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Pangaea With Current International Borders

March 3, 2023 14 Comments

Pangaea Map With Current International Borders

Map originally created by Massimo at MI LABORATORIO DE IDEAS

The map above is one of my all time favourites. It shows Pangaea, a supercontinent that existed from 300 million to 175 million years ago, with modern international borders.

Needless to say it would make international relations a little bit more complicated. Major changes include:

  • The United States now borders a few new countries including Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal and Cuba.
  • Spain now has a land border with Algeria.
  • Italy now borders Tunisia.
  • Greece borders Libya.
  • Brazil borders a whole bunch of new states from Namibia in the south to Liberia in the north.
  • India now finds itself in the southern hemisphere, right next to Antarctica.
  • You could walk from Australia to Tibet (which is no longer attached to China).
  • While China has lost Tibet it has gained a massive amount of new coast line.

Notice anything else that might complicate international politics? Then please, leave a comment in the comment section below.

Update: You can now play around with a fully Interactive Pangaea Map With Modern International Borders here.

To learn more about the history of the earth have a look at the following books:

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • The Origin of Continents and Oceans
  • The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
  • Earth: Portrait of a Planet (Fifth Edition)

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Comments

  1. LuisPauloLohmann says

    October 26, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    Brazil would rise to a whole new level in international affairs, but lose all of its beaches. =)

    Reply
    • Carla Marisa Gouveia says

      June 10, 2020 at 8:12 pm

      Thank You so much for giving ussuch good and gourgeous information. From Portugal um the Midlle of Europe and by the way…where would be the country i born?. República Popular de Angola?! I really would like to know. Thanks again for your wisdom. I like it a lot!!!

      Reply
  2. Patriotic COOLGUY says

    September 27, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    where is the north pole in relation to the land mass?

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    • nickro says

      June 10, 2019 at 11:09 am

      Due North of the map ?
      Well , in a European map making way – at the top of the Map !

      Do you mean the where is the Arctic Ice cap ?
      There was a lot more Oxygen in the atmosphere so much less ice at this time .

      Magnetic North ?
      Magnetic north was all over the place as the Earth’s own magnetic field was around ten times weaker than it is today !
      Through the billion years that Pangaea formed and drifted apart the magnetic poles shifted to near the equator right around to being completely reversed – approximately 1000 to 1500 times .

      Reply
  3. A says

    May 9, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    This map is incorrect. Most of Washington State (along with some other parts of the PNW) was under water until around the beginning of the Cretaceous, which was long after Pangaea.

    Reply
    • benny says

      January 4, 2019 at 5:32 pm

      who cares

      Reply
      • Nickro says

        June 10, 2019 at 10:30 am

        I do . I don’t want a Washington T.Rex on my doorstep .

        Reply
  4. Tim Townsend says

    August 1, 2018 at 8:17 pm

    Part of India is way north (or at the top) and part is next to Antarctica. Would love to see an animation showing how they came together.

    Reply
  5. Roshan Koirala says

    September 17, 2018 at 8:01 pm

    Brazil, a country with largest water resource, is landlocked and may be a desert.

    Reply
  6. Timothy says

    January 14, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    I WATCHED A VIDEO FORMING PANGEA PROXIMA AND… ALASKA TOOK PART OF RUSSIA, WHICH, EXACTLY ALASKA WAS PART OF RUSSIA. 🤯

    Reply
  7. Luc says

    March 21, 2020 at 1:03 pm

    How about making a Hilgenberg Flat Earth map?

    Reply
  8. Brajakishore Sutar says

    May 23, 2020 at 6:25 am

    I would love to have the GPS locations of the capitals of different countries during pangea, can I

    Reply
  9. Sagar chauhan says

    September 29, 2020 at 6:38 pm

    Where is Pakistan??? 😂😂

    Reply
    • nobody says

      July 19, 2021 at 5:11 pm

      next to india, are you dumb lol

      Reply

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