Baikonur is a city in Kazakhstan administered by the Russian Federation. The leased territory under Russian administration is 90 kilometres east to west and 85 kilometres north to south. The size on a map will change based on the scale and scope of the map.
It is open to visitors and tourists on permit from administration.
Does anyone knows what does the territory of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is administered by Russia as an enclave of Moscow Oblast, actually looks like on the world map? it is inconsistently portrayed as a big circle, a very large area, and very small circle that is effectively only the cosmodrome area itself, so which is the right border of the restricted area?
Not going to lie, the bizarrest thing of the original map was why the Democratic Republic of Congo still had the name Congo back then, with the former French colony being the one who had to tack on ‘Republic of’ before it’s name, surprised Bechuanland keeps its border (and the othe provinces lose theirs and that the Bantustands did not get land from there or unite with Swaziland or Lesotho. I feel should would be a lot less pink on this map as Nyasaland, Kenya, Tanganyika (meaning Zanzibar is independent), and Uganda are all explicitly republics. Which does have the amusing irony that Rhodesia (probably not just a federation of two here, but loads of tribal boundaries) might be the only country here to stay loyal to the Crown, rather than being seen as in undeclared rebellion. Really though, always nice to see old maps, especially now that Reddit does not ever load images (or posts) onto my iPad anymore. Anyways, I am guessing the sole reason South Africa is called the Republic of South Africa rather than the Union of South Africa is to avoid their being two USAs on this map.
What exactly does this looks like on a XK-BAM and on a Q-BAM?
Does anyone knows what does the territory of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is administered by Russia as an enclave of Moscow Oblast, actually looks like on the world map? it is inconsistently portrayed as a big circle, a very large area, and very small circle that is effectively only the cosmodrome area itself, so which is the right border of the restricted area?
Amazing!, this is the first time that I ever see this map portrayal of the cosmodrome!
Which seems to be this roughly:
I know, I meant it was amusing that back then, before the country was renamed to Zaire, they had the Congo name, whereas now the former French colony is referred to as Congo, without the ‘Republic of’ added to it, whereas former Zaire is now always referred to as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Just a small spelling error but the names of the Bharatic(calling it Indo-Aryan would be better) are slightly wrong. They should be Hindi,Marathi,Gujarati,Sindhi,Sikh,Kashmiri,Bengali,Assamese,Nepali,Sikkimese,Bhutanese(Sikkimese and Bhutanese should be Sino-Tibetan btw) and Roma. Also what caused the Orissans to be replaced entirely by the Kui?
My elderly dad who visited Brazzaville sometime in the late 1980s to early 1990s calls the country as Congo-Brazzaville, and I also recall hearing him refer to the DRC as Congo-Kinshasa, bear in mind that he grew up in the 1960s-1970s, when the names "Congo-Brazzaville" and "Congo-Léopoldville" were still in use, so call him old fashioned in using mid-20th century terminology for countries, for example, when he forgets about the DRC and Congo-Kinshasa, I have to tell him that the country I am referring to is Zaire, the name that he grew up used with.
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He also thinks that Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia still exist, and that Russia is still Communist and ruled by the KGB, whenever I correct him saying stuff like "no, that is the Czech Republic", or "no, that is Serbia", or "no, that is the FSB" he always says, "whatever, same thing!", as a history aficionado I love him so much lol, it is like I am witnessing 20th century history and viewpoints, when I am someone who has no memories of the past century.
