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TinEye found the image on websites dating to 2015. Alamy has been selling it since 2021. Attributions unanimously say it was drawn in 1924.
So there's two options. Either someone AI-generated an image with a quality generally only possible with current models and not only got it onto two different websites with manipulated metadata but also got a major stock photo agency to sell it with differently manipulated metadata. Or it actually is a human-made image and most likely a scan of an old map.
There is a third option…