The Egyptian Governor of Sohag, a city that lies on the west bank of the Nile, inaugurated a strange new globe of the Earth on Thursday that has attracted jokes and mockery on social media. This new globe, which appears to imply that South America is a weird clump of land while Australia is strangely close to its offshore detention centers, was inaugurated in an attempt to ‘beautify’ the entrance of a bridge in the city. According to the governor, who was also joined by Sohag University’s President, the globe is a representation of a geographical drawing for the entire world and will act as a “guide and reference” for tourists and investors. #Egypt’s latest freak monument sees, in Sohag, a globe that came out of the wash or tectonic plates gone rogue. pic.twitter.com/wM4pmfB26H — Amro Ali (@_amroali) February 20, 2016 The new statue, which follows a series of unfortunate events where statues have received mockery instead of praise, was reportedly built by a military division that works on ‘national service projects’. While there have been debates about the true size of the world’s countries, none have gone as far as changing the…
