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Despite centuries of war and territorial changes, Poland then looks a lot like Poland now.
If you crave adventure, you couldn’t wish for a better alien planet on which to crash-land
A weird marriage of urban planning and personality cult
How a farmer’s breakfast morphed into the symbol of a language border
The famous and not-so-famous dead of Pere Lachaise
A beautiful map from the time when symbolic cartography was giving way to the Age of Discovery
These maps can open the doors to some very dark powers
California’s varied landscape has stood in for half the world in Hollywood movies. Here is Paramount Studios’ 1927 map of international filming locations, all set in California.
The exclave exists only because the Austrians wanted to spite the Swiss
This satirical exercise in dissuasive cartography painted Ireland as the ‘Emerald Desert’
The weird sport of hunting for animals in maps
Some places exert a morbid attraction on the terminally disenchanted – like light pole 69 on the Golden Gate Bridge
The southern terminus of the Iron Curtain could have been the starting point of World War III
The Zeno Brothers invented a bunch of islands north of Scotland that turned out to have remarkable staying power on maps
Had Franz Ferdinand not been assassinated in Sarajevo, he might have pushed through this plan, and the empire might have survived
Suomi-Neito is a distant, but weirdly parallel echo of ‘Paula’, the personification of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state (discussed in #471). Female like most other anthropomorphic representations of geographic entities (1), […]
An April Fool’s prank that had lots of Guardian readers fooled – except those who knew their typography.
What if New York had somehow managed to remain New Amsterdam?
North Korea is the Dark Side of the peninsula, literally.
Castro gifted the island to East Germany. They never gave it back. So whose is it now?
Is the Land of Oz located on a retrograde planet?
That time the ape-man found an entire Roman province in a hidden valley
Ironically, the original name for the desert planet is Berber for ‘water springs’
Double taxation without representation? No wonder this grey area declared its independence.