A while ago I discovered that Great Britain... hang on, let's be clear about what Great Britain is.

• Great Britain: England, Wales, Scotland
• The UK: all of the above, and Northern Ireland (and presumably some small nearby islands as well)
• British Isles: all of the above and the Republic of Ireland

So a while ago I discovered that Great Britain can effectively be simplified to a triangle:

Ok, so Great Britain is far from a perfect triangle. But at least it's a start in trying to understand its actual shape. It's in fact a model, a simplified representation of the complex real world, and I like models. They're easy to remember.

I'm now wondering what the world map would look like, if the land masses were simplified to triangles. Probably something like this. (Why triangles? Because they're so simple - only 3 sides).

Voila. Does it still look familiar? Australasia is a square, because I found it harder to fit a triangle on it.

Now let's simplify it again, just for the hell of it.

I don't know why, but doing this makes me feel happy. From here, we can see that the world is effectively 2 supercontinents, the Americas and Afro-Eurasia. Who would win in a theoretical fight? It'd come down to nuclear bombs somehow. And we should flee to Greenland or Australasia, or better yet, either of the polar continents (which are so boring I forgot to include them).