40 Unusual And Fascinating Maps That Might Change Your Perspective On The World (New Pics)

I think I can see a faind line at the end of the Ni g er (Oh FFS Bored Panda)

Not necessarily. Africa's rivers are not navigable. There are a few cities at the mouths of rivers, notably Cairo at the Nile and Kinshasa and Brazzaville at the Congo. The rest of those are just where the major cities are - in East Africa it's around Kenya and Uganda, there's another set of bright lights around Harare, then further south we have Johannesburg and Cape Town. None of those gave major rivers. In West Africa the densest areas are around Nigeria/Ghana.

wow i didnt look at it that way! i think the the black part is the sahara so it probably would.... im off to google maps!

looks like theres a light up around lake victoria, so i guess so!

I believe so, there seems to be a large population density near the east African lakes and the N***r river. Edit, was just speaking about the river in Nigeria and the country North of it.

It is a studied fact in anthropology that people tend to live near water sources. Most of the world's cities are near, or surround, major rivers.

Well, I can spot Lake Victoria and Lake Malawi. Also you can clearly see the deserts Sahara and Namib.

Yes, the dark circle mid right surrounded by light is Lake Victoria

look at the light up around lake tanganyika and lake victoria

There's a discernible line where the Congo is. The Nile stands out because everything around it is very dark.

I stared into the void, and it stared back.

Correct.

No, because he total supply of money is the same, just redistributed

Canada doesn’t get screwed. This shows that Canada, like australia and New Zealand actually have good lives. We’d be worse off if world wealth was redistributed because we’d have to give up some of our hard earned wages and first world living conditions

Wether we had drones or not is on a need to know basis.

It's a vert flat country, just need a good step ladder really.

Was the original image taken at 1pm yesterday perhaps?

Drone? Lol you mean satellite?

estimation and maths maybe?

Very fast painter and a catapult

Cartography has been a thing for a very long time.

I love magic!

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Swallows.

Underrated comment hahaha

drone shot?! And 208 people like this?! jeez

Poor John, sent up in a balloon, never to be seen again.

I was thinking the same thing

It's a satellite photo, dummy.

people don't seem to care about how we leave the planet to future generations, they only care about what it costs them now...

I'm afraid so. But most people still don't want to see the future we are heading for.

Abel Tasman to be exactly, and I live in old Zeeland

Uh, no, pretty sure it's named after a Looney Tunes character

yeah this is not true. its actually from the latin "Terra Australis" which means "southern land" - but Australia was actually called New Holland originally and was named that by Abel Tasman.

Folks Amsterdude made a joke! This is not true.

Wow!

??? https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-did-australia-get-its-name.html

Volendam, one of the villages in this inbreed circle, is more like a catholic island in a protestant sea. Most of the 21.000 people are part of only seven families, and there use to be a genetic disease that only existed in the village which causes horrible mental and physical disabilities that result in a very young dead. Luckily, thanks to modern medical science and an app, the disease is as good as extinct. (The disease in Urk, that Petra schaap spoke of, is a bone disease where the bones grows to fast and thick)

everyone on former islands are related. Theres even one island (I think its Urk) that has their own genetic desease.

Volendam and Urk, they have their own inbred diseases.

We f****d. Up.

We have our bible belt and those people chose to stay with there own church community. ("twee religies op een kussen, daar slaapt de duivel tussen" translates to "two religions on a pillow, the devil sleeps between them") So there is some inbreed. Now there are very small very religious communities outside the belt (they won´t mix).

Moved to West Virginia

Arrow. My bad..