The maps below show how skewed population concentrations are in various countries around the world from Egypt to China to Canada and the United States (at the bottom).

But before continuing I’m not exactly sure who created the original maps, so if you know please leave a comment and let me know so I can give proper credit.

Also the population figures are slightly too low for most countries so I suspect the maps are a few years old.

1. Egypt

• Orange Area: 104 million people
• Green Area: 1.7 million people

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Map created by stoneward13The map above is a simplified map of the Star Wars Galaxy, showing major systems and hyperplanes while avoiding more minor systems.

This the second version of the map. The first version:

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The map above shows the fonts used in the logos for the various tourism boards across Europe.

It was created by Atlasova in 2023, so some countries may have changed slightly since then.

Below you can also see their maps for the US and Asia. Along with a map of the actual logos of European countries.

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Map created by atlasova.worldThe map above shows potential Top Level Domain Names (TLDs) of European countries and Empires in 1199 AD. (If the Internet existed back then)

Here’s an explainer for each of them:

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Map created by atlasova.worldThe map above was created by the team at Atlasova.world, a Dutch based team of amazing map creators.

And it pokes some fun at some stereotypes of various regions of the Netherlands.

It’s in a very similar comedic vein as the 20 Ways To Divide Europe By Stereotype.

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Map of Venus with Water

The 4 maps here were all created by Alexis Huet and shows that the Moon, Venus, Mars & Mercury might look if they if they were 70% water like the Earth.

Above you can see Venus:

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The map meme above is poking a bit of fun at the enduring popularity of the Mercator projection, even though it has many issues.

These posts explain a few of them:

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Created by Randall Munroe at XKCD as Map Age Guide, click for larger versionThe flowchart above is a classic from Randall Munroe at XKCD showing how you can relatively easily figure out the date of any undated world map (assuming it’s complete, in English and has enough details).

And if you want to know read the full text see below (provided by Explain XKCD):

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Map found on reddit

According to Adobe: “A “modern”‘ PDF file can be 15,000,000 inches in each direction.” 15 million Inches is 38,100,000 cm or 236.74 miles or 381 km.

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Map created by reddit user Persistent_Bug_0101The map above shows which countries are mentioned in the Bible or more specifically which modern day countries have locations within their borders mentioned in the bible.

Here are the caveats from the map itself:

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