Very unlikely. Many mistakes are small jokes. Norway, for example, has cities named Nynorsk and Bokmål, which are actually the names of two different standards of Norwegian language. Ukraine has a city named Salo, an obvious reference to salo the food. Denmark's capital is called Legoland on the map and located roughly where Billund is (the town with Legoland).
> Norway, for example, has cities named Nynorsk and Bokmål, which are actually the names of two different standards of Norwegian language.
Not only that but the official written languagein the cities named Bokmål and Nynorsk are exactly that, respectively.
In the spirit of https://xkcd.com/2945/ , and having heard the adage that "Wars are God's way of teaching Geography to americans", I had just assumed it was some mortal's attempt at a method involving less "collateral damage".
It has the same forced-to-BS-beyond-real-knowledge feel. It gets most of the outlines right-ish, but just hallucinates a bunch of other stuff.