35 Unusual Maps That Might Change How You See The World, As Shared In This Online Account

Ok, that is a fun one! 🤣

Showing that it is indeed possible for many different nations to cooperate for the good.

In Portugal there´s a popular saying that goes " Todas as estradas vão dar a Roma" (every road leads to rome)) which is used to say that no matter wtv you do, you´ll end up in the same place. The roots of that popular proverb (?) are from this time.

That was one hell of a kidney stone Geoff passed.

ok ok that made me laugh

I remember doing Technical Drawing in high school, such a lost art now.

New York isn't that cold!

Finland has no special irritating sentence. It’s the intention of speaking to us that does the trick.

Aargh! Giant elephant!

Come on guys, only 22 left, we can do it! Lets be the first to complete the whole set!

I wish there was a key to see how many people each height equates to

Or go away from Rome.

This is really lovely. Too bad their habitat is being destroyed daily.

are the wolves yellow or green?

Big Sim City players there.

I feel like that would make for one hell of a coach/train journey.

but yet the standard of living is lower in the US. I woudl rather have lower income than go bankrupt after a cancer diagnosis or be one of the 56% of homeless people who have full time jobs. -American living abroad

If you are born in France and live there until 18, you are automatically French.

I did not know. I am a bit flabberghasted.

Imagine how much more habitable Australia would become if we did this. #MovetheMed.

Not true! In today Romania was the Dacian language, which was Not Slavic and then it was combined with Latin -> Romanian language. It is a big part of the Eastern Europe!

I like this, I want this as a poster.

I've never been to Italy, but now I believe it's better to not go, since the rest of the world is already there.

I’m going to start calling Ferraris “Smiths” and nobody will understand but me

How is the UK so high? All we do is moan?

Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of that word is Greek. -Gus Portokalos

Orhan Pamuk ❤❤❤

This isn't the middle east though, this is east mediterranean

This is country perspective based. Didn't see squat about western tragedies or news when living in China, found out about them from western sources. My relatives in Malaysia don't hear any either unless we tell them; get lots of "omg world is inbdanger!" stuff when it's in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, India, China, Thailand, or Vietnam though. Lots about coups and stuff in Thailand and Myanmar get reported there as terrible for the world.

Why isn’t russia included.

Walk it? Think I'd be tempted to thumb a lift, at least part of the way.

So everyone went to pretty much the same places? (Except looks like the Dutch weren't that much interested in North America)

In Czechia, trdlo is just a tourist thing that became popular only very recently. A more traditional dessert would be kolache

Canada was like “nope” to the US

I think this is an old map. From the Irish perspective at least. Irish used to want to go to USA but now it seems the popular places are, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

"What happened to the Earth?" "I dropped it, sorry!"

74% for Sweden ^^

What is the logic of covering minority languages in some places but not in others?

this omits, centers of learning that spread trough middle and east Asia, places like the "house of wisdom" in Bagdad, or the centers of study in India By the 900s. of course they are not exactly universities, but very close...by the way, more literature was lost when the Mongols burned Bagdad, that when the library of Alexandria was destroyed

I love the basques. Eveybody is like "Jon, juan, ioan, Jean" and they are like "Ganiz" xD You guys are the best

Mmm it's not really a radius like that. It's more about the countries: Spain and France would be considered good, Greece and Portugal ok, Austria and Germany: potatoes, the rest: not good for consumption. (Obviously joking, guys)

What was the checkered flag?

Nambia got roasted hard.

The UK is much the same following the Beeching cuts of the 1950s/60s.

As a German I feel ashamed that Bild took the number 1 spot

Well, at least something good came out of the post war division...

i knew that Chile was long, but I ignored the size of Peru!

It's too small.

I'm not going to comment on the obvious, but there's no way in hell that there are only one perching species in North America.

What's that one german state?

What is going on in Spain? Such a big difference!

Not only does France share a border with Brazil, it still has islands west of Newfoundland, Canada. It's probably the most expansive country on the planet! (look up St Pierre and Miquelon if you want to spend some Euros but not cross the Atlantic).

Léo Ferré was famous for his anarchist and left-wing ideas. That he holds the record of the best-selling musical act in the casino Principalty of Monaco is pretty ironic.

Australia had a war with Emus' twice... and lost

"I understand only railway station" in German comes from WWI, when soldiers just wanted to go home so they always understood "Bahnhof" (railway station), from where the trains would go home ...

And yet said minority has an enormous influence in politics.

Us in Maine all alone with our potatoes

Brazilians won't live without beaches, we'll all invade Antarctica!

I wonder why Frida is big in Chad. Edit: Apparently she appeared on a postage stamp in Chad in 2017, but that doesn't really help me.

Googling Ibn Battuta now...

the good old days....

What?! No Garbage?

What about pop/soda/coke?

The cats make me happy.

U sure the Simpsons never visited Germany?

That's amazing I didn't realise they were that small. Nowadays we'd call these towns. Coming from Gauteng, South Africa, with about 13m people.