Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows what the earth would look like 158,180 years after someone pulled a 10m plug in the Mariana Trench allowing all the water to drain away.
It was inspired by a map that appeared in What If? by Randall Munroe.
You can watch the full animation below:
Landmass are very generously giving away 3 of their beautiful world scratch maps, exclusively to readers of Brilliant Maps.
The map above shows the Regional Plan Association’s list of 11 Mega-Regions of the United States as part of their America 2050 project.
The deceptively simple map above shows which countries qualified for the 2010, 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cups respectively.
The genius lies in the use of colour, which allows you to very quickly and easily see which countries qualified and in what year(s).
The map shows the percentage of children in various European countries born to parents who are not married.
While the map is in German, the colours are fairly obvious, the darker the red the greater the share of children born outside of marriage is.
The map above shows just about every country that has been invaded by France one way or another.
The various ways include:
The map above shows just how big the United States is or just how big the Mediterranean Sea is, depending on your perspective.
And it should not be confused with the existing American Mediterranean Sea which is the the combined water body of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
The map above shows the ages of bedrock in North America from yellow (youngest) to green to blue to red (oldest). The maps official name is the The North America Tapestry of Time and Terrain.
The map above is Shakaar’s Alpha/Beta map v3.3; a fan-made creation showing the Alpha and Beta quadrants of the Star Trek universe.
The map shows both major and minor powers that have appeared in the various series over the years.
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.