You can look at the world from a lot of different perspectives, and maps are excellent tools that reflect this diversity of viewpoints.
Each cartographer chooses the story they want to tell, highlighting elements of geography, history, economy, and other areas to paint their own version of our planet.
Maybe it details countries and their borders, maybe it shows the spread of religions, or maybe it reveals the most popular soda drink in every region.
The social media project 'Terrible Maps' shares a whimsical and sometimes absurd approach to mapmaking, and it's full of funny takes you don't normally see in geography textbooks. Continue scrolling to see our hand-picked favorites!
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Detailed Doggo Map
A Map Of Ancient Grease
A Map Of Europe Drawn From Memory
Oklahoma If It Was Used To Express Feelings
A World Map Centered On Antarctica
Australia vs. Austria, Just For Clarity
How Long Is Chile
Foutland
Being A Bad Neighbour
The reason why the border is shaped that way is the path of a river. That’s exactly the same reason why the power plant was built in this place (cooling water needed). And this nuclear power plant produces electricity for Belgium (and Luxembourg, and Germany). I guess you’d have to be an ignorant idiot to call that being a crappy neighbour.
Yolklahoma
Fatalities From Texting And Driving In 1960
As An Austrian: So Good
A Map Of The Earth After A Sea Level Rise Of 480m... Just Because
Australia.. Explained To Americans
I get Melbourne being NY-ish & Sydney-Brisbane as California. But how is Canberra similar to Jersey?
Jersey is full of suburban planned towns and Canberra is a suburban planned town.
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I object to Ohio being called boring. Wait, never mind.
Not sure how QLD gets Alabama. Half the state is practically desert, a sizeable chunk is basically tropical rainforest and a lot of the south is more like temperate forest.
So half of the rest of the US doesn't believe in Oregon and the rest think people from there have got two heads?
Western Australia is more like Perth is that town from Friday night lights and the rest of WA is too far away from anything
My reaction when I visited Perth was that it was Iowa with an ocean
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I'm from Portland, Oregon and last year my Spotify Wrapped matched me with Malborne. It makes perfect sense. Malborne is a lovely sister city to my own.
Yeah we are definitely fancier than the rest of Queensland that’s for sure
I think the creators of this map find consonants the only thing that's interesting. Ohio, Iowa and Idaho are all boring? There's nothing they have in common but a lack of consonants. I mean, Idaho is the one state of the union that's predominantly covered by gorgeous mountains. (Colorado and Wyoming have more miles of flat, arid plains than of mountains!)
Fun Fact: Cyprus Is Just A More Aerodynamic Version Of The USA
Egypt Is Smaller Than The United States, Russia And China Combined
Map Of All The Churches In Poland
Olive Oil Europe vs. Butter Europe
Map Of European Countries Playing Football
It looks more like Europe is about to step on a bleached turd.
30 People Drew A Map Of The World From Memory. The Results Were Merged
Map Of Europe But With The Wrong Font Size
Minimalistic World Map
A Map Of Poland's Subways
Most Popular Soda In Every European Country. The Scots Won't Be Happy With This
US States But The First Letter Is Missing
A Map Of Europe With The Naughty Bits Censored
Countries That Bill Gates Is Richer Than Are Marked With A Picture Of Bill Gates Smiling
Most Popular Words In Online Dating Profiles, By State
A Map Of The World Without Islands
After the next Brexit, when Britain voted to leave both UN and the planet.
Note: this post originally had 53 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
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