That’s right, you read correctly. Bosnia-Herzegovina, that country of 3 million people in Europe, does not exist. Period. Well, according to Citroën at least.
This map appeared on a new promotional campaign for the French car manufacturer Citroën. As you can plainly see, Bosnia has been swallowed up by Croatia and Serbia. Slovenia is suspiciously larger, having occupied northern Croatia. Montenegro too has vanished into thin air. And Kosovo? Well, even though France has recognised Kosovo, Citroën went against the official view and decided that it isn’t independent after all.
Oops. That’s a rather huge (and sensitive) cock-up. Clearly geography’s not Citroën’s strong point.
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on Jul 23rd, 2009 at 7:10 am
Major fail.
on Jul 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
ROFL!
btw, there is/was http://www.citroen.ba if they didn’t hear for the geography maps.
on Aug 27th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Actually it’s not a mistake. A map represents Citroen’s dealership coverage by a branch office not by country. It’s their organization map if you could say so.
on Sep 7th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Citroen seems to know history pretty well as this is how the balkans should look like.Bosnia is a synthetic country made up of Croats and Serbs which the Turks invaded and converted them to islam so i dont see how that gives them a right to make a country rather than just having islam minorities in before mentioned countries.But they had a little help from America to make this happen.Same with Kosovo which Albanians “invaded” with migration.I think anyone can see the hipocracy of America here.And also Slovenia is as it should be but they were naive in Yugoslavia thinking Croats were their brothers and did not set the border of their province.Croats exploited this and claimed the land as theirs after the fall of Yugoslavia.And for anyone who thinks i am intolerant, these are facts and not my subjective opinion.
on Dec 7th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
ah ah bir zamanlar orası bizimdi ottoman empire
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