Geographical abominations that should not exist

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Estcourt Station,Maine / Pohénégamook, Québec Firefox_Screenshot_2026-06-04T05-04-14.443Z.png
That's not a Google maps mistake that's the actual border line going directly through a bunch of houses.
 
I present perhaps the most dysfunctional country in the world for your consideration.
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Half its provinces are dealing with armed conflict, over 100 armed groups run rampant, the government barely exudes any authority outside the capital, grinding poverty despite being one of the richest countries in minerals, and hundreds of ethnicities and tribes, there is no reason the DRC should continue to exist, or why it shouldn't have collapsed years ago. Yet it does, somehow, for reasons beyond my grasp.

Thanks, Belgium!
Why is Doctor Congo so large he encompasses multiple polities?
 
My favorite is the part of Papau New Guinea that has the most horrific cultures known to man sandwiched in island valleys that the government has basically no control over because of the militias roaming the place. Indonesia's population is effectively just centered on the islands of Java and Sumatra with handfuls spread out across the other islands. That massive island Borneo? Yeah, not densely populated and half of it belongs to Malaysia with an lmao random microstate shoved in for good measure.

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Indonesia killed millions of its own citizens under suspicion of communism back in the 1960's and no one gave a shit. Sometimes you just wake up, decide your neighbors have to die, and carry on like nothing happened. Be almost like waking up, slaughtering anyone who uses instagram, and going back to twitter as if nothing had happened. Alas, that's just how it is with seamonkeys. The Cambodians went on a decades long self-inflicted deurbanization/bingo card of warcrimes spree because some faggot decided that true communism hadn't been tried yet. Actually..... maybe the Indonesians were onto something...
 
I know people have already mentioned India in this thread, but this piece of land near the India-Bangladesh border used to be the world’s only third-order enclave, meaning that it was a piece of India, which was within a piece of Bangladesh, which was within a piece of India, which was within Bangladesh, which was just as insane as it sounds.

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After a land exchange/agreement between both countries in 2015, most of the enclaves disappeared, but pre-2015 maps of the India-Bangladesh border were extremely messy and hard to look at.

Edited to add this picture someone else took of this region in Google Maps back in 2015, before the land exchange took place:

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Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
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This place is the first line of defense against hurricanes swooping in from the Gulf, and the coastline is eroding so much that the whole town will be submerged in the next 100 years or so. Essentially no land to work with, and no point in trying to build new properties anyways. Horrible humid weather and everybody is poor. Arguably the worst place to live in the lower 48?
 
Iraq - its an artificial state, so much so the hypothetical partition of Iraq (krurs, Shiahs and Sunnis in separate nations) has its own Wikipedia article
Bangladesh - as if bengal browns are of a different shade of poo than indian jeets that surround them from three sides:
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Going east, Burma has no right to exist. Mix of pajeets, chinks and SEAmonkeys prove themselves to be incapable of building a state, let alone a stable one.
Also, whatever the fuck is distorting the International Date Line that much
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Moldavia and most of African countries. They were created to be failed states. Benin not even including Benin City is a travesty and don't get me started on senseless cultural and religious divisions.
 
Equatorial Guinea is the most geographically cursed country in the world.
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One guess why. The government and ruling elites live on Isle de Bioko while 90% of the population lives on the mainland. Which means the country is essentially a colony of the tiny island that rules it from its little elysium, and thanks to the magic of oil money which itself exists off shore, the government has ample funds to hire mercenaries to beat the rebellious mainland down.
 
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