Probably have one of the nicer non coastal parts of Pangea. The Ocean is relatively nearby and the two inland seas make it a better climate than most of Inland Pangea.
Barney Rubble.
Looking at the flora around at the time, possibly a Plateosaurus with a French accent.
Idaho’s Portugal
It looks like my neighbor was Jamaica mon.
Some chunk of real estate east of Hudson Bay, northern Newfoundland and Labrador by the look of it.
The closest, about 500 miles away, would be Western Sahara. Lots of sand.
Water, lots of water.
I live smack dab in the middle of North America, so no new neighbors.
Panama originated volcanically long after the breakup of Pangaea, so none.
France, same as today.
Maybe Sierra Leone or Liberia. Not being very bright I’m having a hard time envisioning which modern day African country would be near to Georgia, USA. Then again I live in western GA so still Florida and Alabama just as then.
Venezuela… once a rift, always a rift.
Looks more like Algeria to me.
Nowhere, since I’m on the Pacific Ocean ^_~
Interesting map, though. I always thought it was weird how modern Antarctica is almost perfectly centered around the South Pole (if you exclude the chunks of missing land), and part of it is very close to a circle.
The Gambia
Let me guess— North Carolina?
Update: Map of Pangaea with modern borders: Incredible Map of Pangea With Modern-Day Borders This new, more detailed map brings in new revised answers.
In my case, it turns out Virginia’s neighbor was not Senegal, it was the south of Western Sahara. You have to cross-reference the Pangaea map with a good modern map of the country. In Pangaean days you could walk from Dakhla, Western Sahara, to Virginia Beach—because it wasn’t a beach then!
Dakhla had been called Villa Cisneros by the colonialists; it was named after a Spanish Inquisitor. :eek: (I wasn’t expecting that.) I like Dakhla much better; sounds nicer.
Geologically, I have to note that the new map I linked to had to finagle the shape of Pangaean geography somewhat to work in the modern borders of countries to make it easy for modern folks to refer to. What are now solid countries sometimes look pretty mangled in their Pangaean version.
I’d like to see geological societies advocate for sister-city relationships based on Pangaean neighborliness. Start with Dakhla and Virginia Beach. Now that it has a beach.
I hadn’t realized quite how long Florida had been America’s wang.
The foundation of Florida is a bit of detached Africa. However, the part above water was deposited between the Eocene and Miocene, after Pangaea broke up. It wasn’t dry land when it broke up.
Panama and Costa Rica originated as a chain of underwater volcanoes far out in the Pacific in the late Cretaceous that eventually drifted eastward to collide with southern North America.