The title says most of it. State boundaries are pretty important to people in the U.S. They appear on our globes and maps. I was wondering if globes made for other countries have the states marked off as well or if the U.S. is just represented as one huge landmass?
I don’t have one handy, but they will typically have the important (and easily-marked) ones. California and Texas, sure. Maryland and Rhode Island, don’t hold your breath. Canadian & Australian provinces are easy to indicate because most of them are bloody huge. And the most numerous & prominent markings are cities.
On the other hand, I guess there’s little effort to indicate regions of Russia, China or Brazil, all of which would compare in size. So maybe you’re right that it’s about importance.
Errr, make that Canadian provinces and Australian states/territories/whatever they are
The political globes I’ve seen here in shops show state/provincial boundaries for countries like Australia, Canada, the USA. Physical globes are less likely to show the boundaries.
I have a globe that shows US and Australian states, but interestingly, it doesn’t show Canadian provinces.
I just had a look at lunchtime in one of the specialist map shops. All of the globes, even the cheaper models, show the boundaries of the Australian/US states and Canadian provinces. The higher priced globes also show the boundaries of the Brazilian states.
Thanks for that extra effort! That is the beauty of the Dope. You casually wonder something and just a little while later people from half-way around the world are in the field doing research for you.
I was just thinking the same thing. Any Dopers from Europe, Africa or even farther afield want to weigh in?
I’ve just checked my cheap globe. It doesn’t have US states and Canadian provinces marked on it, but it does have names of Australian territories on it without the boundaries.
My globe (German, circa 30-35 years old, diameter circa 30 cm; physical with/political without illumination) shows the borders of US states, Canadian provinces, Australian states, Brazilan states and republics of the USSR but not those of Mexican states or Russian oblasti.
Hey. It’s not the size of your state that matters. It’s what you do with it.
I’ve also noticed that in some cases depending on the country of a globe/maps manufacture, the size of the US will differ in noticable proportions.
Ahem…
With (flat) maps that’s understandable - the apparent size of countries depends on the choice of projection. But with globes you’d have to misrepresent the actual longitude/latitude of given geographical points. Do you have any examples/cites for this?
I have an Israeli map of the world on my wall. It does not have any domestic political boundaries marked on it, for any country.
FTR, it also has the West Bank as part of Israel.