Chicago would have been in the state of Assenisipia, north of the state of Illinoia
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In George Orwell’s dystopian novel ‘1984’, the world is ruled by three superstates. Unfortunately, there’s not much ‘super’ to these states except their size.
This map beautifully captures the changeable course of the Big River
Praise the Lord and pass the dictionary!
A curious map from Alfred Russel Wallace, the father of biogeography
To spare the feelings of the good people of his hometown, Sinclair Lewis invented a fictional state as the setting for his novels
Yes, but are they christianised Turks, or turkified Bulgars?
Amikejo was located in Neutral Moresnet, a geopolitical anomaly that managed to survive for a whole century after the Congress of Vienna.
A treasure map of the voyage to sobriety
“If you have to ask for slaw on a hot dog, it’s not a true West Virginia hot dog”
This crazy scheme would have restored the prehistoric land bridge between the UK and the Continent
Despite centuries of Anglo-French tension, Stratford’s favourite son is as popular in Paris as he is in London
For such a small country, Liechtenstein sure has a lot of exclaves (or was that enclaves?)
When the invasion comes, head for the mountains. Sorry, flatlanders!
The original map of Treasure Island was lost – if it still exists, it must surely be worth a fortune now…
Did this far-out story of lizards below LA father the conspiracy theory of world-ruling reptilians?
If the principle of frontage would be universally applied, so could the U.S., Nigeria, Bangladesh – and even Greenland
Plato’s fabled continent, as depicted by Kircher in the 17th century, looks a bit familiar…
According to Mercator, the North Pole was marked by a giant black magnetic rock
A 1940 map of a fictional continent slightly resembling South America, symbolising different aspects of the new and exciting world of plastics
On June 3, almost 9 months after the first post on September 10 last year, the hit counter on strangemaps went up to 1 million. Today, a bit over a […]
An amazing feat of engineering, but at the cost of much blood and treasure
The Jews have another Israel. It’s in Siberia – and it was their first official home.
n There’s some corner of an English field that is forever Australia. n This almost century-old chalk map of Oz, carved into a Wiltshire hillside, seems to validate the above […]
Leopold Kohr, who championed the principle ‘small is beautiful’, also applied it to geopolitics
Intangible and invisible, but omnipresent: that combination of qualities used to describe only God (or the sense of dread left by His absence). Now it also applies to cyberspace. Any […]
It might have snuffed out Secession with minimal loss of life; but Lincoln chose both the blockade and an invasion