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So this was an idea I had earlier based on what I'd seen some people doing on the April challenge
Take a country (preferrably your own, but could extend it to be any country) and using just the outline of it make a new map. From there you can rotate it or do whatever you want. Maybe you want to make France an island. Maybe you want to make Iceland landlocked. Maybe you've always thought your country could benefit from a few deserts. Or mountains, or volcanoes or, whatever.
Ideally though it should be very different from whatever the actual real geography is though