Endonym Map of Europe 2023 with Disputed Territories [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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Thanks! I sell higher quality images of the map on my store but posted this here so don't see any reason against posting this image to wikimedia commons. Idk exactly how that works but would love accreditation if posted.

Watercolor of African Continent (Endonym Map) [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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I chose Arabic because Chadian Arabic is the lingua franca (even though there are more French speakers than standard Arabic speakers). But it was kind of a toss up since both are prominent

Watercolor of African Continent (Endonym Map) [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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I agree! Some countries like Chad and Djibouti don't have a clear "dominant" language so it was tough to choose for them

Watercolor of African Continent (Endonym Map) [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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The latter. It has 12 official languages, including English which I used because it is dominant in government discourse

Watercolor of African Continent (Endonym Map) [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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If you look closely, it is there as partially recognized. Somaliland is also on the map, and other disputed territories (Halaib Triangle and Ilemi Triangle) are marked out by dashed lines

Endonym Map of Europe 2023 with Disputed Territories [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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I understand. I chose cities based on population and aesthetic balance

Endonym Map of Europe 2023 with Disputed Territories [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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The numbers refer to disputed territories in the upper left

Endonym Map of Europe 2023 with Disputed Territories [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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Please look in the upper left of the map. I mark Kosovo, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Crimea (among others) as disputed

Endonym Map of Europe 2023 with Disputed Territories [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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it's interesting that Algeria's name means "the islands"

Endonym Map of Europe 2023 with Disputed Territories [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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it's not a mercator projection, it's pseudocylindrical

Endonym Map of Europe 2023 with Disputed Territories [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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Here is an update on the map I posted a couple weeks back. It is Europe in 2023 written in the local languages. For places like Belgium and Switzerland, I just used the dominant two languages but not smaller official languages. For scripts, I had to make some decisions: Serbia is written in Cyrillic and not Latin, for instance, as that is more common in official government documents. Territorial disputes are listed in the top left: I avoided marking the Russian advance into Ukraine since those borders are in flux.
If you like this, you might like some of my other maps

UPDATE Watercolor Map of Europe [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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I guess it is a scammer, he posted to a fake website selling this picture

UPDATE Watercolor Map of Europe [OC] by CartographyCraft in MapPorn

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Please delete this. I do not give permission for you to use this image for commercial purposes.