40 Unusual And Fascinating Maps That Might Teach You Something New About Our World (New Pics)

In case you're wondering, because I looked it up immediately when I had learned about it: It's manmade, was made in 1991, is 116 meters long, and a 1:10,000 scale of Finland! The construction engineer was Esko Sääskilahti. It was going to be the Centerpoint of a tourist village, but that part was never completed. The lake took a week to excavate. Hope you enjoyed learning some more! :-)

That's shockingly precise, considering the year of production.

that's a lot of castles. I didnt realise there were that many.

Yay, Czechoslovakia!

Probably 'counties', not countries. Edit 5 hours later to add: hmm, they changed the title from 'countries' to 'counties' so this comment now confusing, "huh?".

26% of the Netherlands should be under sea level.

Oops Turkey

Is this a map-?

That's alarming at very least

The fact that more than one person thought it was in the UK 😂😂😅

Not yet...

Too many :(

Even underwater. That's impressive.

YEEEEEEEESSS!!! THX ITALY FOR FINDING ME ATRACTIVE

The US government is definitely flawed

"Far beyond the ice and snow The voyage carries on For blood and gold, we sold our souls Redemption lies at Magnetic North"

Greece looks so complicated

I know strip malls and strip clubs are VERY different things, but I still can't help reading them the same when I see them together...

borders are so lame.

in other words, poverty -> bad air

Why is everybody walking away from Poland? Did Poland say anything controversial again?

France 😂

Am I the only one who googled for "Australian football" and "Gaelic football"? :)))

That's cause the housing market is crazy, prices are sky high.

Why not word it as it should be - EU: Respondents who think RAPING their partner should be legal. I'm horrified by the 2% in UK let alone the disgustingly high % elsewhere.

I love how Finland is like "Perkele, absolutely no school uniforms in our place!"

this is somewhat misleading... the blue is game reserves. There would be near-zero lions left without game reserves.

We in Germany have 32% of our land mass covered in forests

this is why there needs to be no veto powers in the UN.

In my country (South Africa) we have terrible crime rates. Some say bringing the death penalty back would reduce it but Europe is a good example that that would not be the case.

so, places where people want independence?

Xi is watching you.

To be honest, i expected more :))))

I'd rather the US have this distribution than Russia or China....

Only the USA has the name " America" as part of their country name. Similarly to South Korean, generally speaking, no one says 'my parents are South Korean'. It's just 'my parents are Korean'. No one says 'I am United States of American's, it's just 'American'.

Is guyana excluded because of language?

Thank you. I might be ignorant as a South African but I did not know the difference between these.

What is a day name?

So. Canada to Japan to UK to Canada. Repeat endlessly.

That's a lot of purple... *Nervously laughs in South African*

Decorative highway interchange *snort*

I was reading the names In black and thought what the hell are they naming their children

What if we just offered up Florida?

I am from India and it is severely huge... many from UP migrate because guess what, the fertile land cannot support everyone on farming and limited industries..

Maybe I'm bad at reading maps, but shouldn't "The West" be called "The South"?

Look at all the countries bordering Russia who voted "please don't do us next"

This is relatively easy to explain. BRICS (Brazil, China, India, South Africa) doesn't like america policing the world, and so, it in general opposes american motions just to annoy the americans. Obviously, the islamic-majority countries also think the rest of the world should let them persist with islamic law. So they're also red/yellow. Hence, Green is just a symbol of whoever is politically allied to america.

That’s amazing progress! Keep up the good work.