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15 Great Map, Geography, City & Travel Adult Coloring Books

January 21, 2018 Leave a Comment

The map, geography, travel and city inspired adult coloring books below are a great gift for any map lover who already owns an amazing world atlas, a spectacular scratch map and all the best map based strategy board games.

1. City Maps: A Coloring Book For Adults

City Maps: A Coloring Book For Adults

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Greenland Is Farther East, West, North, And South Than Iceland

January 17, 2018 5 Comments

Greenland Is Farther East, West, North, And South Than Iceland

Full credit goes to Reddit user etymologynerd

The map above shows an somewhat interesting geographical fact: Greenland is farther east, west, north, and south than Iceland.

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Scratch Map Giveaway: Win 1 of 3 Scratch Off World Maps From Landmass

November 28, 2017 Leave a Comment

Scratch Map Giveaway: Win 1 of 3 Scratch Off World Maps From Landmass

Landmass are very generously giving away 3 of their beautiful world scratch maps, exclusively to readers of Brilliant Maps.

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All The Land In Our Solar System

September 26, 2017 5 Comments

Map created by Randall Munroe at XKCD

The map above shows the all of the solid surfaces in our solar system stitched together into one giant map.

It excludes gas giants, such as Jupiter, since they do not have any solid land but includes moons, asteroids, comets, etc.

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Palestine’s West Bank Archipelago

July 30, 2017 8 Comments

Palestine Archipelago

Map created by Julien Bousac

The map above shows what Palestine’s West Bank would look like if all non-Palestinian land suddenly turned into water.

All that would remain would be an archipelago of small islands with the sea of Israel to the west and the Jordanian ocean to the east.

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11 Best World Globes For Kids & Children

July 17, 2017 7 Comments

Replogle Explorer Raised Relief Globe

Looking for the perfect kids globe for your child or children? Below we look at 11 wonderful educational globes that will hopefully spark a lifelong interest in learning and geography.

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7 Cool Globe Drinks Cabinets & Bars Your Can Buy Online

July 17, 2017 3 Comments

LiquorShelf Globe

Looking for the perfect globe drinks cabinet or bar? Well the options below are some of the best you can buy online and are all available from Amazon.

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Flat Earth “Globe”

June 19, 2017 3 Comments

Flat Earth

Map created by John Krygier at Making Maps

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.

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Map Showing How Airlines Divert Flights Around Syrian Airspace

June 7, 2017 1 Comment

Map from flightradar24

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.

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Chile Is a Ridiculously Long Country – Europe & US Size Comparison

March 2, 2017 8 Comments

Chile vs Europe

Chile over Europe

You probably already know that Chile is a rather long (or tall) country, but I bet you don’t know just quite how long it is.

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Filed Under: Other Tagged With: Chile

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