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
Easy pal. We have boats...how long can you tread water ;)
Load More Replies...65m max : https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/environnement/voici-quoi-ressemblerait-le-monde-si-la-glace-continentale-venait-fondre (. in french but the maps are better :)
Yeah, that's what bothered me about the movie Waterworld. There isn't enough water on the planet to sink that much land.
Load More Replies...Erm. I live at 1839.468 m above sea level now. 480 meters wouldn't put it under water like this map shows.
Tasmiania has a few tall mountains (well, tall by Australian standards). Cradle mountain is 1545 m, so it will still be over 1000 m if sea levels rise 480 m.
Load More Replies...Just because: if every ice shelf collapsed and every bit of sea ice melted, the sea-level rise would be 0 meters. If the main Antarctic glaciers melted, the sea level would rise 190m... but most of that would take a temperature rise of 100 degrees.
There isn't enough water on the planet, even if all the ice is gonna melt.
Nothing to stop an icy comet or comets adding some more water.
Load More Replies...Australia.. Explained To Americans
I get Melbourne being NY-ish & Sydney-Brisbane as California. But how is Canberra similar to Jersey?
Fun Fact: Cyprus Is Just A More Aerodynamic Version Of The USA
Nobody Is Talking About This
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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