The map above shows just how big the United States is or just how big the Mediterranean Sea is, depending on your perspective.
And it should not be confused with the existing American Mediterranean Sea which is the the combined water body of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
If you look closely you’ll see that the map author has gone out of their way to funny details such as the Confederate Sea, The Plains sea, Sea of Illinois, Great Salt Islands, Straits of Pismo, East and West Dakota and many more.
For a full explanation, you can read Bret’s post on The Arcadian Ideal.
You can learn more about the Mediterranean from the following books:
- The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook
- Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans
- The Climate of the Mediterranean Region: From the Past to the Future
- Countries of the Mediterranean Classic Map
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Bret Drager says
Hi Brilliant Maps, I hate that my creation was coopted by this reddit user. Apparently, he saw my posting on imgur or my tumblr page, Arcadian Ideal. there is a lot of creativity and thought that went into this and it has been reduced to a clipped image and credited to this reddit poster who had nothing to do with it. You aren’t the only one to do this, but that doesn’t make it any better. At the very least, I would appreciate changing the credit to ‘map created by Bret Drager’. You can verify this at http://arcadianideal.tumblr.com/post/136009812011/arcadianideal-the-mediterranean-sea-of . There is also a explanation (some say tl;dr) of how it came about.
Brilliant Maps says
Sorry about that. Have now updated the credits accordingly.
Bret Drager says
Thanks for quickly taking care of this. I have been enjoying your site for quite a long time.
Brilliant Maps says
No problem, at all. Always want to give full credit to those who’ve made the maps we feature. Also, very glad you like the site.
Bret Drager says
Now my map has been posted at kottke.org and a map a day without my knowledge. please correct the post. Bret Drager
Brilliant Maps says
Have updated the credits.
Evan Taylor says
The Black Sea isn’t a part of the Mediterranean Sea, nor is the sea of Azov.
jelroy says
Have you ever heard of the Strait of Bosporus? It connects them, therefore the Black Sea, and therefore the Sea of Azov, are part of the Mediterranean Sea system.
Bill says
You don’t have to be a climate expert to know that the Rockies, High Plains, Ozarks and Appalachian Mountains would be under water while the lower elevation areas
(including swamps of Louisiana) north and south of them would stay dry!
David Preston says
This is great, thanks.
I was wondering if another version could be made showing the Mediterranean sea bordering countries. That would help us all understand how close together and small the European and Mediterranean and Baltic countries are.
Arcadia Berger says
This reminds me of Clarence Streit’s verbal mapping of Europe onto North America in his gloriously ambitious and charmingly naive book “Union NOW” (which proposed that all democratic nations form a federal union to oppose the Axis immediately, the USSR eventually and gently help the colonized countries toward democracy once those little issues had been dealt with).
Starting from Ireland in Newfoundland and Portugal in Florida, he worked his way to Russia sprawling from the Rockies to Alaska.