Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
One of our most popular maps is Pangaea With Current International Borders.
However, while it’s without a doubt an amazing map, many users have commented that they wished that you could see the whole world.
Fortunately, Massimo Pietrobon via Tomas Slavkovsky from Melown, has done just that, creating a fully interactive Pangaea map with modern international borders that allows you to explore the whole earth.
You can have a play around with it below:
The map above shows what the borders of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa might look like if they were based on the dominant Y-DNA haplogroup rather than ethnicity and/or any other political considerations.
The map above shows what a “Globe” of the Earth would look like if the Earth was flat.
Most people accept that maps use a variety of projection techniques to render the 3D Earth onto a 2D plane. And that globes show us what the Earth really looks like.
However, flat Earth societies don’t buy this whole 3D/2D divide and believe (seriously or not) that the Earth is flat.
The map above shows how big Luxembourg is compared to Singapore, Andorra, Malta, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco, and the Vatican.
The interactive map from flightradar24 above shows live flight locations for commercial civilian aircraft around the world.
When you zoom in on Syria you can see how airlines choose route their planes to avoid all Syrian and most Iraqi airspace.
The map above shows the patchwork of kingdoms, principalities, bishoprics, duchies, republics, cities, sultanates, etc. in and around Europe in 1500 CE/AD.
The map above shows the incredibly strange and complex border between Belgium and the Netherlands at Baarle-Hertog (Belgium) / Baarle-Nassau (Netherlands).
The map above shows how Google.co.in shows India’s borders compared to how Google.com shows them.
The map above is an Isochrone map which shows how long it would have taken someone to travel from Rome to the farthest reaches of the Roman Empire at its peak (roughly 200 CE/AD).
Travelling within the core of the Empire could have be done in under a week, but travelling all the way to the fringes would have taken someone more than a month.
The map above, titled An Entirely New & Accurate Survey Of The County Of Kent, With Part Of The County Of Essex was created by William Mudge in 1801 and is regarded at the first official Ordnance Survey map.