Missing country !

Austria, between Germany and Italy, was completely forgotten !

Forgotten Gazah territory.

Stamp issued to show the Arab solidarity against the expansion of Israel into occupied territories. But one of these territories, the territory of Gazah, was represented on this stamp as belonging to Israel !

Greece as a continent

Greece became a whole continent. But where is the rest of Europe ?

Wrong map

If this map is correct the Persian Gulf will reach till the Mediterranean sea.

Wrong map

On the map the Istrian province of Yugoslavia was wrongly annexed by Italy.

Wrong map

The Agalega islands were wrongly added to the Sechelles. This was corrected, together with a better position of the Aldabra-islands.

Wrong map

A first stamp showed a map of the islands with the very important 180° longitude line unlabelled. This was corrected two years later.

Wrong map

A longitude of 40°30 North would have positioned the Guernsey island near Madrid. A corrected stamp was issued with the correct position 49°30N.

Incorrect position.

On the blue stamp the small islands Toku and Fonulei were wrongly depicted near Vava'u. The blue stamp shows their correct position.

Wrong map

Stamp issued for the entrance of 10 new countriesinto the European Union. Cyprus appears to have been relocated (and takes the place of the island of Crete. Some borders are missing (Norway/Sweden ...)

Two errors

Stamp showing a real game between Capablanca and Lasker, played in New York in 1924. However the black bishop should be on KN1, not on KB1. Furthermore, the landmasses on the globe in the background have no relation to actual contours.

Wrong map

Hopefully the participants of this sailing contest did not navigate according to this map : where Rijeka is situated on the block, you will in fact find the town of Opatija. Rijeka is located almost in the Eastern corner of this map.

Wrong map

On the map, Nova Scotia appears to be attached to Gaspé Peninsula, New Foundland is badly misshaped, and Paris has been moved to the mouth of the Seine.

Wrong map

Greenland has completely disappeared from the face of the earth

Wrong map ?

Correct stamp for Argentina, as they claim the Falkland Islands, and of course wrong for Great Britain.

Wrong globe.

Impossible to recognise the continents on this globe, they only exist in the imagination of the designer.

Hidden map

The clouds and rocks are disposed to show the map of Bohemia, before it was invaded by the Nazis. The engraver was sent to a concentration camp, and a new stamp was issued.

Potential conflict

Both Bolivia and Paraguay claimed the Chaco-region. Some years after those stamps were issued, they tried to solve the conflict by arms.

Wrong map

Taiwan is pictured at least 10 times bigger as mainland China.

Inverted map

Correct and mirrored map of the Dominican Island

Wrong map

The Persian Gulf has completely disappeared on this stamp

Wrong map

On the stamp, the Nothern exit of the Suez canal touches Lake Manzala. In fact, the canal passis directly into the Mediterranean.

Wrong borders

Non correct borders on the colored part of the map. Was corrected.

Forgotten countries.

England and Ireland seem to have been forgotten on this map.

Upside down.

This map was pictured upside down, with the nord at the bottom of the design.

Territory extension.

Belice (British Honduras) has disappeared, and has been integrated in Guatemala. A correct stamp, however, was issued some years before.

Wrong map.

Pink stamp issued to commemorate the visit of the Italian president to Peru. A wrong map was issued by the designer. To avoid diplomatic incidents, a new grey stamp with corrected map was issued. Some stamps, however, were already in circulation. This stamp, unfortunately for me, is a forgery.

Wrong map.

Gotha, Vienna, Rome and Madrid are misplaced on this map.

Partial correction.

Cape Bauld was wrongly located on the Nord of Cape Norman, instead of South of it. The error was corrected but another error 'Straits of Belle Isle' instead of 'Strait of Belle Isle' was forgotten.

Wrong location

The location 166°E was wrongly shown as 166°E.

Partial correction.

The wrong position 21°10S was corrected in 20°10S. But 57°30E was wrong too, and was surprisingly not corrected in 57°10E

Wrong country

The winner of a golden medal, pictured on this stamp, was a Norwegian from Oslo. He has no direct link with … STOCKHOLM !

Wrong map

Map of the Antarctica, with missplaced longitudes 110W and 120W

Reversed map.

The map in the circle is reversed. Wheb the stamp itself is reversed, the map appears correctly.

Wrong landscape

The wrong skyline of the mountains was corrected by issuing a new stamp.

Missing island

The island of Madagascar is missing

Name inversion

Inversion of the names of Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia

Diplomatic incident

Diplomatic iincident between Turkey and Armenia, when Armenia issued a stamp with mount Ararat. This mount is indeeed located in Turkey..

Other territory

The islands right below do not belong to the Bahamas, but to the Turks and Caicos islands

Wrong map

Jamaica was brought into the picture where San Domingo, a much bigger island ought to be.

Annexation

The red color is covering more than the half of Finland

Political statement

It is obvioous that the country that issued yhis stamp did not recognize the state Israël.

Missing countries

Greenland and Iceland are missing on this stamp.gr

Missing countries

Greenland and Iceland were forgotten.

Missing border

Missing border between the Czec Republic and Slovakia, independent countries since 1992.

Wrong position on map

The location of the city of Perdasdefogu is not correct

Wrong place

Flensburg is situated in SCHLESWIG. Correct on stamp, but the FDC says put it in HOLSTEIN.

Wrong map

The map includes a territory between the rivers Orange and Molopo that belongs to the Republic of South Africa

Vaster than reality !

Some of the territories coloured in red did not belong to the British Empire.

Wrong map

The map showed on this stamp is larger than the one designed by Thompson, when he discovered those territories.

Flag and bay.

The shape of the Hudson Bay is not correct (see other stamp). And there is no red line around the white part of the Canadian flag.

Not the first

The Basilea map of 1540 was not the first map of America, The first map was published in an edition of the Polyhistor by Solinus, which Sebastian Munster edited and printed in Basel, 1538.

Wrong map

The places featured on this stamp are not in the right position.

Three errors

Novia Scotia is pictured as an island, and the USA include the Province of Quebec south of the Lawrence River. And in the upper margin,Trans-Atlantic should have been Transatlantic.

Correct

It has been claimed that on this stamp the western degree of latitude was 6° instead of 61° : however a careful examination shows that the figure 1 is present, bu superimposed on the line itself.

Forgotten

The island of Madagascar was forgotten.

Two little details

The coast between Ceuta and Tanger is cut for more sharply on the stamp as in rerazlity. The Spanish town La Linea is wrongly shown as one single word.

Error in map

The cities Mahlanapeng and Mokhotlong have been transposed.

Wrong map

This map is not quite correct as the northern part, Ulster, belonged in fact to Great Britain.

Wrong map

Greece covers a large part of the globe, ans the Peloponesis is featured as an island.

Annexation

On this stamp Egypt gives away to Israel the complete Gazah stroke that belongs to Palestina.

Missing countries

Greenland and Iceland are missing on the map in the red heart.

Wrong map

The map of Estonia represents the situation before 1945, and includes two landstrips (Petersi and Narva) that now belong to Russia.

Missing continent

Antartica was omitted on the two globes

Missing continent and island.

Antartica was omitted on both of the globes of this world map. The island of Madagascar has also disappeared.

Forgotten continent

Antartica was omitted

Forgotten islands

Madagascar and Iceland were forgotten on this map.

Missing continent

The Antarcic continent has been forgotten.

Out of proportion

Iceland is much too big, and too close to Groenland and Europa

Errors in map

Errors in map : Ottawa located in the USA, Washington at the seaside. Corrected a year later.

Claimed islands

Matthews Island and Hunter Island are claimed by Vanuatu, but belong in fact to New Zealand

Missing continent

Antartica is missing on this earthglobe.

Wrong map

The Hudson Bay has almost completely disappeared.

Not correct

Madagascar and Iceland were forgotten, and Alaska is much too large.

Not correct

The design of the East-coast of America is far from reality.

Wrong direction

According to the map, the sun is rising in the Nord.

Wrong country

First stamp of Rwanda, showing wrongly a map of Burundi.

Missing countries

Greenland, Iceland and Antartica are missing.

Two errors

Portugese instead of Portuguese Guinea. And the country name of Ivory Coast is missing.

Mystery map

The map in the background looks real, but does not represent a known location.

Wrong border

Wrong representation of the border between France and Italy.

Missing continent

All Europe was forgotten on this globe.

Wrong country

The stamp commemorates the stay of Che Guevara in the formal Belgian Congo, but shows a map of Congo-Brazzaville.

Forgotten country

The territory of Israël was included in Jordania

Missing island

The island of Madagascar was forgotten on this map. See correct map on other stamp.

Missing island

The island of Madagascar was forgotten on this map. See correct map on other stamp.

Wrong countryname

It is not England, but the United Kingdom which is a member of the European Union.

Wrong countryname

It is not England, but the United Kingdom which is a member of the European Union. Correct on the other stamp.

Missing island

The island of Madagascar was forgotten on this map of Africa.

Ownership

As in other stamps, Argentina claims the ownership of the Malvinas. From their point of vue of course, this is not an error.

Distorsion

Wrong representation of the Hudson Bay. Compare with the map.

Wrong position

The position of the island Madagascar is not correct, comparing to Africa.

Wrong border

Wrong design of the border between France and Italy.

Wrong map

The map of Germany shows only the formal West-Germany.

Missing island

The island of Madagascar was forgotten.

Missing island

The island of Madagascar was forgotten.

Extended map

The Republic of Ireland added Ulster (North Ireland)to its territory.

Wrong borders

Borders of Greece and Italy are not correct

Too the left

The map on the stamp is slightly turned to to left comparing to the exact situation.

Missing island

The island of Madagascar was forgotten.

Missing countries

Greenland and Iceland are missing on this stamp.

Missing island

The island of Madagascar was forgotten, and the Gibraltar strait is much too wide.

Error in country name

Wrong : Afghanestan - Correct : Afghanistan

Wrong number

The zero meridian is the Greenwich one, not the meridan of Bogota.

Missing island

The island of Madagascar was forgotten.

Wrong location

The location of the Von Neumayer Polar Research Station was modified. The stamp still shows the original location, the red arrow the real location.

Super sized

The USA are 100 times larger than Liberia, but on the stamp their size is almost equal.

Not equal

Liberia is much bigger than Sierra Leone, but on the stamp they have almost the same size.

Not the same size

Norfolk (left) is 50% smaller than Pitcairn (right), although they have been represented at the same size. Furthermore the map of Norfolk is slightly inclunated.

Not visible

The Florida peninsula shouls be visible on the stamp.

Big continent

Australia is almost as large as North America, and the design of Europe could have been better.

Wrong position

The equator does not cross the American continent in Middle-America, but lower.

Wrong position

Wrong : 45°05' - Correct : 46°05'.

Missing territories

The Palestinian territories (Westbank and Gazah) were forgotten.

Wrong border

The border between France, Germany and Switzerland is completely inaccurate.

Errors in map

Borders of different countries are not correct.

Poor map

Strange shape and missing name of Luxemburg, and badly featured border between Belgium and Germany.

Wrong position

The latitude line 177°E was not positionned correctly

Dispute through stamps

Argentina claims the Falklands, as they have done before on other stamps.

Missing island

The island of Madagascar is missing

Wrong map

The Persian Gulf was omitted on the stamp.

Under water

The present Russian part of East Prussia (Königsberg) has disappeared under the water of the Baltic sea.

Missing province

The present Russian part of East Prussia (Königsberg) has disappeared under the water of the Baltic sea.

Missing continent

Antartica is missing

Wrong shape and position

The shape and the orientation of the Barbuda island are wrong on this old map, the position (17°35 - 61°42) however is correct

Missing island

Combined issue Belgium-Netherland. On the Belgian stamp, the island of Marken is missing, correct on the Dutch stamp.

Wrong order

The stamp designer first wrote GAMBIA insead of THE GAMBIA. He corrected his error without changing the afphabetical order of the countries.

Not an island

As North-Korea was not featured, South-Korea seems to be an island.

Too big

The size of the island of Jersey is out of proportion

Too big

The size of the island of Jersey is out of proportion

Drifting continents

All the continents are on the front side of the globe

Missing island

Cuba is missing on this map

Rising sea level

The Netherlands almost completely under water, maybe like it would be in 2100 ?

In the neighbourhood

The correct position shown on the stamp is not 17°35 - 61°49 but 17°36 - 61°49

Inverted map

The Norway map in the background is inverted

In another continent

Mount Huascarran is not located in Nepal, but in Peru

Political statement?

Modify the name of Israel into Palestina will certainly not promote peace.

Political statement?

Israël has been replaced by Palestina

Unknown island

Unknown island near to Africa

Wrong direction

The direction of the next continent after Africa should have been Asia, before Australia

Continental shift

All the continent have been located on the same side of the earth

Continental shift

All the continents have drifted to the North

Missing continent

Antartica is missing

Forgotten

Cuba is missing

Too close

Europe and America are much too close

Missing continent

Antartica is missing

Missing continent

Antartica was forgotten

On the move

Continents on the move

Missing continent

Antartica is missing

Missing island

Where is Madagascar ?

Oversized

Laos is oversized on this globe

Wrong country

This railway is not located in Switzerland, but in Germany.

Missing continent

Antartica is missing

Missing continent

Antartica is missing