TLK is a wonderful film, but has two geographical goofs.

Disney tells us that the Pride Lands are acually the Serengeti in Tanzania. You don't get meerkats in Tanzania,  or in East Africa. You get something called Banded Mongooses, but they look very different. Meerkats live in south west Africa, in Botswana, South Africa and Namibia.

When Simba and Mufasa view the sunrise, they refer to the 'shadowy place' as being on their right. As they were facing the sunrise (east) that would mean that anything on the right side would be south. And yet, Scar refers to it later as the place 'beyond the northern border.'

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Phoenix blade, March 07, 2007 at 00: 00 Member

Whoa I'm confused.These are messed up in a way.You might be on to something.

JennaGirl, March 08, 2007 at 21: 40 Member

Hm, very, very interesting! I like it. Made me realize that stuff. Scar needs to study Social Studies some more, .

DemonWolf, March 12, 2007 at 22: 33 Member

That was pretty confusing at first, but I now sort of understand what you're getting at here.

Tazzy_1992, March 31, 2007 at 00: 36 Member

woah confusing... good find though

legacy5, April 25, 2008 at 06: 20 Member

But you don't know what position pride rock is at... but I never realized about the meerkats. Good find

Flurrin, May 01, 2008 at 17: 14 Member

Good point. It seems a lot of movies and books get confused about direction...

bambam, July 18, 2008 at 09: 20 Member

great article!

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