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Do you see what I see?
Nice title after Christmas. Anyway, how should we handle the fact that on this map we can make out pretty much 95% of the countries. Create articles on all the countries? I find it most interesting this is a modern map and shows the Russian Republics in contrast to the original map which showed the old USSR.

I'm not going to go article crazy and start writing country articles, don't worry. Just that by the rules of canon...that might now be allowed. What do people think? -FC 02:30, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * We still can't make out names for most of them. Not sure what our standard before was on that. In terms of Russia/USSR, we can make articles for some of these republics now, I suppose, but remember we have later (chronologically speaking) canon from the 24th century saying that the USSR is still around. --OuroborosCobra talk 19:36, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Based on a brief glance at this map, and we're talking before any enhancement or download of the DVD image on my computer, here are the countries which I feel can obviously be made out:

Iceland Spain Portugal Norway Finland Sweden Libya Egypt Turkey Saudi Arabia Yemen Indonesia South Africa Madagascar Congo Argentina Peru Columbia Iceland Thailand Cambodia North and South Korea New Guinea Philippines Kazakhstan Russia Poland Somalia Sudan

There are others, but that's a good start. Redirects to region or continent articles might be the answer in some cases. Others could legitimately now have a country article written just for them. I guess it will be a case-by-case basis. But, it is established now that this map is canon, that is for sure. -FC 05:24, 3 January 2009 (UTC)