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21 Of The Saddest Places On Earth From Instagram’s sadtopographies

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 9 Comments

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Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, Washington

Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, Washington

If you’re not following @sadtopographies on Instagram, you should. The account shows the places with saddest and most depressing names on earth.

Examples include everything from Cape Disappointment to Point No Point to Sad Road. And while Americans and Australians are usually thought to have sunny dispositions they also have a lot of unfortunate place names.

21 of our favourites are included below:

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Filed Under: Other Tagged With: humour

Kiribati & Interesting Facts About Its Geographic Anomalies

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 2 Comments

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Kiribati is the only nation in all 4 hemispheres of the world

Map created by reddit user evening_raga

Kiribati is one of those countries you never hear anything about yet has some very unique and interesting geographic anomalies. These 3 maps created by reddit user evening_raga show a few facts about this overlooked part of the world.

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Major European Cities On A Map Of Texas

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 6 Comments

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Major European Cities On A Map Of Texas

Map created by reddit user daysleeperrr

The map above shows the relative position of major European cities if they were suddenly moved to Texas. Depending on your point of view, it either shows that Texas is really big or Europe is very small.

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Pluto vs Alaska Size Comparison

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 6 Comments

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Pluto-vs-Alaska

Map created by Alaska Climate Info

With the New Horizons probe putting Pluto back in the news, just how big is it?

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Counterintuitive Comparison Of Relative Population Latitudes Of US, Canada & Europe

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 8 Comments

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population-latitude

Map created by David Taylor at prooffreader.com

The map above shows a rather surprising and counterintuitive fact, Europe’s population is not only relatively further north than America’s, but even further north than Canada’s!

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Map Projections & What They Say About You

Last Updated: March 23, 2026 15 Comments

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xkcd_map_projections

Comic by Randall Munroe at XKCD
Most people go through life perfectly happy in the knowledge that the real earth looks like it does on a standard Mercator projection map. Cartographers, map nerds and those that have seen this scene from the West Wing know that this is not really the case.

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Tourists Vs Locals: 20 Cities Based On Where People Take Photos

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 15 Comments

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London tourists vs locals

London: Locals and Tourists by Eric Fischer

Tourists and locals experience cities in strikingly different ways. For example, in London most tourists will visit Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Oxford Street, etc. but will probably not end up visiting East Croydon, Hendon, Dagenham or any of the other parts of London outside of Zone 1.

Conversely, Londoners can go years without ever visiting the tourist traps of central London. To see just how different these two worlds are, have a look at the map of London above based on where people take photos.

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The World’s Population Could Comfortably Fit Within London’s M25

Last Updated: December 16, 2025 9 Comments

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World population M25

Map and math by reddit user 1337spb
With newly released figures showing that net immigration to the UK increased to a near record 318,000 people last year, it may seem to some that the UK is overcrowded.

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How To Say The Names of Arabic Speaking Countries in Arabic (with Romanizations)

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 7 Comments

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Names of Arabic Speaking Countries in Arabic

Map by reddit user Pinuzzo

The map above shows the names of Arabic speaking countries in Arabic with romanizations to help those who don’t actually speak Arabic. Interestingly, most are quite different from the English name for the country.

Reddit user Pinuzzo, who created the map, explains that:

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If Frodo & Sam Had Google Maps Of Middle Earth

Last Updated: May 21, 2026 14 Comments

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Frodo Google maps

Created by Mark Crosby, found via reddit
If Sam and Frodo had had this Google Map of Middle Earth, their journey would likely have been a lot easier than the one in the Lord of the Rings. Created by Mark Crosby the map has all sorts of wonderful additions.

For example:

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