What countries look 'odd'?

darkman2

If you were to choose countries at random and think they have a shape that looks familiar and you cant help but attach funny connotations with them which countries would they be and why do they look funny?



What countries look wierd or funny?


Come to think of it Ireland looks like a bird or a parrot.

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh133/merci26/dub.jpg


Id suggest Wexford is in an unfavourable posistion there - Cork too

monkeyfudge

Sweden and Finland look like a massive cock and balls on the euro coins.

Mr. CooL ICE

France looks like a side profile of a primate wearing a funny hat, whereas Canada looks like the shape of projectile vomit after landing on the ground

WindSock

Africa looks like a neanderthal

http://www.worldaware.org.uk/img/africa-worldaware.jpg

Tasmania looks like a fanny.

map o' tassie is what they call fanny down under

Yeah I know they aren't countries though.

Dinter

Turkey doesn't look remotely avian and Panama is nothing like a hat.

All false advertising if you ask me.

Saint_Mel

Indonesia and Papa New Guinea combined look like a little dinosaur

Archeron

Ireland is a teddy bear learning to drive a car. I thought we were all agreed on that since that learning to drive company put it in their logo.

Not a country, but isnt Miami America's floppy bits?

Oh, and Italy is a high heeled boot.

Saint_Mel

Indonesia and Papa New Guinea combined look like a little dinosaur

pd101

New Zealand is an up-side-down Italy

Ross_Mahon

England looks like a Sh*thole

Rockee

County Down is the ear of Ireland and County Clare is the smiley face.

Deliverance XXV

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

England looks like a Sh*thole

Don1

I think it's Down and Tyronne (forget my Geography) together look like an elf with his hat on.

chakotha

Not a country proper but Indonesia island Sulawesi looks like a funky starfish or a drunken K.

~Rebel~

Canada looks like someone picked it up and then dropped it, smashing it to bits.

humanji

WindSock wrote: »

Africa looks like a neanderthal

http://www.worldaware.org.uk/img/africa-worldaware.jpg

I think Africa looks like a horses head as he leans over to eat something.

positron

darkman2 wrote: »

Come to think of it Ireland looks like a bird or a parrot.

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh133/merci26/dub.jpg

Brilliant imagination! :D

Dinter

Palm island off Dubai looks quite like a palm tree.

FunkZ

America looks like a pile of cow dung!

WindSock

humanji wrote: »

I think Africa looks like a horses head as he leans over to eat something.

Oh yeah, I've never noticed that before.

Dinter wrote: »

Palm island off Dubai looks quite like a palm tree.

Heisenberg.

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fricatus

The Scientist wrote: »

Monaghan looks like Iraq.
http://regmedia.co.uk/2003/03/20/1040.gif

Hahaha, brilliant!

Norway looks like a sperm.

Poxyshamrock

Iceland looks like a duck

oh and county cavan looks like a leg of chicken!

Slovenia looks like a chicken.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/images/europe/slovenia.jpg

Jimbo

Just looking at my atlas and realised Italy looks like a boot :eek:

Oh yea


What's my prize?

dsmythy

If you lay Africa on it's left side it looks like Australia.

Jimbo

dsmythy wrote: »

If you lay Africa on it's left side it looks like Australia.

And if you turn your globe upside-down, the North Pole looks like the South Pole

natsuko

I always thought ireland either looked like a teddy bear or fred flintstones head...
http://www.jabadabadoo.nl/flintstones.jpg

aaaaannnd..... if u just take the northern irish counties they look like a profile of a skull at an angle!!!:eek:

http://www.opico.co.uk/gifs/contact/Ireland_map.jpg

zuutroy

Belgium looks like a brain

18AD

Germany looks like it's the world's third largest economy by nominal GDP, the largest exporter of goods, ranked sixth in military expenditure, and is home to the third-highest number of international migrants.

dsmythy

18AD wrote: »

Germany looks like it's the world's third largest economy by nominal GDP, the largest exporter of goods, ranked sixth in military expenditure, and is home to the third-highest number of international migrants.

Jeez your right. It's uncanny!

Jimbo

18AD wrote: »

Germany looks like it's the world's third largest economy by nominal GDP, the largest exporter of goods, ranked sixth in military expenditure, and is home to the third-highest number of international migrants.

It also lookslike a head with its mouth open eating the Czech Republic
http://www.maps-of-germany.co.uk/images/physical-map-Germany.gif

KnifeWRENCH

monkeyfudge wrote:

Sweden and Finland look like a massive cock and balls

you should see Venezuela!


www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/venezuela.gif

dsmythy

jimbo78 wrote: »

It also lookslike a head with its mouth open eating the Czech Republic
http://www.maps-of-germany.co.uk/images/physical-map-Germany.gif

Typical Germans.

!_Brian_!

darkman2 wrote: »

Come to think of it Ireland looks like a bird or a parrot.

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh133/merci26/dub.jpg

Wow! in 26 years I've never copped that! I always thought it looked like the left hand side profile of some kind of teddy bear or somethin, sitting doen with its amrns and legs out in front of it.

Yours is much better tho!

Jigsaw

I see the parrot thing but the teddy thing seems more relevant. yaaaaay.

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