Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows what a United States of Greater Austria might have looked like.
It’s based a proposal conceived by the lawyer and politician Aurel Popovici in 1906. The proposal has been superimposed on a map of the ethnic groups of Austria-Hungary in 1910 which is based on “Distribution of Races in Austria-Hungary” from the Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1911.
The map above is titled: “Tearing Mexico Apart: Eight Ways to Divide Mexico By Stereotypes” and was created by reddit MAPMENOW who claims that: “It was created based on my own experiences as Mexican…”.
The map above shows where nobody in France lives, based on 1km2 squares. In total, 31.7% of metropolitan France is uninhabited.
Which is actually pretty remarkable considering the number for the United States is 47%, despite the fact that France is almost 4X more densely populated than the United States (123 people per km2 vs 34 people km2)
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.