Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
If you’re in London at some point before 1 March 2017, you need to head over to the British Library and check out Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line. (and if not you should buy the book instead).
It is quite simply the best map exhibit I’ve ever seen.
Now that 2016 is finally over, we thought it would be fun to look back at our most popular maps from last year.
(We did the same thing for the Top 15 Maps of 2015 last year.)
The maps below are ranked on the number of visitors each received in 2016. As you’ll see some are older posts that got a second lease on life, while most are brand new to 2016.
Enjoy:
The map above shows how far you theoretically could see from the top of Mt. Everest on perfectly clear day, with perfect vision and without any obstacles.
The map above shows countries where the world’s most viral app ever, Pokemon GO, is available.
The map shows what an independent Republic of Kamchatka, (best known as a territory in Risk) might look like.
The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest body of inland water in the world with an area of 68,000 km2 but, as the map dramatically illustrates, it has now shrunk and fragmented to a mere shadow of its former self.
It lies between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. Its drainage basin also includes parts of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan.
The map above shows the Western Arabia Terra region of Mars. It was created by the Ordnance Survey, Britain’s official mapping agency.
The map above shows many of the places in Norway literally named after Hell (Helvete in Norwegian). In total there are over 300 place names recorded by the Norwegian Mapping Authority.
The interactive global sound map below is one of the cooler and more original map concepts we’ve come across. It let’s you listen to sounds from around the world.
The map above was created by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, who was a Pakistani nationalist and is often credited with coming up with the name ‘Pakistan.’