Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The maps above and below show how the world looks to people with different types of colour blindness.
Up to 8% of men and 0.4% of women in the world may have some colour blindness. In absolute numbers, this translates into as many as 296 million men and 15 million women.
The map above shows what day of the week elections are normally held, but doesn’t say anything about whether the elections are free and/or fair.
The map above shows the Byzantine linguistic divisions of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire during the rule of Justinian I around 560 CE (AD).
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 the First (Blue), Second (Yellow) and Third (Red) Worlds based on their Human Development Index (HDI) score.
Poland has not been one of Europe’s luckiest countries.
It’s gone from being the largest country in Europe to being wiped off the map, not once but several times.
The map below traces the history of Poland’s borders from 1635 right through to the present day.
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 appeared in Jules Verne’s [easyazon_link identifier=”B0082PXMCS” locale=”US” tag=”brilliantmaps-20″]The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century[/easyazon_link] and shows the areas of the world that remained unexplored (to Westerners) in 1881.