Here’s a treat for all you cruciverbally obsessed Hungarian cartophiles out there: a Magyarophone crossword in the shape of Old Hungary, i.e. the other half of the Austrian-led Double Monarchy […]
Not very correct cartographically, but mildly funny.
“A popular game show in which contestants need to answer trivia questions on a variety of topics that has been running on US tv for nearly 45 years, and has […]
Fast food chains generally don’t have a good rep when it comes to healthy, eco-conscious dining. There is some re-branding going on, though, like at McDonald’s, which is moving heaven […]
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 […]
Travellers, discoverers and cartographers have named the world around us so that we might find our way in it. The purpose of a place name, therefore, is to be as […]
The calls of this bird vary regionally, as do the names people give them
The short-lived state "belongs more to the obsessions of bourgeois France than to the politics of South America"
An April Fool's prank that had lots of Guardian readers fooled - except those who knew their typography.
Is the Line evidence that Northern culture is advancing deeper into the South?
If most maps are like meat and potatoes, these are like fruit and dessert
Satellite navigation.... decades before the first satellite
n “(…) for the last two years, I’ve been taking pictures of Britain on world maps,” writes Ben Terrett, graphic designer and blogger at Noisy Decent Graphics. Well, not too bad, if that’s […]
This map, showing the surface and population of selected world cities, is outdated by over two decades. It was published in the Dallas Morning News on 9 June 1983, since […]
n nn According to Barack Obama, “there are no blue states, no red states, only the United States of America”. That is the rhetoric one should expect from a president-elect, […]
nn nn Rarely is the question asked: What if Italy had won the Second World War? The more frequently asked question is: What if Germany had won the war? Italy […]
n The constellations visible in the northern hemisphere, including the twelve signs of the Zodiac, owe their names to the Babylonians and the Greeks. Only during the last few hundred […]
n A – “Now you’re thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don’t. I think that’s Old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center […]
For such a small country, Liechtenstein sure has a lot of exclaves (or was that enclaves?)
nn PERTINI DANCE (by S.C.O.R.T.A., 1984) n “What a superstar to be, is the best you can see. n Yes this is a brave man, oh. The first Italian man, […]
