40 Maps To Expand Your Knowledge Of The World We Live In (New Pics)

This makes me happy! Let's hope it is diverse plantation though, and not monoculture production forest.

This is beautiful. A globe makes a great feature in any house, and you will refer to it more than you think. But this one is gorgeous.

Due to the rotation of the earth and the effects on air and (lesser) water currents, they can't. And most likely the form of the earth is preventing this, too. The earth is not a perfect sphere. If one hurricane does, we are in serious trouble, because the earth axis has tilted. Also interesting: There by far more in number and intensity over the Asian islands than in US. Maybe it is the type of news we get, but the Asian storms seem to have less impact on buildings and people than the US ones?

Wish it was actually readable

It's great something good came of the Iron Curtain.

I am a land surveyor and trained to use the basic tools, but it still always amazes me how well these people did back then.

Finland built a lighthouse, not realising it was on the Swedish side. This new border was drawn up to allow the lighthouse to be Finnish, and the amount of land held be each country to remain the same.

This just made me put on the Dropkick Murphys.

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Android is the way forward. Apple tried to make a monopoly and failed due to greed.

come on guys what did Sudan do

Something about hitting enormous mountains and then a 4000 m high plateau tends to change the local climate a wee bit

This is not far off the voting map for the 2020 election.

Introducing the All New and Improved Zealand (with 15% more zeal!)!

From top left: Canada, UK, Germany, Japan - South Africa, Philippines, [Edit: Australia], New Zealand. I too had my doubts, e.g. Berlin and Munich (in Germany) should be dots, however, these are huge cities in areas of otherwise very low population, so depending how this was calculated, could be still correct.

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew… 🤘🏻😎

I'm shocked you can see England lol

Srsly. But wouldn't that make France Minas Tirith?

Pretty sure the US is actually in 1950

Yeah, um... update pending.

so my understanding is the 2nd tallest tower of density on Maui (directly to the right of the word Hawaii) is Lahaina. this tragedy is just going to worsen as they find more and more dead. There's a thousand missing and I wouldn't be surprised if at least half are gone.

I’m amidst the little mound farthest right & somewhat south. Our district is 500 square miles or slightly smaller than the island of Kauai. Our population is in the mid-30,000s and (for better or worse) we’re the fastest growing district of Hawai’i. We’re where Tūtu Pele is creating new earth every day. - https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/05/puna-is-the-fastest-growing-place-in-hawaii-but-it-comes-with-a-catch/

Send love to Hawaii❤❤❤

what is up with the middle of Hawaii?!

Our local government annoys me about this, beautiful wide road and they started to remove trees claiming they were damaged etc, didn't replace a single one, the houses etc are far away too from them

The only important map.

He later took over as Napoleon III, the one with the hat and the itchy chest was Napoleon I (1769 - 1821). Napoleon III achieved a lot of purposeful results for the better of the country, and didn't want to start a war but the general public wanted him to.

Should be illegal in every country.

Not one but two Australias! I wonder which one I'm living in? Or are there two of me? lol

I was surprised that no English city is on this map... thinking about Oxford and its university. But looking it up: Oxford University was founded in 1096.

War crime.

Nice to the see the UK at the bottom of a positive one for a change! I'd love to see a map like this for the last 5-6 decades and see if all countries have seen a decline and if any have seen an increase.

The "bigbladed" (bigedged) tsunami... *shudders* Pretty clear symbolism that it cut everything it hit down. (Eggen is the sharp side of the blade. Stor means big.)

Even some of the grey marked countries have a wineproduktion - it's just smaller than 2 million hectoliters per year ;-)

If we had a map of Canada it would just be white. Our public transport even in the major cities are c**p

What the heck

all those chocolate bandits in Belgium

Not nearly enough red on that map.

My favorite country

Compare the level of gun ownership in the Nordic countries with mass shootings. And then look the numbers for the USA.

Should be listed Busiest _Container_ Ports as they're listed by "twenty-foot equivalent unit" which begs to question, why the heck. By tonnage the list would be: Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Algeciras, Marseille, Valencia, Bergen, Trieste and LeHavre

What's the shortened name for someone from the UK?

Yea... Sure... Diagnosed maybe. In poland, our s****y gov is killing psychological care. ***** ***

Need update. Germany just turned off last nuclear plant (bad idea)

I love how the mighty Roman Empire invaded and conquered England and Wales, but when they got to Scotland, they were like 'F**k this, they're trouble, we'll just build a big wall.' As an Englishman, I can confirm that the Scots are hard bastards. Love them.

Oh you stupid human beings.

Soil quality for what?