Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above is another one from Matt Shirley showing The Most Famous Person From Each State Named After A Colour. If you like these sorts of maps you should check out his book: A Visual Learner’s Guide to Being a Grown-Up.
Here’s a full list with who they are:
The map above shows an image associated with a strange law in each European country. Here’s a full list including some other strange laws in each country:
Here’s a bit more about them:
The Berlin Conference ran from 15 November 1884 to 26 February 1885. Fourteen states sent delegates: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Not one African was in the room.
The map above was created in 1943 by a young Army Captain named Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) to educate American servicemen about the dangers of malaria. Titled This is Ann . . . She drinks blood! you can see his very unique illustrations for the mosquitos.
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Yet their eventual fates were very different. While Germany was split into communist East Germany and capitalist West Germany in 1949, Austria remained a single country and regained its full independence in 1955.
What would the world look like if every empire were the only land on Earth? In these maps, everything an empire controlled is shown as satellite imagery and everything else has been flooded.
For the 13 country maps we’ve included all the land each country ever controlled, even if it didn’t hold it all at the same time.
Britain’s map shows the original Thirteen Colonies and India, although it never ruled both at once.
The video above builds up the world based on countries’ ages from the oldest to the youngest. Below you can find the full list with the rational:
Here is the full list:
Look at the map above and see if you can figure out which square each of the following 51 cities are in.
This is the world version of our Can You Find These 26 US Cities? post. Many of these cities sit close to a grid line, so look carefully.