# Shapes of political entities **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856 "2013-07-18T15:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/21 "2013-07-19T03:24:47Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s several countries, but Scandinavia looks like a horse’s head (with Denmark being a flower it’s eating). > > Austria looks like a turkey drumstick. Sweden also looks like a limp dick, with Finland as the ball-sack. Early Euro coins did not have Norway on them, Norway not being a part of the EU, and people talked about how the coins had a dick and a sack on them. [They put Norway on after 2007](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_coins). ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/22 "2013-07-19T03:31:13Z")
Croatia looks like a croissant. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/23 "2013-07-19T04:54:40Z")
Korea also looks like a penis. Uncircumcised. The area around Gwangju is the foreskin. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/24 "2013-07-19T05:00:29Z")
New Jersey looks like a pig nosed man wearing a kepi. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/25 "2013-07-19T05:05:21Z")
Louisiana looks like a boot or sock that a puppy has chewed at the toe. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/26 "2013-07-19T05:27:02Z")
The contiguous United States looks like a hornless bull with a fat ass. Vermont and New Hampshire look like they are 69ing each other. Pennsylvania looks like North or South Dakota with a giant cyst at the NW corner. You could grab the Gulf tails of Mississippi and Alabama and use them as pinafore flags. Ohio looks like the head of a cow, from the front. Saskatchewan looks like pure boredom. Chile= tapeworm Turkey looks like a big giant turd, with a break off piece to the west. Vietnam looks like a piece of cauliflower, and Thailand broccoli. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/27 "2013-07-19T07:23:21Z")
Thailand looks like an elephant’s head – appropriate since the elephant is their National Animal. France calls itself the Hexagon. … And surely I’m not first to point out that Colorado has the shape of a two-paper reefer before being rolled. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/28 "2013-07-19T07:42:03Z")
Tasmania, well… [Amanda Palmer & The Young Punx - "Map of Tasmania" 8ft. Records - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcoreV10hI8) (NSFW) ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/29 "2013-07-19T07:46:20Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > You could grab the Gulf tails of Mississippi and Alabama and use them as pinafore flags. You mean semaphore, yes? I don’t remember a great deal about flags in HMS Pinafore 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/30 "2013-07-19T12:09:22Z")
I always thought that my home state of Pennsylvania looked like a house with a chimney. The chimney was actually bought from New York so they would have an outlet on Lake Erie. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/31 "2013-07-19T12:18:15Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > [the old woman riding a pig](http://crocs-with-socks.tumblr.com/image/55231273345) I’ve always seen it as a man in a plumed hat sitting atop a grinning giant’s head. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/32 "2013-07-19T13:25:12Z")
I think the [Irish Sea](https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=52.442618,-3.779297&spn=8.562637,18.127441&t=m&z=6) looks like the head of a gormless man with a bulbous nose. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/33 "2013-07-19T15:02:59Z")
When I was little, I characterized Wisconsin as an upside-down boot with shoestrings when we moved there. And upper Minnesota around Lake Superior is commonly called “the Arrowhead” 'round here. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/34 "2013-07-19T15:26:06Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > France calls itself the Hexagon. Not itself, only the mainland. Portugal’s mainland looks like a face, profile left, with part of mainland Spain’s providing the hair (I’ve also heard the theory that the 'do was designed by the same dude who designed Wolverine’s). ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/35 "2013-07-19T15:37:16Z")
Spain calls its mainland the bull’s hide. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/36 "2013-07-19T17:10:14Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > [rabbit on the moon](https://www.google.com/search?q=rabbit+on+the+moon&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=wmjoUeSzJIuE9QSv2oHABQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=320&bih=504#biv=i%7C0%3Bd%7CSCmYc_Ij0GTzHM%3A) I find it funny that based on that Google search, everyone agrees there is a rabbit on the moon but differ on how it is shaped. FWIW I always saw it as pointed to the left with an up swept ear. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/37 "2013-07-19T18:07:39Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Michigan (the Lower Penninsula, at least) looks like a mitten. Wisconsin also gets the “shaped like a mitten” description (though probably less often than Michigan’s Lower Peninsula does). Door County is often referred to as “the thumb”. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/38 "2013-07-19T23:45:37Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > Vietnam looks like a piece of cauliflower, and Thailand broccoli. Thailand’s shape is normally likened to an elephant’s head. Myself, I’ve always thought it looked like the trunk of a dismembered corpse. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/39 "2013-07-20T02:06:29Z")
Ireland has been said to look like a teddy bear (its “arse” is facing England, naturally) ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapes-of-political-entities/663856/40 "2013-07-20T03:14:29Z")
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