Map Enthusiasts

Nobody’s asking anyone to draw a map from memory. They’re asking a news channel to put in the 5 seconds of googling it takes to procure an accurate map.

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            Russia
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    Iran     | China | Japan
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Saudi Arabia | India | Vietnam
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Basically China, India and Japan with a Vietnam somewhere but they don’t want to talk about it.

China, India, Vietnam, Russia, Australia.

Probably Japan.

Maybe Tibet. Maybe Pakistan. Not sure about Afghanistan.

Australia would include Papua, Vietnam would get the rest of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, you name it. It was a big war, must've been a big place. Who even knows what countries are there? It's like the Balkans of Asia. India would look mostly the same, a bit bigger.

If Pakistan is included it probably would include Afghanistan as Afganistan is definitely in the Middle East and not in Asia, but Pakistan (If they remember it, with the weird border ritual video that became so popular) is so closely associated with India that there's a chance it's included. Maybe India gets Pakistan while Pakistan ends up around Iran.

China gets a lot of Kazakhstan, all of Mongolia and some of Russia. It's possible some random chunk of western China gets the name Tibet. Russia stays mostly the same, whether they or China get the Korean peninsula is a toss-up. There's a decent chance the Russian border just gets moved way north.

Depending on who you ask, Korea might also be included as it's own thing. But it might end up in a weird place like Vladivostok, the Kola peninsula, or some place in China.

There's a decent chance they know most of the main islands of Japan and it ends up looking a little cursed but mostly in the right place. I'm thinking it would either stop short of Hokkaido or seize Sakhalin.

Central Asia doesn't exist.

And the big empty bit in the middle to hide the loading.

Where do they take maps from? 9gag? I mean, maps.google.com is free. It can't be any easier.

The state of Michigan exists on both sides of the great lakes (which are effectively freshwater oceans, containing their own maritime economies, marine salvage operations, maritime weather and even famous lost ships) so there's the Michigan mainland which contains major cities like Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, but then there's the "upper penninsula" which is heavily wooded and some consider a continuation of the "north woods" of Wisconsin. Map for context:

As much as I hate Minnesotans for thinking they are us

I would gladly make that trade