[richardhod]

This gets Ireland so wrong it is unbelievable. Firstly the British isles are treated differently from all the other islands on the map, and it's hard to tell that there's even a blue line separating it from the rest of Europe.

Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain

And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might suggest Northern Ireland as well.

[tomtomtom777]

It seems correct to me.

The map shows the country "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK) without separating its constituent countries. This is what most political world maps do.

Ireland does border by land to the UK, at the border of Northern Ireland. This is shown with the black line.

Also it borders to the UK and all of the world's ocean bordering countries which is shown through the surrounding blue.

[mannykannot]

It is a little inconsistent in that it shows the Bosporus dividing Turkey and even the Suez Canal dividing Egypt, but not the Irish Sea dividing the UK - though the first two are nominally continental boundaries.

[messe]

Well, if you're going to go down that route:

> the British isles

Many in Ireland[1] would consider that a rather loaded political term rather than neutral geographic one, and wouldn't use it to refer to Britain and Ireland.

> Secondly, Ireland doesn't even have a blue line, which implies it is connected by land to Britain

It's connected by land to the UK. Maybe there should be an additional blue line to denote the Irish sea, but it wouldn't exactly add any additional borders to the map, as GB is also an island.

> And thirdly, Wales and Scotland should really be acknowledged, and at the same time you might suggest Northern Ireland as well.

Why? The UK as a whole is already there. Ireland is a sovereign state in its own right, unlike Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are just constituent parts of the UK. Do you think every US and German state should be there as well?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute

[richardhod]

You misunderstand the status of these countries, which are countries. They have their own football teams. The only reason that they are largely ruled from Westminster is due to the the military strength of England.

[messe]

They’re not sovereign states though. Having a football team doesn’t make something a country, I hope you realise how ridiculous that sounds.

And that last sentence is an extremely revisionist view of British history.

[adammarples]

Britain isn't on the map, the UK is. Boris forgot that the UK had a border with Ireland, don't be like Boris. The blue line of the channel could be thicker though.

[pimlottc]

Presumedly they are counting the land border between Ireland and Northern Ireland (as part of UK), but it’s confusing with the water boundary called out between UK and France.

[richardhod]

Whereas I would call Northern Ireland an exclave colony, although in the current political status fittest part of the UK, much as Puerto Rico is part of the US, or the non-Russia Soviet States were part of the Soviet Union.

[mc32]

Also it does not seem to account for overseas territories/d'outre-mer, but that's understandable.

[cwmma]

It's only Turkey, Panama, and Egypt that have a split in them, as they are places that have notable straits going through them. The UK is handled the same as Indonesia.

The weird thing about Wales and Scotland is that they complete independently in sports stuff not that they are excluded here, they are integrated parts of the UK with the same amount of autonomy as a large U.S. city.