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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.
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, […]
Powell’s water-based states, or How the West wasn’t won
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 series of infographics comparing the two countries puts their growing rivalry into perspective.
A peculiar reversal of cartography’s ‘original sin’
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mysterious in origin, but at least they look pretty on a map
Don’t think of it as the smallest county, but as a huge island.
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”
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. […]
“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?”
Big nations or small ones: each gets a same-sized square on this map
A less well-known boundary than America’s Continental Divide
A tilt in the usual orientation shows Moscow in a much more threatening perspective
The map of the Bay Area has been in your hands all along
Nobody knows why a map of Pinsonia was included in an otherwise accurate atlas
Dear all, n Blog posts of the “I am sorry I haven’t been posting any messages of late” kind are annoying and redundant, a bit like going round someone’s house […]