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La Guerre du Petrole (1940) (europe.pub)
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The work titled "La Guerre Du Petrole" by Jacques Mercier, dated around 1940, is a newspaper map published by Desfossés Neogravure. The map measures 41 cm in width and 56 cm in height and is part of a series created for the French magazine "7 Jours." This map highlights the geopolitics of oil during World War II, focusing on regions such as Iran, Iraq, and Russia.

You can find a higher resultion version of this map here.

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[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I like how the UK is cut out into the Americas

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I am pleased that I could instantly recognize the area of the world even though the map is tilted 90 degrees clockwise. I mean the French was a great help to double check, but nobody likes the French anyway so.

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

is it tilted?

[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Slightly, but certainly not 90°. You can see this yourself by trying to match the map location in Google maps or OSM. I think the reason they tilted the map a bit, is that it makes it much smaller, while still keeping Crimea on the map.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You could also check the compass rose at the top to see that the vertical axis points towards NNW.