Football - yes, we mean soccer - divides the British capital into a medieval-looking map of invisible territories, frontlines and enclaves.
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Did a cheeky Ozzy intern change this map as a nod to his separatist mates back home?
BY JASON SILVA “Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.” –Alphonse de Lamartine, French romantic poet. PART I: DREAMING WITH […]
Metropolis, Illinois, a tiny town with a grand name, is a distant echo of this area's planned greatness
Last week, Big Think blogger Frank Jacobs featured “The United States of Movies,” on his blog Strange Maps. The map, originally posted Reddit, assigned a movie to every U.S. state […]
The continent would be ruled by ten neat little empires.
China moves to Russia and India takes over Canada. The Swiss get Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi India. And the U.S.? It stays where it is.
Powell's water-based states, or How the West wasn't won
Google any word, and the search engine will suggest a longer phrase, based on the popularity of current searches starting with the same word. This so-called autocomplete function (1) is, […]
This diagram—not technically a map, but strange all the same—shows the relationship between European countries and the supranational institutions like the EU that govern their interactions.
A peculiar reversal of cartography's 'original sin'
A series of infographics comparing the two countries puts their growing rivalry into perspective.
Large-scale drainage projects were popular in the early 20th century - but most came to nothing.
These maps can open the doors to some very dark powers
Libyan strongman Muammar Gadaffi has it in for peace-loving Switzerland. He says he’d destroy the country if he had atomic weapons. But since he doesn’t have them, he advocates wiping […]
Do you have to be religious to see a face in burnt toast? Probably not, but believers are more likely to attribute such a face to Jesus (1). Believer in […]
5,000,000 Hits n Thirty hits – that’s how many this blog accumulated for the whole of September 2006, the first month of its existence. The numbers for October were a bit better – […]
This blog reached its 10 millionth hit last Tuesday. That is amazing. I’m speechless. Well, almost: n Thanks to all visitors, casual and regular, for helping Strange Maps reach that […]
Don't think of it as the smallest county, but as a huge island.
Mysterious in origin, but at least they look pretty on a map
The meme that captured the 2004 post-election blues.
He barely made it to the other side's penalty box
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at”
"Who would not pity the poet who has to write and make his rhymes about some bold Sir Francis Drake’s brave journey round the tetrahedron?"
n n The Mighty Barrister alerted me to a post on the blog of the Book Design Review by Joseph Sullivan of Chicago, listing his favourite book covers of 2007. […]
Big nations or small ones: each gets a same-sized square on this map
A less well-known boundary than America's Continental Divide