Maps on Album Covers-Reader Suggestions

My recent "Maps on Album Covers" post was as incomplete as my music collection. Fortunately you folks stepped up and gave me some great suggestions. Here they are:

Hell's Ditch - The Pogues

Wisconsin by the Crucifucks

The Ambient series by Brian Eno is all kinds of mappy.

Coming Home by Maggie Bjorklund

No Borders Here - Jane Siberry, although the version I accidentally downloaded from her site has a different cover.

More globe than map but here's Soul Rotation by the vastly underappreciated Dead Milkmen.








This is not the front cover but apparently XTC's Colin Moulding has some nice cartographic skills. This is from Go 2.

The back cover of More Songs about Buildings and Food by Talking Heads. I'm not sure what this map is showing.

Map of the Week-Enclavistan

A recent article in The Economist, titled The Land that Maps Forgot highlights the complex nature of the northern border between India and Bangladesh. The countries have been negotiating a possible land swap in order to solve the problem of enclaves -  islands of Indian and Bangladeshi territory within the opposite country. There are also counter enclaves (islands within islands) as well as the world's only counter-counter enclave.

This detail of the Cooch Behar district shows the border with Indian enclaves in pink and Bangladeshi enclaves in green. Some counter enclaves are apparent such as the ones numbered 33 and 41. These are Bangladeshi areas within Bangladesh, but surrounded by Indian territory.

The full map is shown below. The age of this map is not clear from the article or from its source page but Bangladesh is "East Pakistan" so it's at least 40 years old and may date back to the original partition of Pakistan.

Thanks to my brother (aka "your brother") for his diligent reading of The Economist.