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The Treaty of London gave the eastern half to the Netherlands, creating its curious southern panhandle
A series of maps detail the rapid disappearance of Lake Chad in Africa.
This map is part of a series of cartograms in which the actual geography is distorted in order to demonstrate information about the countries shown. In this case, the point […]
This map is drawn up by a proponent of evolution, as can be deduced from the remarks on the map and even its colours (green is good, red is bad).
A tilt in the usual orientation shows Moscow in a much more threatening perspective
Your antipodes most likely have fins rather than feet
For me, this might be the original strange map. When I was a kid, I had the Spitting Image book that contained this map. I spent hours (well… whole quarters of hours) […]
The 'bloodless' Aroostook War is variously said to have cost the life of a cow, a pig, or a single U.S. private.
n n This map, made by Mahmud Kashgari bin Husayn bin Muhammad, was included in his Divanu Lügat-it-Türk, a scientific work he published in 1072 (AD) for the benefit of […]
n Gulliver’s Travels (1726) is a satire of contemporary England dressed up as a faux traveller’s tale by Jonathan Swift, narrating in the first person the voyages of one Lemuel […]
nn n It seems impossible to find an online map showing all of the European Union’s so-called Euroregions. Why doesn’t the EU showcase these transnational regions, conceived to promote economic […]
Even one of the world’s most comically small countries can look back on centuries of territorial bigness.
“West Floriday, that lovely nation, Free from king and tyranny, Thru’ the world shall be respected, For her true love of Liberty!” So goes a marching song that never got […]
If the Earth is hollow, where does all that magma spewing out of all those volcanoes come from? Somebody must have a half-convincing answer to that question, presumably that handful […]
A beautiful map from the time when symbolic cartography was giving way to the Age of Discovery
The southern terminus of the Iron Curtain could have been the starting point of World War III
Castro gifted the island to East Germany. They never gave it back. So whose is it now?
n Another traffic map of sorts. If this world map vaguely looks like it’s highlighting a remnant of the British Empire, that’s no coincidence. This map shows which side of […]
n No cloud without a silver lining: the extensive bombing damage to London during the Second World War provided an opportunity to develop a drastic plan for a green, open-spaced […]