ArtWerk's map of his "beloved Europe"

ArtWerk drew this map of Europe, titled "Where I Live." Be sure to read the lively debate over at Flickr, both in the annotated notes and the comments.

[#1 posted by Anonymous, May 1, 2009 10:25 AM]

Seems about right to me.

It's interesting that the only country labeled with its appropriate name is Armenia. Equally interesting is that only part of Romania is labeled.

[#2 posted by Manooshi, May 1, 2009 12:03 PM]

Lol.

[#3 posted by Jonathan Badger, May 1, 2009 12:42 PM]

Actually, the country labeled "Upper Romania" is not part of Romania at all -- it's Moldova. Although I'm sure the point is that Moldova is somewhat of an artificial construct created by Soviet occupation, despite the historical existence of a medieval "Principality of Moldavia".

[#4 posted by guillaume_remy, May 1, 2009 1:06 PM]

I suppose he's a member of the World Company
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv5zGwqcNm0&hl=fr

[#5 posted by Anonymous, May 1, 2009 1:15 PM]

It's funny he labeled Iceland as Bjork... because it's true.

[#6 posted by trimeta, May 1, 2009 9:38 PM]

Why is Andorra differently-colored but not labeled?

[#7 posted by Anonymous, May 2, 2009 4:43 PM]

@ Trimeta...

Likely because it's so tiny? If you wrote something over it, it would be invisible... beside it, you would be seen as labelling something about Provence/Catalonia...

[#8 posted by Anonymous, May 2, 2009 7:53 PM]

Andorra appears to be the same color as Switzerland (Bank). Apart from tourism and its status as a tax haven, it (like Switzerland) has no reason to exist.

[#9 posted by Anonymous, May 2, 2009 8:36 PM]

Andorra appears to be the same color as Switzerland (Bank). Apart from tourism and its status as a tax haven, it (like Switzerland) has no reason to exist.

Precisely because they are tax havens, these two countries should exist. There should be more countries, more tax havens like them.