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.
Greenland Is Farther East, West, North, And South Than Iceland
The map above shows an somewhat interesting geographical fact: Greenland is farther east, west, north, and south than Iceland.
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.
All The Land In Our Solar System
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.
Palestine’s West Bank Archipelago
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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Flat Earth “Globe”
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.
Map Showing How Airlines Divert Flights Around Syrian Airspace
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.
Chile Is a Ridiculously Long Country – Europe & US Size Comparison
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.