -Sweden was labeled as fucking Portugal and is the only labeled country Fucking public schools

[@52flyingbicycles]

Parthian Capitalist we have private schools that teach kids the Earth is 8000 years old, gay people don’t exist, and black people enjoyed being slaves. I’d say that’s far worse than awful maps and editing oversights.

[@ale0606_]

@@parthiancapitalist2733 in mine sweden is switzerland and australia is austria

[@jacintovski]

@@ale0606_ PAHAHHAHA

[@brotherjudas7709]

About the Sejuks, Manzikert is shown in the middle of Anatolia when in reality the city is located in Armenia and Byzantines still control Egypt, The Turks themsleves also are shown holding most of arabian peninsula when in reality they only held the coasts. Also that Afghanistan is in Pakistan and Tibet.

[@DeathKnight217]

Actually manzikert is in present Turkey but ye its almost in place of nicaea...

[@tomhegeman1166]

About the battle of Manzikert, I think that they mixed up the location of the battle of Manzikert (in 1071) with the battle of Dorylaeum (in 1097), which took place in that area.

[@annayosh]

Egypt had not been Byzantine for several centuries at the time. I also don't think the Seltjuks controlled much of the Arabian peninsula

[@tf2664]

Thx for the help

[@tactical1096]

I’m pretty sure that manzikert is were ankira is

[@transfermium3349]

Did the company who made that history book even had the budget to make professional maps? Half the borders look hand-drawn on Microsoft Paint.

[@a.d.t.mapping]

Maybe worse. Powerpoint.

[@glasswhisperer]

Everything @Tigerstar draws is in Ms paint pretty much. No excuse.

[@velvasc]

you mean 1000000000 miles long pencil long help at the end

[@auhbean6572]

I can draw better borders 100%

[@VX_VectorPrimus]

On one of the books I found, it was talking about World War 1 and they label The Ottoman Empire as "Haitiman Empire" I do not know how it got passed through the publisher. .

[@denizyuksel5093]

New Atlantica It's true. What is wrong with that name?

[@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG]

So tale of s-hole empire is true than?

[@helixaether872]

After the haitiman empire collapsed offshore territories were annexed by Britain and France leaving turkey they also forgot Haiti because who wants Haiti.

[@buckplug2423]

Those damn Haitians

[@azelfdaboi5265]

HOW?!?!

[@marygrace3251]

This man is the gordon ramsay of maps.

[@chumin1280]

The Monoat ye

[@kousvetkousvet4158]

-by a medium american

[@somepersonontheinternet6879]

No... these maps were just completely painful to look at.

[@rogerzalos2851]

"WHERE'S THE CAPITAL!?"

[@nikolaslijepcevic5351]

So true

[@wallywallace8923]

The concept of the video is good but maybe side by side comparisons of accurate maps would be good because not everyone has the entire world's layout burned in their minds

[@nicomoron001]

ARE YOU IMPLYING YOU DONT REMEMBER THE MAP LAYOUT DURING THE PRUSSO AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN WAR?!?!?

[@JjKk-zj2vn]

@@nicomoron001 You don't even know how to write it.

[@Ron-qg6bn]

Yeah I agree.

[@rommelcandiani6358]

This is your wrong channel

[@HBKnowItAll]

Wally Wallace I memorized every european countries colonial lands and memorized the Cold War era country borders.

[@honzikvlcek]

One of my teacher's friends was a teacher in India, beacouse she wanted to help lil' kids. How ever, in the geography book, there was a map with capital letter on Africa saying... Australia Note: This story isn't 100% accurite, I don't really remember that much exept for the last part.

[@refraggedbean]

WTH how

[@Jettaivt]

You also dont remember how to spell accurate

[@TheVoiceOfChaos]

are you also from india mate? you need to check your spelling on accurate

[@samwasmarshall6726]

austria/australia, look alike but are completely different

[@iancuPotcoava24]

Random Cap i

[@TheReturnoflee]

I had a history book in 7th grade and it showed Bulgaria, Portugal, and the Ottoman Empire NEUTRAL during World War I. Also, this book was called World History.

[@TheReturnoflee]

Portugal was most important in invading Germany's South-West African colonies. Maybe you should watch the Great War channel's video about Portugal in World War I. But maybe state governments should crack down on what these students are learning. They should be learning facts, not fiction.

[@brandonlyon730]

I thought Portugal was neutral during WW1, along with Spain. Unless I'm mistaken that for WW2, though I do know Spain was out for both of them.

[@TheReturnoflee]

Spain was neutral during both, but Portugal wasn't in WW1. Most of the Portuguese fighting happened in Tanzania, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique.

[@TheReturnoflee]

I am sure that the map said "World War I in Europe", and so, it showed countries the book said were neutral even though they were not.

[@crazyboris1625]

AH, I have that same book! I was flipping through it a few months back, btu didn't really pay much attention to it, but holy shit those maps are bad, especially that Seljuk one... and those borders on the Belgian Congo... Interwar Poland in the Warsaw Pact... And those deformed states, oh my god, Missouri looks like it's absorbing Kentucky... HOW THE HELL DID THESE MAPS GET APPROVED

[@redwoodpartisan2433]

Thank you! I have that book, which helped me get inot history when I was a little kid, and those maps r, holy fucking shit, soooo bad.

[@danisullivan118]

Look at Austria in the cold war map too lmao

[@connorrcompton]

There were a couple flag questions in a little quiz my class were doing in school. The first was Brazil. Simple. Then the other was this weird red flag with a sort of yellow temple sort of thing that resembled Angkor Wat. I knew it was not the flag of any country. So then I tried to find the flag online but completely failed after over an hour of trauling through Google. When we got the answers to the quiz they said that the flag was of Cambodia. It was not the flag of Cambodia. I really want to know how they found that flag and decided to put it in the quiz since it does not appear at all when you type for Cambodian flag. So long story slightly shorter, I eventually found the flag. What resembled Angkor Wat turned out to be Angkor Wat because it was the flag of the Kampuchean united front for national salvation, one of the participants of the Cambodian civil war in the 1970s. Why???

[@richardaubrecht2822]

It WAS a flag of Cambodia - between 1979 and 1989, when it was called People's Republic of Kampuchea. They used five different flags during the last 70 years.

[@svyalinirnhut890]

Isn't that the flag of Khmer rouges?

[@CarthagoMike]

@@svyalinirnhut890 Yes, the Khmer Rouge used a simpler verion (or the original verion in fact) of the flag the OP mentioned, which itself was modelled after an earlier communist Vietnam flag.

[@TheMaster4534]

@@svyalinirnhut890 Khmer Rouge flag has the Angkor Wat shape have 3 towers. The P.R. Kampucha version has 5.

[@svyalinirnhut890]

Rudol von Stroheim Ah ok, thanks for clarifying.

[@rolandpruitt9500]

The last one looked like something I would make in middle school.

[@GunBuilt]

looks more like pre school

[@neptunessorrow6119]

Mr Awesome fuck u

[@citrusblast4372]

Mr Awesome dude what is your pfp i see it everywhere

[@rolandpruitt9500]

Citrus Blast It's from the results of my political compass test, just Google "political compass test", it should be the first result.

[@rolandpruitt9500]

King Crazy Is this a joke?

[@welp2388]

The line for Louisiana looks like someone messed up but instead of erasing their mistake they just decided to give New Orleans independence

[@owenfarmer1588]

So true lol

[@sfsinverted5175]

2:04 oh look North Korea invaded South Korea...

[@markuspark5128]

Yep Seoul isn’t worst Korean anymore

[@movedaccount9958]

@@markuspark5128 Is that a joke? "SK WK"

[@markuspark5128]

Random Commenter Yep of course!

[@markuspark5128]

Random Commenter I’m Korean myself dude but I’m not north/south Korean

[@eip81]

​@@markuspark5128 The North Koreans have no Seoul.

[@phoenixport1270]

2:24 A Cold War map showing Poland in it's pre WWII state. XD

[@Ekvitarius]

Except they own Silesia for some reason.

[@thedarklordreturns990]

they are some wierd combination between pre and after WW2 state actually0

[@shpho]

Czechoslovakia is also showed in pre WWII xd

[@australium7374]

east Germany is a mess

[@Random_Panda_eating_cake]

Has anyone looked at Switzerland?

[@siegethenation8103]

one time in my AP HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY class, I saw the Iberian Peninsula labeled as France, and France was labeled as Germany. I still don't get it.

[@jaeckex6214]

SiegeTheNation Omg, you're not from Europe are you. I hope you gave your teacher a Word after that.

[@ingmarelfsborg1466]

In my school planer, there is a map that has Ohio as a lake.

[@dr3w399]

looks like lake erie took all of ohio

[@macaroon_nuggets8008]

I think that's an improvement.

[@petargrific484]

in my school we have a map of the caucasus countries that shows the abşeron peninsula as a part of the caspian sea and it shows bakı in dagestan

[@Roboat06]

The best timeline

[@electronicdestroyers8515]

But Ohio don’t exist. And I’m in Ohio right now

[@hanjizoe2648]

I had a history book that showed the People's Republic of China with Mongolia as part of it. While Veitnam took up all of French-IndoChina. Japan had Tiawan as a territory. And then Russia owned all of Poland, Finland, and MUTHERFUCKING TURKEY!! To Note: the maps all took place in the year 1978.

[@knguyennguyen5559]

Hanji Zoe That map would have been correct in the 1910s (except the Turkey part) but yeah 1978 it is definitely wrong :)

[@soimminionaaa9244]

But russia actually owned poland

[@amitabhakusari2304]

Maybe someone played a HOI4 campaign on it. Before it was cool.

[@nadiafriesen971]

Nguyen Nguyen Russia only had part of Poland

[@Oreosmilkshake]

@@knguyennguyen5559 that will be technically wrong cus there wasnt such as independent Chinese in 1910 only Manchu /Qing dynasty/ , it clearly shows that was the propaganda of Chinese communistn government lmao

[@vacuumgaze5277]

Tigerstar always finds a map-related topic

[@burhan446]

Smol Noodle facts

[@MolotovBurner100]

Smol Noodle I mean, are you a lot of things outside of maps from Emperor Tigerstar? Lol By the way, make sure you get the cool shoeshine lmao

[@crackcobain9845]

GET THE COOL SUNSHINE!!

[@nousername1916]

3:00 did anyone notice that Massachusetts somehow annexed Connecticut and Rhode Island? And not to mention the city locations.

[@Ryukuro]

@Mapping Mapping Massachusettnetticut Island

[@josephschafstall5701]

It's like they asked a ten year old cartographer to draw them by hand. From memory

[@itsjustanapple5452]

Joe S out of budget i guess.

[@stefane4581]

Joe S i'm 12, and I can place each city perfectly

[@samohtt]

yep

[@jon250]

"Eurasia has always been at war with eastasia" -History teacher

[@alexandrekuritza5685]

Holy God my eyes are in great pain after reading this. So many flash-backs though.

[@luka188]

Those history teachers might be bad, but back in 8th grade I had my homeroom teacher tell me that a cubic decimeter of air weighs 10 kilograms. No joke. He was absolutely serious, it was so mind boggelingly stupid none of the kids even believed him, but he kept on insisting untill the majority of class was convinced that the teachers word must be truth.

[@kevinshaw4730]

1984 reference.

[@alexandrekuritza5685]

+lutin grognon Welp I did NOT get the reference. My bad...

[@ehtuanK]

omfg! If air was TEN TIMES as dense as water, then how the fuck do boats float!? Every time I hear or read stupidity of that degree, I'm amazed how members of a species called "sapient" practice their ignorance as if it was a professional sport.

[@ivegotahandle]

Thanks, for making these. They've been funny and will continue to be, and I'm happy that you can move on in good conscience.

[@SuperCatman]

Holy shite this is my worst nightmare as a self map maker.

[@SuperCatman]

YOU PHYSICALLY HURT ME EMPEROR YOU PHISICALLY HURT ME

[@SuperCatman]

BLOODY HELL THIS WAS WORSE THAN I THOUGHT

[@kyokyoniizukyo7171]

Super Catman What? I thought we had two lousisanas?

[@matthewslentz5481]

No darling, no we dont.

[@biasedhistory618]

Super Catman Same

[@lukejohns5900]

1:43 it looks like they have he map to a child and told him to draw out the nations

[@lukejohns5900]

Thailand is just a clusterfuck

[@thatguys773]

Mr. Murica Mongolia is in Tibet...Why?

[@SkeetontheverycoolSkeleton]

Mr. Murica right

[@MrPbhuh]

I think the problem with this book is that they drew over borders from a different map in different scaling and put it on a world map of themselves, probably copyright crap they had to deal with.

[@HenrikoMagnifico]

I am not much into geography, so I have absolutely no clue what's wrong with most of these maps. Care to elaborate more on what's incorrect with each one of them?

[@OllerHaha]

You and me both. I hate how he just laughs at the maps so condescendingly.

[@nathaniell4325]

Dude just search up these maps and you'll see how disproportionate and off these things are

[@meteorname]

why do you watch a video about bad maps when you know nothing about them

[@neph9205]

@@meteorname why do you comment on it 3 years later ?

[@godlyvex5543]

@@meteorname maybe because I want to know more about it?

[@ricardomendes3450]

1:54 Did i saw it wrong or did North Korea finally took Seul?

[@allenad2155]

ricardo mendes "seoul"

[@azelfdaboi5265]

North Korea is way too big in 2, it controls Seoul

[@richardstarkey2247]

So Richmond is a coastal city. I learned something new today. The Union navy really let us down by not playing a larger role in the capture of the South's capitol.

[@a_can_of_soda]

Rowan Lane lothaw is joking about how Richmond was put on the coast of Virginia.

[@applesyrupgaming]

it is on the coast of the james river

[@thehuscarl4835]

I know why Kentucky isn't colored in @2:30. It's actually the only redeeming quality of this map. Kentucky had declared neutrality at the start of the Civil War. So they weren't on either side. Later, the Union violated that neutrality, and General Buckner (commanding general of the Kentucky State Militia) took his forces to fight for the Confederacy. In effect, the Union had the land, but the Confederacy had the troops.

[@jamescopenhaver720]

Minnesota looks like it got punched in the balls xD

[@Tytoalba777]

Considering those damned Wissies took Saint Paul, yeah, that's an accurate statement.

[@jamescopenhaver720]

James A Clouder please explain I have no clue what you are talking about

[@TylerIrelandNFL]

He's saying that St. Paul is in Wisconsin's borders.

[@vespulazer]

Hell Iowa might as well control the whole of it!

[@cicerobully]

OW MY BALLS! WHY DID YOU DO THAT WISCONSIN WE'RE ON THE SAME SIDE YOU STUPID CHEESE HEAD-Minnesota

[@nolanhanson6172]

1:46 I guess the creator of this map thought the entirety of Mongolia immigrated south and North Korea controlled Seoul. WHO AUTHORIZED A CHILD'S BORDER COPY OF AN EAST ASIAN MAP TO BE PUT INTO A BOOK!? Also why is Mongolia called Outer Mongolia when they are supposed to put the name of the country and not the name of a territory?

[@Fish-se7cf]

Can someone explain the mistakes in every map as the youtuber really leaves me confused with no explanation?

[@DefinitelyFakeGrantOBrien]

Arthur Dias The borders are simply inaccurate.

[@GrayLensman51]

That's because half of his so called mistakes aren't mistakes but errors in his perception of what the maps were trying to depict.

[@zacharywilson9596]

Gray Lensman, exactly. I mean, Mongolia moving to an entirely different location is CLEARLY correct given context, as is the Turks controlling the interior of Arabia (which they never did), Poland changing shape, Milan swapping places with Genoa and Lake Tanganyika ceasing to exist. All clearly correct with no context given, obviously.

[@bbh6925]

1. He explains pretty well. Milan is bizarrely the only city labelled and it’s not even in the right spot, and the HRE borders are off. 2. The Seljuks control way too much of Arabia, Manzikert is too far west, and Byzantium had lost all their land in Egypt and Africa centuries before what this map is showing. 3. Borders are off and very sloppily shown, the regions labels are kind off, at least Silesia’s is. 4. Borders are really far off, even though there are topographical references which should make things obvious. Just pull up a map of Asia in google and see. Just look at North Korea. 5. This one isn’t that bad, the labelling sucks and makes it hard to understand a little. The errors I can see right away are North Rhodesia being disconnected from the rest of Rhodesia and South Africa, maybe I’m wrong, and Canada not owning all the Arctic islands. India looks like it blobbed out a little too. 6. Borders are off again. 7. This is supposed to be Europe during the Cold War. Poland has its post WW1 borders, it still owns parts of what’s now Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania (at this time the USSR) . The USSR bizarrely holds most of what used to be Prussia, most of which should be part of Poland now, and East Germany is also holding on to some eastern territories which should be Polish. 8.Again, just google a map of US states in the Civil War. And aside from being that inaccurate, it looks like the borders were drawn by a child with a crayon, like a lot of the other maps here. If I missed something let me know, I agree the uploader probably should’ve explained some more things.

[@BromTeque]

Palpameme Not that it really matters, but I would call it «pre-ww2 borders» instead of «post-ww1 borders». Not that it matters, just think that sounds less... confusing?

[@MrTreefoz]

Some of them look mostly ok at first glance. Then suddenly the problems become painfully obvious...

[@DSQueenie]

This just makes me realise how little map knowledge is. Apart from the Holy Roman Empire I wouldn't have been able to tell you what was wrong.

[@icarusmarioFAN]

@Electro_blob Actually, all the border states are colored in correctly aside from them forgetting that Kentucky exists

[@masterspark9880]

He’s really exaggerating how bad most of these maps are

[@jay_dmp]

I clicked this video expecting humor and/or education. I got none of the two.

[@OllerHaha]

Most accurate comment I've seen on this video.

[@sethleoric2598]

This video is for true historians... which i am not

[@Baba-yv6ml]

The maps weren't amusing to you?

[@blacktainfalcon7097]

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

[@JjKk-zj2vn]

@@OllerHaha yeah

[@ericktorres7612]

THE WORLD IS MY CITY

[@ArthafirGamerzDS]

Erwin Rommel THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS MY COUNTY

[@aceybux3438]

Arthafir Gamerz Milky Way is my Country

[@patrickmay7038]

The local galactic group is my town

[@Orinslayer]

the universe is my couch.

[@aceybux3438]

Executing file iexplorere.exe the multiverse is my toilet

[@FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog]

As a Dutchie: Any map that includes modern (20th century) terra-forming.

[@whatthebeepvideos]

What?

[@jayuibear]

A lot of the Netherlands' land has been reclaimed/built due to the sea levels and very flat land/marshes over time, so taking a 16th century map with 20th century land would look wrong.

[@matthewbelzer2409]

David Housman the Dutch have added land around their nation, so he is saying that maps that have the terraform that are older than it actually being completed bothers him.

[@Awibrahor]

jayuibear Yeah, many maps of Medieval and even Roman Europe also feature the Afsluitdijk, a 20th-century engineering feat that turned the Zuiderzee ('Southern Sea') into a landlocked lake. Similarly, maps of ancient Egypt will have you believe that Lake Nasser always existed. I'm sure the fans of this channel can think of more examples.

[@PickYourPoisson]

lutin grognon remember that time when the Romans salted the sands of North Africa?

[@howtoproperlycleanyourmeta4917]

The nato warsaw pact map, poland looks absolutely T H I C C

[@HBKnowItAll]

How to properly clean your metal computer it’s it’s Pre-WWII borders.

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

In that last map, they merged 3 states together! Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut forma super state just south of demented New Hampshire which apparently had Pittsburgh and everything north of it annexed by Canada. As revenge, New York took some of Candada.

[@ModernWhoFan5B]

Welcome to world history! Cartography done by... My 8-year-old with MS Paint!

[@bengineer8]

What is funny is that tiger star uses ms paint

[@thatonefootballcardguy]

EmperorTigerstar: “Number three.” Also EmperorTigerstar: **uncontrollably laughing**

[@KermitlaGrenouille_]

"dishonerable" *cries honourably*

[@TheShadowWolfie]

The funny thing is that that's not even the American spelling of the word.

[@imperatorpalpatine1351]

first emperor of the Galaxy.

[@SuperCatman]

HURR DURRR

[@sco2oter]

Dew it !!!

[@allenshen4902]

Its treason then

[@FlagArmadaProductions]

Hail Palpatine! Glory to the dark side! Being good is so plain and boring!

[@gekkenhuisje]

But have you heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?

[@supaidaman9750]

The Warsaw Pact map deserves much more than a (dis)honorable mention. The Civil War map is children's birthday party in comparison.

[@MegamikazeMoriko]

1:39 OUTER MONGOLIA

[@arifakyuz7673]

Because Inner Mongolia exists as a country In the Outer Core

[@screamingbrick7706]

Inner mongolia is a region in china, which has a high population of mongolian people and used to be part of mongolia, so sometimes people might refer to the state of mongolia as outer mongolia

[@eip81]

History is in order - the Qing Dynasty conquered the Mongols. The modern country of Mongolia was declared over the province of "Mongolia" which had previously existed. "Inner Mongolia" is still a current province of China (People's Republic). The map didn't need the word "Outer".

[@magnuskotm9331]

A bit out of context but I want to share a few moments of history teacher I had in elementary school(8 and 9th grade)- before I say anything I live in the Czech Republic and she was HORRIBLY focused on only our history - 1) this was the last test I had from history in elemntary school and there was the qustion "What was the name of the Bohemian king who was also emperor of the HRE? " When I said that there were at least 2 (Sigismund and Charles IV) she laughed at me saying tthat Charles was the only HR Emperor who also ruled Bohemia(btw I'm pretty sure there were far more than 2 these are just the ones I could think of at the moment) 2) We were supposed to learn about the cold war for the remaining 2 months of school- we spend 3 lessons learning about Korean war, Vietnam war, Suez canal crysis etc. and then she was like :" Ok now that we know what was happening in the world we'll spend all the remaining lessons lerning about the cold war in Czechoslovakia" 3) She gave us a test that was pretty easy but we had very very little time for it (it seemed like she even intentionally shortened it) and were no 1s(As) a few 2s(Bs) and the rest of the class mostly had 4s(Ds) or 5s(Fs). All that just because she gave us so little time. But then One girl started crying because she was used to much better results then the one she got and so the teacher gave her 40 additional minutes. The girl got 1(A) and then the teacher laughed at us for being stupid or unpepared........there were far more situations like this but these are the ones I remember

[@workingonaname4896]

How was number 2 bad?

[@mistersmiley9425]

I remember once I saw a map of 1914 borders in a history book and it showed the German Empire owning land up the Urals and I legitimately cried in that lesson.

[@TheLowlyyouarenice]

As a Minnesotan, that map really makes me go wtf is wrong with them?

[@battlepro77]

Mr Lowlyyouarenice I'm so glad that I'm not the only Minnesotan who thought that.

[@TheLowlyyouarenice]

Exactly! Maybe they were on drugs or something when they made that map.

[@dcarterm8371]

Mr Lowlyyouarenice As a person raised in Kentucky I am offended

[@TheLowlyyouarenice]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you

[@TheLowlyyouarenice]

Joe Cassidy true

[@daviiiid.r]

Emporor tigerstar to the textbook makers: Stop it. Get some help

[@OllerHaha]

As much as I love maps and empires and related topics, this video was really condescending in the fact that you just laughed at them and expected every single person who watched this video to know EVERYTHING wrong with the map. Your mapping videos are great and all, but this one just makes me cringe.

[@allegrablack1583]

That thing tho learn geography and history please

[@OllerHaha]

@@allegrablack1583 I do understand what is wrong with these maps, but the way he presents it just sounds so cringy and condescending.

[@chingizzhylkybayev8575]

@@allegrablack1583 we tune in to his channel to learn stuff. He really needs to deliver.

[@sodinc]

but.... it is so obvious

[@ffreeze9924]

I’ve been periodically checking on this video over the past year, understanding a little more each time. I finally know everything wrong with it after all this time

[@casey6556]

As a Canadian, the worst map to me was the British Empire one. It's like they didn't f***ing care about Canada at all! "Should we actually bother colouring in these northern islands, Nova Scotia, or the (separate but still British) colony of Newfoundland?" "Nah m8 no one will notice"

[@michaelburgarino]

What did they do to my beloved Wisconsin? 😩

[@theepicbagon1562]

Michael B same

[@nathanthompson6917]

Michael B YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT BAD, JUST LOOK AT MINNESOTA

[@declanmiller9524]

Michael B Blame Iowa. land hungry jerks.

[@hungryhungryhungary3473]

HEY WERE THE ONES WHO SUFFER. YOU STOLE OUR FARMS ON THAT MAP

[@77AussieRulz]

At least you have a state. My Connecticut is merged with Rhode Island and Massachusetts

[@SchlesMapper]

1:26 Did you notice that there's "Austrian *Hapsburg* Territory"?

[@andreaspapachristos5947]

They did owned it after the war of the Spanish succession

[@sapphron]

3:11 the wonderful state of Connecti-massa-island

[@JoshyFuck]

Diet Coke New England

[@szfpa]

Don't forget new delajerseyware

[@silentghost004]

When you have little to no knowledge of history, geography, and maps so you just sit there like "ah, I see. I see. I don't get it"

[@orlandogodinez9746]

1:07 what a cringy fake laugh tbh.

[@ToastieBRRRN]

Well the Hanover kings/queens of Britain were also the rulers of Hanover. Weren't they?

[@jaeckex6214]

Yes, but according to this map not of the Emsland, but instead of Magdeburg. (like pls)

[@chingizzhylkybayev8575]

Renegade that didn't make Hanover part of Great Britain. Is modern Canada part of the UK, for example?

[@einfrankfurter3520]

Also Windsor was named "House of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha" back then.

[@d_wang9836]

The most unrealistic map I ever seen was one called"The road to your success"

[@normiehater6663]

2:00 Also, “Outer Mongolia”. I know about Inner Mongolia being a part of China, but Mongolia is still just Mongolia.

[@kasmalper418]

In the second map whats wrong is byzantine empire didn't control egypt back then, manzikert was much more west than it should have been and sejuk empire didn't control Arabia, only persia, anatolia some bits of syria and iraq. That was painful to look at

[@oliver1355]

*Ahem* also look at Afghanistan.

[@StrikeFromTheSkies]

The entire map is a fucking mess. It's from a weird perspective and is oriented so that West is where one would expect North to be. It's somehow stretched near the borders, Afghanistan is misplaced by a couple thousand kilometers to the South, let alone the fact there was no such state as "Afghanistan" until half a fucking millenium after the Seljuks. Egypt had not been controlled by Byzantium a good 300 years before the Seljuks, too.

[@isaacsorrels4077]

Fatimids always being disrespected by those damn Sunni Turks. Now the Byzantines got their coastline.

[@Shawouin]

But Seljuks did control Medina and Mecca in Arabia.

[@cmd31220]

Thank you. I honestly didn't know what was wrong other than Afghanistan taking up apparently the entire Indian subcontinent

[@LuisGutierrezG123]

OH MY GOD CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? AND DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON... I seriously don't know what's wrong with these maps, please elaborate

[@farhanatashiga3721]

01:46 that's a huge north Korea if you ask me

[@TheShadowWolfie]

If only...

[@lapisleafuli1817]

I didn't even notice that. it looks like they have Seoul.

[@elchungo5026]

Farhan The Badass Scizor I think I know who the artist is...

[@JoCE2305]

Farhan The Badass Scizor No it's smaller...

[@JoCE2305]

Farhan The Badass Scizor The entire peninsula shrunk.

[@calebshade4991]

I enjoyed this a lot! You should do more of these (maybe even an episode 2?).

[@slowerlane]

To summarize: 0:45 Hungary should be further north. Also, unified Germany did not exist during that period...…... 0:55 Pakistan area is labeled Afghanistan, which is actually a little further north...…... 1:07 Ireland is not part of Great Britain. Hannover should be a little further south. Sweden should be labeled "Norway/Sweden". Paris is just a little more east...…...1:40 Southeast Asian countries borders are a little sloppy...…..2:17 Burma is not a part of India. Also, Bermuda is a little more east.....….2:24 East Germany is drawn too large. Also, Poland is shown with its pre-1939 borders, when Germany was all one country. If it's going to show East and West Germany, then Poland should be moved further west........3:00 Connecticut and Rhode Island are not shown. New Orleans is shown as a separate state. The borderlines between all the upper Midwest states are drawn rather sloppy. Iowa should be smaller.

[@cavestoryfan10]

Wait, excuse me if I'm dumb but what is wrong at 2:20?

[@dellreed9589]

That last map. I live along the Ohio river on the border to West Virginia. There's a huge chunk of WV missing in that map. It's supposed to be sandwiched between PA and OH, but whoever drew the borders made that state just look like a weird blob to me.

[@deesimonds9591]

That map also looks like that Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut were all merged into one New England State.

[@sodogewow9049]

lol the map maker was just drunk , thats all

[@masonward6962]

you didn't mention how Atlanta magically grew legs in the last map and migrated to the center of Georgia...but Patrick would be so proud

[@iarchiver1354]

Try to see the maps from Yakko's world

[@steparsteparest1121]

They're not meant to be accurate nor historic unlike those from this book.

[@iarchiver1354]

He did not even mention San Marino and Vatican City

[@seamusmccune5121]

Those hurt me physically

[@maarten9272]

Seamus McCune Shut up Harambe.

[@userwhosinterestedin]

Seamus McCune omg Harambe you live??

[@seamusmccune5121]

userwhosinterestedin ye fam squad

[@hongkonger885]

Looking back at my own history textbooks, your textbook is considered "good" already

[@martif565]

According to the last map, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts are one big state. Please Help

[@eerovepsalainen4159]

I found a history book series from 1970s in my bookshell and oh the maps were so unclear and failed that i got bad dreams from them

[@dragonborn3609]

1:04 bro just tell me why so I can understand and laugh.

[@RyanLynch1]

Dragonborn 360 same

[@dk.kapsukas2195]

Dragonborn 360 I think its Afghanistan

[@kiel_3222]

Dragonborn 360 they improperly marked the territory of the Byzantine empire,failed to show Damascus and thr advancement of the seijuk are wrong ...

[@howamidoing6900]

Just look up a real map of these empires

[@MaxSchnell43]

I also think it's bad because it's not oriented with north on the top, unlike most maps

[@RipRLeeErmey]

*See nothing wrong with any of the foreign maps.* *_SEES EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE US MAP_*

[@arielgaray302]

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman It happened the opposite for me 😂

[@tallerstond8105]

Ariel G same

[@Housenka03]

Ariel G same

[@DetectiveNyx]

*Sees nothing wrong with any of the maps because I live in the middle of nowhere*

[@ee-wo9rh]

Same

[@erwingalgo3264]

1:08 Laughs hysterically at the Seven years war map

[@HurricaneHunter03]

I'm just.. Laughing my ass off... just... HHHHAAAAHAHAHAH

[@s0l4r4s]

holy crap what happened to Wisconsin

[@dennisshaykevich3451]

Comrade S0l4r It's get sucked into a black hole along with Minnesota.

[@giorgiobonsi2758]

I really appreciate Milan in the first map near the sea, it will be more beautiful. But i question where is genoa (Sorry for eventual mistake im italian)

[@jeffreygao3956]

Does this damage your childhood?

[@PolskiHetman]

Jeffrey Gao yes

[@sleepdeep305]

Jeffrey Gao It damages my eyes more.

[@jeffreygao3956]

+NovemberTheHacker You don't frighten me.

[@jakeg3126]

You spelled dishonorable wrong... that's a mention

[@RIFLQ]

You spelled "that's" wrong. It should be "That's".

[@cantorlok2815]

Luke Skywalker No it shouldn't.

[@CODELIRIOUS-sy8xz]

Count Orlok Yes. Yes ...Yes

[@Enmerkar_of_Uruk]

Don't you mean dishonourable?

[@CODELIRIOUS-sy8xz]

Kaoru Heiwajima It’s different from American English to English

[@sciblastofficial9833]

Petition: Change your name to KaiserTigerstar

[@moarice509]

The last dihonourable mention is every early 20th century Polish nationalist's wet dream lol Well, except Prussia and Lithuania.

[@moarice509]

USSR did own Moldavia, or at least Bessarabia (or modern Moldova) though. And Greece, Turkey and West Germany joined in 1952 (1955 for West Germany), so that's probably from before that. And Czechoslovakia isn't really that bad, but it shouldn't have Carpathian Ruthenia.

[@PolskiHetman]

Moarice I wish we kept those lands and got the lands from Germany that we have now because we lost so much land marks that we had like 600 years ago

[@Cocacolucarasol869]

I like your comments XD

[@aironquetulio3270]

Yoro Your people wet dream is probably the EU4 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

[@moarice509]

Considering how laughably overpowered and lacking the internal strife it historically had, definitely.

[@marel197]

these maps are perfect for an alternative history of the world

[@HisMajestyGuigui]

"Kingfisher History Encyclopedy" Is that related to Huey Long?

[@primalreversion7034]

Kingfisher is a company, named after a bird. Also EVERY MAN A KING! SHARE OUR WEALTH!

[@Slagterfar]

*sees video on recommended* "Pfff, can't be that bad" *clicks video* "Sweet mother of christ"

[@denpadolt9242]

This is exactly like the Ted-Ed video on flag design. It makes you go from "Meh, whatever." to "Jesus, that is bloody atrocious!"

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

Starts off as a passion project -> turns into a cash cow☠️

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Nah, I ended the series because I ran out of passion for it.

[@SvenskaKrig1709]

I am glad Pomerania has been returned to die Vaterland.

[@kaczuszkapaczuszka7979]

SirGrips But we still have Silesia (Muahahahaha)!

[@garygartenzwerg9870]

Nikozja pffp. Remember what happened to the last group of people who pissed the Germans off?

[@jakubcesarzdakos5442]

Back in Poland!

[@gluciopl2174]

*fills it with africans* I think its better that they are with us, Mr. I destroy Europe

[@gluciopl2174]

Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin You mean conquered twice with Russia and Austria? Never alone?

[@Voltorb1993]

2:26 Ok, I am by no means historian, but I am European and holy fuck...... it's a map trying to show where NATO and where Warsaw pact countries were (so situation after world war 2) - showing borders BEFORE world war 2! How do you even make such mistake? Poland and Germany borders are completely different after world war 2! (and Czechoslovakia changed borders slightly too) my god, this is painful

[@tyler8253]

Voltorb1993 It's not even pure pre-WW2 borders either. Poland owns Silesia for some reason and the USSR absorbed all of East Prussia.

[@jlsa13]

Interestingly enough, my sister has a massive (like, a whole wall) map of the world produced in the US "at some point" (there is no date) but clearly post WWII, I think we eventually guessed 1953 (it shows, for example, Crimea as part of the Russia part of the USSR). Apart from Silesia, it shows those borders for Poland, Eastern Germany and the Soviet Union. It also shows - with dotted lines - the borders that we would recognise as correct for the time. That't not to excuse the map shown here, just that it they were copying from an early 1950s map - or even one made at the time of the formation of the Warsaw Pact for example - the view of the world that the people of the time might have wanted to show might not necessarily have matched the reality on the ground (or what we now thiink of as the reality)

[@tallerstond8105]

Voltorb1993 That’s not even borders of interwar..

[@KemsKat]

At least they gave poland silesia back XDD and switz looks just fuckin awful ugh

[@philipschloesser]

What is it with English-speakers consistently misspelling "Habsburg"?