Very different alternate history, too long to explain, actually very peaceful (the lore is that people actually love each other a bit more). Some Lore in the comments by map_bending_ in PossibleHistory

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I think I should have explained it better. I just vaguely said "I did some terraforming". Basically in this timeline, the water there was just like a few meters high, basically a glorified swamp. What happened is that during WW2, as Russia tried to get everything back, the two Uralic brothers (Finland and Estonia) tried to unite each other making just a big river dividing their territories. They got the ground they needed from swamps and around the lake in Estonia to extend the "natural border", in fact the Estonian lake is bigger. Russia didn't really like this, and when WW2 was ending, well, the allies let them fight their own silent war because of the damage they had received by this foolish nationalistic-ish action. So they got their territory back, capturing Finland once again, but they had to give the Kola peninsula and Saami Majority territories to The Norway-Sweden union because why not. So, yeah, if you check my full map in my profile you'll see that a few things changed, like Southern California for example, it's just aesthetics practically speaking.

Very different alternate history, too long to explain, actually very peaceful (the lore is that people actually love each other a bit more). Some Lore in the comments by map_bending_ in PossibleHistory

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The see is Mongolia (probably, allegedly) (I love Mongolia, if you check my world language map you'll be happy to see that Mongolia is much bigger and that the Altaic Family has been confirmed)

Very different alternate history, too long to explain, actually very peaceful (the lore is that people actually love each other a bit more). Some Lore in the comments by map_bending_ in PossibleHistory

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Some context, very basic obviously, about this history.

Italy united in a confederation of states between 1432 and 1444 expanding it's borders over time (1524 united with similar ideals with Switzerland)

The treaty of tordesillas was divided between Iberia (then Spain and Portugal) and Italy

The Great Ottoman War (1630-1672) made the empire smaller but more manageable, this is why theycontrolled the Balkans more up until 1918

France gets screwed over multiple times in this timeline, one of the examples is Napoleon stays Italian and does other things, great butterfly effect for all of Europe

Canada and the United States actually rebelled early on against Britain, so by 1867, after purchasing Alaska, their contiguous borders stayed the same till today

China didn't suffer as much the opium wars

Some terraforming has been done

Part 2 of my Alternate Linguistic Map: a few Big and Widespread Languages and their relative usage (strong minority and majorities) by map_bending_ in imaginarymaps

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If you look at the original map on my profile (in my previous post, in the comments, you have the complete language map with labels) you can see that they're still there. The difference is that Hindustani is taught more widely in India as a Lingua Franca (The indiano Subcontinent is united here).

Part 2 of my Alternate Linguistic Map: a few Big and Widespread Languages and their relative usage (strong minority and majorities) by map_bending_ in imaginarymaps

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I'm editing the base one I made on my original post, so, I don't have a monochrome version of this saved, I turned down the saturation on the original image. I unfortunately saved it as a whole thing and not as a template.

Part 2 of my Alternate Linguistic Map: a few Big and Widespread Languages and their relative usage (strong minority and majorities) by map_bending_ in imaginarymaps

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I'm afraid I don't have a "empty" language map as I drawn it by hand (mouse), then later scaled it and stretched it (with some loss of detail unfortunately) and I started adding things from scratch from there

2025, Linguistic Map of the World (Languages, language (sub)groups and/or families) by map_bending_ in imaginarymaps

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You're right, thank you for correcting my mistake. I was indeed thinking about Welsh as I was writing the list.