Ask Wasty; Animalia World Map

 

Wasty: I'm sorry for the slight delay on this one. Had a bad health...couple of days. However, I thought this would be a nice treat for everyone what with the ask, and the fact that I kept mentioning I've been meaning to do a proper Animalia map. This version of the map has a majority of the territories I've name-dropped in Asks and Fics. I didn't take the time to pen in every single country for two reasons. One, because it was a lot of work to do on the fly, and two, because I wanted to leave the map open to accommodate for future ideas as they strike me, both parody names for other nations, or entirely new and fictional ones. 

Still, you can see that Animalia is both quite similar and different from out own world. As you can see, North Mammalia seems to be quite broken up on its eastern coast, and both it and South Mammalia are tilting back to a degree. South Mammalia also has a more flooded Amazon basin. This is due to the fact that both continents were more aggressive pulled apart during the continental drift. You can also see in North Mammalia that I've have blocked out and named the different 'united regions of states'. There are still individual states inside each one, but they aren't all the same names as their IRL counterparts. Especially in the regions marked 'territories', as they are more populated than tribal and native mammals than colonists. 

You can also see that North Mammalia owns less of Alaska in this universe...or rather the "Klondike Region" As well as a 'Mammoth Territory' that swallows the Northern Territories and Nunavet, and it is largely populated by surviving species from the ice age, and considered their ancestral homeland.

Over in Roarope the major differences are the fact that Most of Sweden and Norway have been converted to Greater and Lesser Norwulff, or rather just 'Norwulff' as the teritories are united in modern times. Alceland represents Finland. You can also see the north/south split in italy caused by the rodent exile.

Afrikat is the least changed in geography, aside from the fact that Madagascar hasn't fully separated. You can also see the pride lands, and Ada's species home nations of east and west hyenya. The Pridelands is a little bigger than South Africa and bleeds into more of the northern nations due to its former size. Egyipt is also much larger than it was in our universe, as the ancient egyiptian empire never truly died out and expanded into its present-day size. 

Ursa has more border changes than geographic changes. Grussia still has a somewhat unified nation, still holding Ukraine, Georgia, and other assorted countries within its empire. Much of the middle east has been combined into two empires, New Purrsia and Dromidari Arabia. Bindia has a coastline more closely resembling India's pre-ice age one. And there's a bit more land available in Indonesia. You can also see that enough of a remnant of Sibearia's land bridge has survived the ice age that both continents remain connected, which is why Russia maintains more land control of what would be our Alaska.

Thanks to the presence of an inland basin, Austailia's outback swallows significantly less of the content, allowing for more agriculture than exists in our world. Of course, that's a significantly smaller change compared to the additional continent that has cropped up in the form of 'Sealandia', a version of New Zealand taken from the ice age but never flooded as with ours. A lot of that land is a big mystery for me, and lends itself to a lot of fictional lore building.

And I think that's about everything I can say about this map for now. In the future I'll add more to it, so that makes it a perpetual work in progress. Still, I hope this is enough to sate your map nerdiness, and I hope this is a halfway decent drawn ask for this week. Thanks for your ask!

-Wasty