What was your weirdest "Playing Outside Europe" reveal?

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Behold

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Although I was playing as Spain, in my first Eu4 game Europe was a mess and not due to me (since I didn't even know how to play). For example, the Livonian Order took half of Russia, the Commonwealth conquered Central Asia (so it had a direct border with Ming) and Constantinople, Venice ate Austria and North Italy, Ulm took South Germany, Hesse took like 3/4 of modern Germany and France the Southern half of England.
 

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The weirdest I've seen so far was Portugal and Morocco swapping places. Morocco owned the entirety of Portugal, while Portugal owned the entirety of Morocco. No idea how that happened.

Also had a game where France ended up split between Britain and Austria. They were allied when I found Europe so I assume they just double teamed France.
 

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This was a long time ago. I was playing something in Asia, maybe Palembang or something. When I discovered Europe, the Byzantine Empire owned all of its borders from 1066. All of Greece, Anatolia, and a bit of the Georgia area if I recall correctly.
 

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I can't remember who I was playing as, it was in India. Once I discovered Europe I found that the Ottomans had been pushed out of Greece and western Anatolia by Morea.
 

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Several months ago. Oda run into Kirishitan Japan. Prots are at it again.

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That's when I realized "wait, is that France as the Emperor?" and actually decided to look at Europe to find this cursed HRE:

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In a very old game playing Pueblo, I had Cornwall who had formed Great Britain, but who had lost England after a revolt ... And Ireland which had formed.

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