ABC Wednesday: Z is for Zambia Zimbabwe Zanzibar

I was trying to think of something for Z when the Doctors Without Borders Map I have on a wall jumped out at me with Zambia, Zimbabwe and Zanzibar.

I keep that map up because I am constantly confused when looking at the globe that used to be my parents which has the names that countries were designated by on maps when I was growing up.

As you can see on the globe above Zimbabwe was designated as Rhodesia on the globe I used growing up. The U.S.S.R. was also designated on that globe as you may be able to make out below. My daughter wasn't confused because she had a very large beach ball size inflatable globe when she was growing up but I don't know what happened to that so I keep the maps that Doctors without Borders sends me tacked up on a wall.

I should throw away the old globe because it isn't fancy or anything and it's way out of date. I do like being able to see the world from the perspective of a globe rather than a flat map and I can always locate somewhere on new maps and then put it in perspective by looking at the area on the globe. Click for ABC Wednesday's Home Site.