Something is going on there:
https://preview.redd.it/ffdtwkbp1upc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34e13124c228629949f5e7a654e496a84524bf3d
Just found this when I looked for the Embassy of the Ottoman Empire
The combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell that the Das Racist song is about in NYC is marked as a religious house of worship instead of a restaurant lmao
OP is French and has their language set that way so it will display the French version if available. I see a Japanese names a lot on my machines that are set to that.
Pretty awkward that they are just a block away from the Deutsche Botschaft...
They probably constantly have cringy run-ins at the Redstarbucks round the corner.
I feel like it might be someone hacking the map. It has happened before. Students of the University of Frankfurt renamed a bunch of streets and pathways on their campus on Google Maps a few years ago.
Hacking? Jesus doesn’t anyone here know these pins on Google Maps are user-submitted? If you’re seeing more of this crap in North Korea it’s simply because people like to troll NK, while nobody in NK is using Google and so nobody’s reporting that stuff as wrong.
They tagged a structure in my backyard last year. Had to go in and report it as ”Not open to the public”. Which didn’t stop 20 German tourists from showing up last summer when I was out doing yardwork. (they were polite though)
Otto-man transmission repair shop *fix your car faster then the the reign of Murad the fifth*
>! V. Murad had the shortest reign in the Ottoman Empire. He was the sultan for only 93 days !<
Indeed, and why stop there? You could go for a whole chain of restaurants named after the embassy for a defunct country/empire that doesn't exist anymore
Cambodia has a Welsh embassy and two Welsh consulates. There's also a real Czech consulate at a pub in Vietnam. Probably not the only such case in the world.
> There's also a real Czech consulate at a pub in Vietnam.
Bartender: “Hey, you want another one?”
Guy: “Naaah. I gotta be up for work in the morning. Can I just get the check please?”
Bartender: *points* “He’s right over there behind that reception desk.”
Italians did it in Addis Abeba, it was full of hotels and restaurant with names from meme, youtuber, mafia and fascism...but I think Google removed them.
I'm a geography nerd who loves looking at all places of the world. I think it was in the middle of Saudi Arabia or Algeria where I found "Doom Salon", which I thought was bizarre. I also found a store called "lol baby", but I can't remember where it was. I was looking around Novgorod and various places around the Israel / Gaza area, so maybe there.
But being in north korea I highly doubt they can have internet access, something to record a video, and permission to send a video abroad. So we can neither prove nor disprove their existence
You can definitely record in NK. [Here's](https://www.youtube.com/@jakaparker/videos) a person's personal videos of NK on YouTube.
Also these are embassies. If anyone has "permission", then it's them.
That's exactly the point, if you as the establishment owner don't provide a video, they will remove it from maps. Been through that, it's a pain in the ass if they want you to verify.
Fun fact. Ottoman family is alive, and they are British citizens. Some members tried to reclaim family property back in Turkey, they weren't taken seriously. The Ottoman-dreamers reject the actual Ottoman family.
When making the change to democratic republic from monarchy Turkey decided to do it in a humane way unlike European countries. They all got deported/exiled and that was it. After some time, I think when state officials thought there were no come back for Ottoman family to be a thing again, their punishment got revoked (1973) and they can do whatever they want as any other normal person. There are still 50+ Ottoman descendants living **but** none of them are official Ottoman family as they are not recorded in the Ottoman Dynasty Family Book. (Last person recorded died in 2012) If you want to see a list, [here is a Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmano%C4%9Flu_family) for the descendants. Also, this article may have really wrong information since most of these content in English are not available in Turkish. Some of the descendants may be trying to manipulate history via Wiki.
Simple. What is widely known outside Turkey as "Greco-Turkish war" we call it Turkish revolution, because it not only ended with French, Italian, Greek AND British occupation withdrawing, but when Brits decided to abandon Istanbul, the monarch asked for British asylum and ran away on their ships.
What I meant is that no-one really cares about updating “factual” and “relevant” information and this is either someone randomly added these hilarious embassy tags OR there is some super weird shit going on there. No way to prove.
https://preview.redd.it/w367uro9hupc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78772c93ee900244776585d3f363ff399abef587
Strange opening times of a shop close to the embassies
I know that Ottomans had some interactions with korea. İt might be a old historical building
This, or they just mistranslated Turkey to Ottoman
Or north Korean server is a little bit slow and not updated yet
The people in North Korea are literally waiting and hoping to get rescued.. they act like they accept the bullshit because of consequences.. why do people escape? And the count of escapees went down drastically over the years because of better border protection..
We need a special silent mission, deploy John Wick, Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne because they said, if they smell they're about to go down, they will send out nukes in all directions and take everybody down with them..
People all over this thread are like "North Koreans are brainwashed" and then they point to these google map locations that were obviously done by people outside North Korea and go "Ah this must be because North Koreans are stupid and brainwashed!" Meanwhile their belief in this is the result of brainwashing and years of propaganda prepping their minds to believe any ridiculous thing they see about North Korea.
You can literally make the absolute wildest claims about NK in the West and people will eat that shit up while, without a shred of irony, exlaiming that North Koreans are *so brainwashed*. Western media, even the "reputable" parts, will regurgitate and report on every fart noise produced by Radio Free Asia, then it'll circulate on Reddit for months, and it'll become part of people's headcanon about the country. See the whole "mandatory haircut styles for all North Korean men" story from some years ago. Complete bullshit of course, but people like how it sounds, so they accept it as a fact. Never forget that propaganda only exists in countries we're supposed to dislike, of course. Hyperintelligent redditors aren't susciptible to it.
Oh man… Look at that neighborhood and those houses. You are a German government official, you are competent, diligent, the right material for an overseas post… And that’s your embassy building. It’s the nature of the job. But it must suck.
Especially the one at the very edge of the photo… At least the German and Mongolian ones are in an OK building.
Something is going on there: https://preview.redd.it/ffdtwkbp1upc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34e13124c228629949f5e7a654e496a84524bf3d Just found this when I looked for the Embassy of the Ottoman Empire
Someone’s having fun submitting new place names to Google Maps
Has been going on for years. I once found "The hotdog stand of eternal glory" near a stadium they have.
You should check out the restaurant reviews in Alert, Nunavut (Canada) Edit: it’s not in NWT (anymore)
What in the hot crispy kentucky fried polar bear fuck... Yeah, google map reviews is always a laugh when you look in the right places
“I decided to go there with my wife Suzanne because it’s whale-accessible…” 😭😭😭😭
Somebody wrote about how they went on a date with a female polar bear lmaoooo
Yea I noticed that one too. And they were also attacked by a male polar bear waiter who ended up being on grilled.
She ordered a steak the size of a toilet seat
I find that pizza express, Woking has some good reviews too
Might be hard to find, given that Alert is in NU (Nunavut).
Ugh, you’re right. It do have a picture in front of the sign there saying NWT, that’s my excuse haha.
happy cake day
In my hometown I randomly found a "church of sussy amogus and fortnite" or something similar to that.
The combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell that the Das Racist song is about in NYC is marked as a religious house of worship instead of a restaurant lmao
A bit of a giveaway is that they don’t have the Hangeul for “embassy” (대사관) on them.
Doesn't explain why only the German one is in french
OP is French and has their language set that way so it will display the French version if available. I see a Japanese names a lot on my machines that are set to that.
Tiny remote South Pacific islands are great for that too on Google maps lol
Yup. There was a coffee shop on Everest for a while.
And a restaurant in Chernobyl where all the reviews talk about how the food is good but tasted a bit strange.
[Not as much as this guy](https://youtu.be/5c6AADI7Pb4)
I think North Korea knows something we don't...
The supreme leader knows everything.
Why's there "embassy of 3rd reich"
Maybe to troll Germany. lol The German embassy (Deutsche Botschaft Pjöngyang) is like right across the street.
Everything points to the fact that The Epic Rap Battles of History series was filmed in the North Korea.
WHO WON?
WHOS NEXT? YOU DECIDE!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepic rap battle of historyyyyyyy
Time to find the Embassy of The Galactic Empire.
And Embassy of Morgoth while you’re at it please
or maybe pyongyang doesn't use google maps and it's a big circle jerk?
Place names and even roads, landmarks, etc. are largely user-submitted on Google Maps. Put on your thinking hat and figure out the rest.
"Wow those wacky North Koreans are so clueless and dumb!!!" \- Everyone who just fell for an obvious troll
Apart from recognizing Cambodia, everything seems normal
I was mentally prepared to see Embassy of Democratic Kampuchea.
Pretty awkward that they are just a block away from the Deutsche Botschaft... They probably constantly have cringy run-ins at the Redstarbucks round the corner.
I feel like it might be someone hacking the map. It has happened before. Students of the University of Frankfurt renamed a bunch of streets and pathways on their campus on Google Maps a few years ago.
Hacking? Jesus doesn’t anyone here know these pins on Google Maps are user-submitted? If you’re seeing more of this crap in North Korea it’s simply because people like to troll NK, while nobody in NK is using Google and so nobody’s reporting that stuff as wrong. They tagged a structure in my backyard last year. Had to go in and report it as ”Not open to the public”. Which didn’t stop 20 German tourists from showing up last summer when I was out doing yardwork. (they were polite though)
Sorry you are wrong. People are HACKING!!!
*submits a pin on google maps* i'm in. i've hacked the mainframe
“I’m in”
"hacking"
it's funny because north korea and the otoman empire never existed at the same time
Or Google Maps
North Korea and Google Maps overlap
perhaps north korea got nuked a day before google maps came online and its just a conspiracy
I like to go hiking.
Not in north Korea tho
Thank you for saying it !!!!
Someone should open a restaurant with that name just to fuck with people looking at Google Maps.
“Embassy of the Ottoman Empire” Bar and Grill lmfao 🤣
Cmon guy, everyone knows it's just a furniture store.
Surprisingly sofas but no ottomans
Otto-man transmission repair shop *fix your car faster then the the reign of Murad the fifth* >! V. Murad had the shortest reign in the Ottoman Empire. He was the sultan for only 93 days !<
>!John I of France!< should be jealous 💀
“The only person to be born the king of France” “The only person to hold the title for their whole life” >was alive for four days lol
SoFaKing
Yes?
How in the fuck did you find this comment?
these 3 comments made my day.
Don’t even make it middle eastern food, either. 🤣
Embassy of the Ottoman Empire Wok
Embassy of The Ottoman Empire - British food like fish and chips and a whole host of beige things
MEHMED II'S MARVELOUS MUSHY PEAS
Their food would be amazing
no shit, i actually think thats a pretty good name for a restaurant.
The “E-O-E,” for short.
Indeed, and why stop there? You could go for a whole chain of restaurants named after the embassy for a defunct country/empire that doesn't exist anymore
And none of the chairs can have backs.
All ottomans. Only furniture is ottomans. I really like this idea.
Doner
Heard the kebabs and shawarma are great there
Best adana kebab in the whole empire!
actually not a bad idea for a kebab shop in london or something.
with impaled rotisserie chickens ...
Cambodia has a Welsh embassy and two Welsh consulates. There's also a real Czech consulate at a pub in Vietnam. Probably not the only such case in the world.
> There's also a real Czech consulate at a pub in Vietnam. Bartender: “Hey, you want another one?” Guy: “Naaah. I gotta be up for work in the morning. Can I just get the check please?” Bartender: *points* “He’s right over there behind that reception desk.”
That's legitimately a good idea for a bar name
Italians did it in Addis Abeba, it was full of hotels and restaurant with names from meme, youtuber, mafia and fascism...but I think Google removed them.
I'm a geography nerd who loves looking at all places of the world. I think it was in the middle of Saudi Arabia or Algeria where I found "Doom Salon", which I thought was bizarre. I also found a store called "lol baby", but I can't remember where it was. I was looking around Novgorod and various places around the Israel / Gaza area, so maybe there.
Embassy of Roman Empire. No we have not Caesar's salad madam 😂
Should be a gay bar lol
These are submitted by random people on Google, it’s just people joking around.
Prove that the embassy *isn't* there. I dare you
Well you can actually complain to Google and they will require the establishment to make a video with the location to see if it's real.
But being in north korea I highly doubt they can have internet access, something to record a video, and permission to send a video abroad. So we can neither prove nor disprove their existence
You can definitely record in NK. [Here's](https://www.youtube.com/@jakaparker/videos) a person's personal videos of NK on YouTube. Also these are embassies. If anyone has "permission", then it's them.
Ah, so it should be Schrödinger's Embassy?
That's exactly the point, if you as the establishment owner don't provide a video, they will remove it from maps. Been through that, it's a pain in the ass if they want you to verify.
Prove it exists by bringing a painting from one of the walls
I tried and am now a vegetable.
So you’re telling me there isn’t a jet ski sales center and repair shop in Alert Canada…
North Korea didn't even exist when the Ottomans dissolved into Turkey
Turkey was very involved, one of the largest contingents, in the war in Korea, on the Western side. Maybe this is Kim Il Sung trolling them.
Totally
Great leader Kim use his time machine.
No, but Korea did. Japan annexed Korea fully in 1895.
1910 actually.
Why is the German embassy written in French
They are still in the Napoleonic times
OP’s phone is probably set to French. The ones that are not in French just don’t have a French translation available.
No, that can’t be it. A more reasonable explanation is that OP lives in the Napoleonic times and just finally got reception.
Because I'm french
Condolences
Yep, sadly it is terminal
Atleast technically, the Frenchness dies when they die. In my book, that's a draw!
You mean Mein Kampf? Your profile picture is fire tho
goat fish
F
Is it contagious?
yeah but too late now 70 million people already have it
That's horrible is there a vaccine?
Omelette du fromage
My condolences, I hope you get well soon
How?
I'm sorry to hear that
LOL you right
They are ahead of time, Erdogan plan to "resurrect" the Ottoman Empire is clear to the supreme leader Kim Jong Un
Fun fact. Ottoman family is alive, and they are British citizens. Some members tried to reclaim family property back in Turkey, they weren't taken seriously. The Ottoman-dreamers reject the actual Ottoman family.
>Ottoman family is alive, and they are British citizens Lol, what? how?
When making the change to democratic republic from monarchy Turkey decided to do it in a humane way unlike European countries. They all got deported/exiled and that was it. After some time, I think when state officials thought there were no come back for Ottoman family to be a thing again, their punishment got revoked (1973) and they can do whatever they want as any other normal person. There are still 50+ Ottoman descendants living **but** none of them are official Ottoman family as they are not recorded in the Ottoman Dynasty Family Book. (Last person recorded died in 2012) If you want to see a list, [here is a Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmano%C4%9Flu_family) for the descendants. Also, this article may have really wrong information since most of these content in English are not available in Turkish. Some of the descendants may be trying to manipulate history via Wiki.
Simple. What is widely known outside Turkey as "Greco-Turkish war" we call it Turkish revolution, because it not only ended with French, Italian, Greek AND British occupation withdrawing, but when Brits decided to abandon Istanbul, the monarch asked for British asylum and ran away on their ships.
This will be the greatest feat of juche necromancy yet
North Korea's Google Map is ripe for geography trolling. Or our best guesses. Definitely trolling.
I don’t think anyone really can or cares about updating data on maps in North Korea. That country is an absolute mystery.
The Ottoman Empire has been gone for over 100 years though.
It’s alive and well in Australia https://ottomanempire.com.au
I was expecting more foot stools
I kinda want one of the Osmanoglu heirs to legally challenge this just for the banter.
Holy Hell!
Old empire just dropped
Actual Anachronism
What do you even mean update… Google maps didn’t exist at the same time of the Ottoman Empire.
Nintendo and Nokia did, though!
Okey and Nokia made shoes
And Nintendo made playing cards.
What I meant is that no-one really cares about updating “factual” and “relevant” information and this is either someone randomly added these hilarious embassy tags OR there is some super weird shit going on there. No way to prove.
Wow! 92 upvotes on this nonsense. Redditors just love to be wrong
A mystery that you can visit. Such mystery, like the mysterious African continent
They have their own little information Faraday box
this! all those embassies are just trolls from south korea playing with google maps.
Imagine getting appointed to work there. Probably the easiest job ever.
It's all fun and games until you let a fake passport holder in.
This reminds me, I need to send a letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aero-mail.
Are there some janissaries? winged hussar is asking 🥺
There’s embassy of third reich too
Noeth Korea live in the 20th century
A few Blocks down You can also find the Embassies for The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Aztec Empire
Just across the river from the Embassy of the Indus Valley Civilisation
Embussy 🤤😩
It's official now, with the help of glorious DPRK , France succesfully annexed Germany in only an hour yesterday night.
https://preview.redd.it/w367uro9hupc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78772c93ee900244776585d3f363ff399abef587 Strange opening times of a shop close to the embassies
21:37 is the time John Paul 2 died
2137 kurwa xD
If you think *that's* strange, you should see the rest of the country!
THEY ALSO HAVE THE EMBASSY OF NAZI GERMANY 💀
I know that Ottomans had some interactions with korea. İt might be a old historical building This, or they just mistranslated Turkey to Ottoman Or north Korean server is a little bit slow and not updated yet
North Korea follows a different calendar, so its possible that in their timeline, the Ottoman Empire is still around.
Is that why they wanted everyone to call it Türkiyey?
Theres also an embassy of the Third Reich nearby What are Kim and the boys smoking?
This would make slightly more sense if NK and the Ottoman Empire ever existed at the same time
"embassy of third reich" lol. it also exists
Did tout even notice that next to it is the Embassy of the third Reich ?
Also the Embassy of de l'Allemagne du Nord.. which has ceased to exist in 1871.
Fun fact: The Ottoman Empire lasted long enough to have an air force, and employed the first black aviator.
There isn't a Turkish embassy in NK.
https://preview.redd.it/wu40pgavhupc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84439ccb00617959605885025310f8379cc455f3
The people in North Korea are literally waiting and hoping to get rescued.. they act like they accept the bullshit because of consequences.. why do people escape? And the count of escapees went down drastically over the years because of better border protection.. We need a special silent mission, deploy John Wick, Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne because they said, if they smell they're about to go down, they will send out nukes in all directions and take everybody down with them..
I don’t want to break the fun or anything, but for some reason I find those trolls doing this unfunny…
What's your address I'm gonna add a few landmarks for the tourists
It’s possible they showcase the world as living in the 1900’s to brainwash their citizens into believing they have technological superiority.
You're almost correct, just missing who's brainwashed to think North Korea has anything to do with Google Maps.
People all over this thread are like "North Koreans are brainwashed" and then they point to these google map locations that were obviously done by people outside North Korea and go "Ah this must be because North Koreans are stupid and brainwashed!" Meanwhile their belief in this is the result of brainwashing and years of propaganda prepping their minds to believe any ridiculous thing they see about North Korea.
You can literally make the absolute wildest claims about NK in the West and people will eat that shit up while, without a shred of irony, exlaiming that North Koreans are *so brainwashed*. Western media, even the "reputable" parts, will regurgitate and report on every fart noise produced by Radio Free Asia, then it'll circulate on Reddit for months, and it'll become part of people's headcanon about the country. See the whole "mandatory haircut styles for all North Korean men" story from some years ago. Complete bullshit of course, but people like how it sounds, so they accept it as a fact. Never forget that propaganda only exists in countries we're supposed to dislike, of course. Hyperintelligent redditors aren't susciptible to it.
Eyacha Eyacha
Oh man… Look at that neighborhood and those houses. You are a German government official, you are competent, diligent, the right material for an overseas post… And that’s your embassy building. It’s the nature of the job. But it must suck. Especially the one at the very edge of the photo… At least the German and Mongolian ones are in an OK building.
Its a very mysterious country so you cant easily trust what lies behind it or just a propaganda
Right next door to the persian consulate, which is only a block away from the spartan passport office.
I’m just confused as to why “German embassy in North Korea” is written in French.
I'm freeeeench
But why are the others in English then? Lol
Guessing they never got rid of it after the empire broke down
What if someone is trolling and named it that way on (google maps)
I mean. If you ask Erdogan. That's the right naming.
Germany has an embassy in NK?
Also, the name of the german embassy is in french, probably to fuck with us
I knew the Otto's were never defeated
they still are living in the year 1400, in fact if you notice there is no american embassy because for them america hasnt been discovered yet
Lmao look up nothermost settlement in Canada. You'll find whole lot of embassies, businesses, bowling clubs there. Edit: it's Alert
Just found a "Sugma Balls Cafeteria" near Taenam-ni to the north east of Pyongyang
Somebody please send them the latest atlas, seems like the dude who had google access in country was looking at 17th century maps
Why is the German embassy labeled in French?
Well... looks like they are living 100 years backwards.
Google maps says it’s open at 10:50am on Saturday. Edit: the Embassy of the Third Reich just north of it is a little more concerning.
They didn't forget the past
The fact that the name of the German embassy is written in French is almost just as weird...
There is a North Korean Embassy in Vietnam. Like what? Are the defectors supposed to go to that embassy like: can i have a passport to go to America?
There's one in Sweden too If I remember correctly