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Ukraine Between Two Octobers (2012-2025)

Last Updated: December 2, 2025 1 Comment

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Ukraine Between Two Octobers (2012-2025)

Map credit @gontsa

The map above shows Ukraine 13 years part. From the map text:

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Territorial Changes In The Ukraine War Compared To The Western Front In WW1

Last Updated: October 31, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Territorial Changes In The Ukraine War Compared To The Western Front In WW1

Map created by reddit user 4g3nt58

The map above makes a rather interesting comparison that between how much territory has been lost in Ukraine War from January 2024 to November 2025, compared to that lost on the Western Front In WW1 from January 1915 to November 1916.

More about the map below:

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Map Of The 18,000 Asteroids In The Solar System

Last Updated: October 13, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Map Of The 18,000 Astroids In The Solar System

Map created by EleanorLutz
The map above shows the orbital paths of about 18,000 asteroids, comets, and planets in the solar system, everything larger than 10km in diameter is included.

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Neo-Tokyo (from Akira) vs Real-Life Tokyo In 2019

Last Updated: October 9, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Neo-Tokyo (from Akira) vs Real-Life Tokyo In 2019

Map created by Univero
The map above compares the Neo-Tokyo’s artificial islands in the Akira anime and Manga series with those of the real life Tokyo Bay in 2019.

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23 Examples Of AI Being Dumb When It Comes To Making Maps

Last Updated: November 29, 2025 3 Comments

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I’m personally a big fan of AI and frequently use it to analysis data, transcribe and translate and even help write map explainers.

But one thing AI still can’t seem to do is make good (or accurate) maps from scratch as the following 20 examples all show.

Most of the following maps come from @ChatgptLunatics aka AI being dumb (follow them for more AI related humour).

And while I didn’t personally create any of the maps below (or more accurately enter the prompts that made them), they very much reflect my own experience using AI to try and create maps.

Techo Bros vs Actual AI

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Fictional Space Flags For Each Country’s Space Program

Last Updated: September 10, 2025 1 Comment

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Fictional Space Flags For Each Country's Space Program part 1

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The Countries, Cities & States That Use Bidets The Most

Last Updated: August 14, 2025 2 Comments

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The Countries That Use Bidets The Most

Map created by QS Supplies
The map above shows which countries use bidets the most. Italy was by far the winner with over three-quarters of hotels having them. Here is more data by country, US state and cities.

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24 Hours Of Flights Between Europe and The US

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

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The video above shows 24 hours worth of flights between Europe and the US from a pre-pandemic 2018.

You can very clearly see the jet stream effects with almost all the flights to Europe following the jet stream and those to the United States either going north or south of it.

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13 Countries & States That Can Fit Inside Canada’s Hudson Bay

Last Updated: July 2, 2025 1 Comment

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Canada’s Hudson Bay is the world’s second largest Bay after the Bay of Bengal.

It is 1,230,000 km2 (470,000 sq mi) about the same size as South Africa or almost twice the size of Texas.

But given it’s unique shape, I wondered what countries and/or US states you could fit inside it.

So here below is a bit of a random selection of places that I found fit inside.

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Tehran Metro vs Los Angeles Metro Rail

Last Updated: June 17, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Tehran Metro vs Los Angeles Metro Rail

Maps created by UrbanRail.Net
With Donald Trump saying people should evacuate Tehran, I thought it might be interesting to compare its Metro system to a similar sized US city.

Before creating the map above I had no real sense just how many people lived in Tehran, but it turns out it’s just slightly smaller than the Greater Los Angeles Area. A lot more than I originally thought!

So here’s how the systems stack up:

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