Vanilla world map in Fallout series should be the same as a real map. "The Fallout world is an anachronistic setting historically divergent from our own and fundamentally different from our universe in how the laws of science work" - Fallout Wiki. The planetary topology and world geography is literally the same (considering "minor terraforming" caused by Great War). The Divergence has happened at some point after 1945, so ~130 years is obviously not enough time to introduce human-made changes of planetary scale. Vanilla globes' models are just examples of poor and ignorant modelling.
That is actually a very good point, which I haven't considered before. And the timescale would've been even shorter, since the original plans for draining the Mediterranean Sea fell out of favour after WW2, due to political and technological reasons.
Another thing to consider - draining the entire Mediterranean Sea is counterproductive. The resulting landmass would be devoid of water, essentially becoming an extension of Sahara, and dooming all former coastal cities. In fact, the original idea was to drain it just a little, and utilise the water flow to generate a massive amount of free electricity.
I can't make it work for some reason. Maybe other retexture mods overwrite it, but whenever I activate this mod Antique globe becomes weird and Clean looks the same. That's a bummer, I liked the screenshots of this globe :( I'll try to reinstall this mod
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"The Fallout world is an anachronistic setting historically divergent from our own and fundamentally different from our universe in how the laws of science work" - Fallout Wiki. The planetary topology and world geography is literally the same (considering "minor terraforming" caused by Great War). The Divergence has happened at some point after 1945, so ~130 years is obviously not enough time to introduce human-made changes of planetary scale.
Vanilla globes' models are just examples of poor and ignorant modelling.
Another thing to consider - draining the entire Mediterranean Sea is counterproductive. The resulting landmass would be devoid of water, essentially becoming an extension of Sahara, and dooming all former coastal cities. In fact, the original idea was to drain it just a little, and utilise the water flow to generate a massive amount of free electricity.
https://imgur.com/gallery/MIXul
In Fallout, I believe, US annexed Canada at some point.