lucy24 - 10:41 pm on Mar 8, 2013 (gmt 0)

RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/pub/[^/]+/worldmap/LOCATION1/[^/]+\.cfm /$1/continent/country/location2/brand-term/overview|apercu|uebersicht/ [R=301,L]

You can't have pipes in the target. You can have them in the pattern; it's one of the most common forms of capturing:

blahblah/(onething|otherthing|thirdthing)/morestuff
>>
newblahblah/$1/morenewstuff

Your first post suggests that almost everything can be done in a couple of rules with appropriate captures. That's assuming for the sake of discussion that you want to do mass redirects. Even then, 80 targets is definitely better than one single target.