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In the monologue (at the beginning of episode 1) you may have remembered a
world map being displayed. The funny thing was that they got East and West
Europe wrong as seen in the images below. How accurate are the borders?

![Mahouka Koukou pre-WW3 world map](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rfhw0.jpg)

![Mahouka Koukou post-WW3 world map](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fPTS3.jpg)

Did anyone notice this?


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How accurate is the World Map in The Irregular at Magic High School?


The map definitely isn't accurate (at least in that it doesn't depict quite a
number of current borders correctly). For one thing, as you noted, Europe
hasn't been depicted well, though it does seem that the part west of Germany
is alright. However, the Czech Republic's border with Slovakia is gone, and it
seems that the border with Austria is also missing. The Romania-Hungary border
is also gone

When you look at South Asia though, the borders are also wrong. While the
India-Pakistan border seems ok, the borders with Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan
aren't there. There are a couple smaller issues with Central Asia.

I initially thought that this might be a 1900's map because of the European
borders, but the North-South Korea division still seems to be there (which
didn't exist at the time of Austria-Hungary), and the India-Pakistan border
shouldn't have existed at the time - so as far as I can tell, this isn't
supposed to be a replica of a map at some point in time in actual history.

**Summary:** a number of borders here and there have been omitted. I'm not as
familiar with the geography of Africa and South/Latin America, but for
starters, the Algerian-Tunisian border has also disappeared in this map. But
there are definitely a number of noticeable errors with Central/South Asia and
with Europe. So this map really isn't that accurate, even if for a lot of the
"unaffected" countries it's drawn reasonably well.


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This takes place in the year 2030 so anything could have happened to those
countries. They could have been taken over or just wiped out.


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They didn't get east and west wrong, as the world is round and you are just
used to looking at the world with the americas on the left and
europe/asia/africa on the right. Also the map is a mercator projection meaning
that it is distorted making areas of low population bigger because due to the
earth being round it cant be represented by a flat rectangular object


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