Google cedes Belgium to Germany
PrintChrome redraws the map of Europe
Posted in Bootnotes, 2nd September 2008 14:25 GMT
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We've got some rather shocking news this afternoon for those of you who've spent years believing you're Austrian, Belgian, Danish or Dutch - you're not.
In fact, you're German, as this map from Google's comic book guide to Chrome proves:
Yes indeed, see page 13 for evidence of your "reallocation" to a Greater Germany. As an added twist to this piece of cartographical mischief, our informant Jestyn Thirkell-White notes that the Sudetenland appears to have been returned to the Czech Republic "in a strange treaty that saw it exchanged for most of Northern Switzerland".
He asks: "What do Google know that we don't?" What indeed? ®
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