Google Eradicates the UK

February 22nd, 2006

The Google Store Map doesn’t contain the UK but Hawaii appears even though the UK’s total area mass is around 10 times that of Hawaii (UK: 244,820 km², Hawaii: 28,337 km²)

It seems like Google also overlooked Madagascar which weighs in at 587,040 km² - 20 times larger than Hawaii.

I guess it’s to make up for the fact the world map in my geography class makes the UK to be about the same size as the rest of Europe.

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5 Responses to “Google Eradicates the UK”

  1. # Aktlauson 22 Feb 2006 at 9:45 pm

    England, what about Greenland?
    Thats a quite big island between Island (which also is missing…) and Canada.

    Also if you take a closer look on Japan, you might understand why they and China have such conflicts….

  2. # Aktlauson 22 Feb 2006 at 9:46 pm

    Opera hanged and I pushed the button twice….

    Oh and I love the “Sick of this guy” banner!

    There should be a way to delete your own messages to clean up posting mistakes such as double posts.

  3. # Daguron 23 Feb 2006 at 8:23 am

    I can’t tell you how often Iceland is left out on maps, even maps of europe >_<

  4. # Sunny Boyon 03 Mar 2006 at 8:55 pm

    Update: The image has now been updated!

  5. # Khloon 03 Mar 2006 at 9:45 pm

    Nice one! Still missing quite a few other countries though.

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