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World Map Used in North Korea

November 29, 2015 2 Comments

World Map Used in North Korea

Photo from imgur user SubKuLT, via reddit.

The photo above, allegedly shows a North Korean (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; DPRK) world map.

It takes several cartographical liberties, most notably showing the entire Korean peninsula as a single unified country.

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Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: projections

World’s Largest Cylindrical Map of the World

September 26, 2015 Leave a Comment

Painted on a cooling tower of a disused gas plant near Meppen, Germany.

Map found via reddit

The map above is in the Guinness Book of World Records as being the largest. However, reddit user cragglerock93 disputes this claiming that Dubai’s World Islands, while “… not exactly a geographically accurate map,” are in fact be bigger.

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Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: projections

The True Size of Africa

September 8, 2015 6 Comments

The True Size of Africa

Map created by reddit user edtheredted using thetruesize.com

While it doesn’t look it, Africa is big, really big. In fact, Africa’s true size is 30 million square km, just under twice the size of Russia or bigger than Canada, the United States and China put together!

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Filed Under: Africa Tagged With: comparison, projections

Map Projections & What They Say About You

June 18, 2015 14 Comments

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Comic by Randall Munroe at XKCD

Most people go through life perfectly happy in the knowledge that the real earth looks like it does on a standard Mercator projection map. Cartographers, map nerds and those that have seen this scene from the West Wing know that this is not really the case.

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Filed Under: Other Tagged With: projections


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