Pinpointing the date of a globe
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Its possible I can narrow it down further, due to there being no red box in the Pacific for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. That puts it at 1986 or later.
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I've found this wikipedia page, which is precisely the list of "things I have to check" for this investigation.
It allowed me to raise the lower bound to be definitely 1984, and I doubt we can then get more precise than 1984-1990. Still, maybe I missed something, so better answers are welcome.
Useful data
- Ouagadougou's nation is called Burkina (yes, they forgot the "Faso") instead of Alto Volta: 1984-current
- Brunei is independent: 1984-current
Unreliable
- We have Burma and Rangoon: it would make an upper-bound of 1989, but this is likely just a political or localisation problem (map is in Italian)
- I'd just ignore Cambodia: it's too complex, and it might have localisation problems anyway
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- Micronesia's capital (it changed in 1989) is not present
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