The history of accuracy in world maps

I tried to find the date of origin for every international border

City plan for the proposed redevelopment of Juba, South Sudan

#africa, #arab_world, #indonesia, #sudan

Country names in Africa that used to mean something else

#africa

Sinister anti-Japanese propaganda, Dutch East Indies

#japan, #netherlands

In 100 statistical maps posted to MapPorn, how likely is any country to have data?

35 place names in Iceland that will help you understand what dyslexia feels like

#europe, #iceland

Eight ways to divide Norway

#europe, #norway

Weird short-lived states of the Russian Civil War

#russia

Places in Norway literally named after Hell

#europe, #norway

Where is Syldavia?

Current governments in exile

Countries that have changed their names

Unrecognised states in Africa

#africa

Population density in Viking Age Norway

#census, #europe, #norway

The World's Shortest Borders

Hand drawn maps of Norwegian fjords (1872) overlayed on Google Earth's 3D mountain formations.

#19th_century, #norway

North and South America, 1828

#19th_century, #south_america, #united_states

This alternate history map made its way into a Danish history school book...

#denmark

The proposed Salwa Canal, which would make Qatar the world's 50th island nation

#arab_world, #asia, #qatar

The amazing Dico-O-Knowledge™ of "Speed Geography!"

Major colonial empires drawn to scale, 1800 AD

#18th_century, #colonialism

Taiwan's territorial claims

#asia, #taiwan

Countries that have changed their names

Historical expansion and relocation of Oslo

#norway

How many times countries have changed their flag

The size of Somalia, with statistics

#africa, #arab_world, #somalia

Church membership vs. church attendance in Norway

#europe, #norway

35 Place names in Iceland that will help you understand what dyslexia feels like

#europe, #iceland

1950s pictorial map of Morocco

#africa, #arab_world, #morocco

Map of former countries in Asia

#asia

Africa, 1896

#19th_century, #africa

The demilitarised zone between Norway and Sweden, in effect 1905–1993.

#20th_century, #europe, #norway, #sweden

Map of the US from 1853 targeting Norwegian immigrants, including where cheap unappropriated land is still avilable, a little flag for the largest Norwegian settlements, and -- for some reason -- the Territory of Deseret

#19th_century, #north_america, #norway, #united_states

Viking ruins in Greenland

#greenland

The Carta Marina (1539) translated to modern place names

#16th_century

"Star of Africa", a classic Finnish board game playing on 1950s exoticism

#africa, #finland

Fantasy-style map of Norway's unification

#europe, #norway

The Civilization earth maps 1991-2010

#20th_century

Expansion and administrative divisions of Nazi Germany, 1943

#20th_century, #europe, #germany

World's largest lakes on a uniform scale (1851)

#19th_century

Everything that was ever Norwegian

#norway

Viking expansion map

Formal declarations of war since 1945

#20th_century

Geographic distribution of imbeciles in Norway, 1859

#19th_century, #europe, #norway

All the Civilization world maps

Map of former countries in North and South America

#south_america, #united_states

NASA's map of the Apollo 11 mission

Major colonial empires drawn to scale, 1800 AD

#18th_century, #colonialism

An attempt to map the Norse sagas mentioning North America

#north_america, #united_states

Another 1943 map of Europe, bought in Berlin for €5

#20th_century, #europe, #germany

I got to see a beautiful 1511 world map today

#16th_century

Map of watersheds that kind of looks like a confusing political map at first

#politics

North America in 1660

#17th_century, #north_america, #united_states

Detailed map of The Holy Roman Empire in 1477

#15th_century

State of ongoing national mapping efforts, 1857

#19th_century

The world's most expensive map, sold at $2,000,000 to a private collector in 2010

A peculiar, proposed "United States of Europe", 1884.

#19th_century, #europe, #north_america, #united_states

The Geographical Publishing Company's World Wall Atlas (c. 1930)

#20th_century

World map, 1891

#19th_century

Economic comparison of North and South Korea, 1968

#20th_century, #asia, #korea, #south_korea

The five smallest countries compared to London and New York

#new_york, #united_kingdom, #us_states

North America, 1832

#19th_century, #north_america, #united_states

New Caledonia, holding a referendum and may become the world's youngest nation today

#new_caledonia

Every independence referendum

#missouri

1935 Pan American advertisement for South America routes

#20th_century, #south_america, #united_states

A timeline of the fall of the Warszaw pact

The German Army's map of London, 1940

#20th_century, #germany, #united_kingdom

Introduction of various employee's rights in the US

#north_america, #united_states

The world's 10 largest glaciers drawn to scale

Every river and stream in Norway

#europe, #norway

All place names mentioned in Norwegian sagas and Medieval parchments

#norway

North America 1863, with scenes of wildlife, natives and plantations

#19th_century, #north_america, #united_states

Poland, Lithuania and the Lands of the Teutonic Order in the 14th and 15th century

#15th_century, #europe, #lithuania, #poland

Japanese world map, 1936

#20th_century, #japan

England and Wales under the House of Lancaster

#united_kingdom

Expansion of the Third Reich

This 1753 map of the Northern Pacific is pretty much crazy guesswork

#18th_century, #pacific

Another "movie map", from the series *The Pacific* (2010)

#pacific

An unexpected way to color the unexplored areas of North America

#north_america, #united_states

The route of Willem Barentsz' 1594 Arctic expedition

#16th_century

1860s geography lesson: The map on the right was drawn by a schoolchild in 1869 in one of the common "map copying" books of the time

#19th_century

Japanese map of the US Navy's situation in the Pacific, 1942

#20th_century, #japan, #north_america, #pacific, #united_states

Battles between Native Americans and Europeans, 1521-1890

#16th_century, #19th_century, #europe, #united_states

The five most remote buildings in Norway

#europe, #norway

The United States in 1842

#19th_century, #north_america, #united_states

1700s map of Kjeøya, Norway, in a mesmerizing drawing style

#europe, #norway

Huge, detailed map of Austria-Hungary (1841)

#19th_century, #austria, #europe, #hungary

The Middle East in 1913

#20th_century, #middle_east

Huge wall map of Asia, 1950

Asia, 1896

#19th_century, #asia

If the Islamic State was an internationally recognised country, it would now be the second smallest one

Detailed map of the territorial claims of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

#asia, #china, #taiwan

Giant version of the Idrisi map of the world, 1154.

#12th_century

Surviving medieval churches in Norway

#europe, #norway

Map of the British Isles, 1570

#16th_century, #united_kingdom

Ephemeral states of America

#united_states

Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of Scandinavia

#16th_century

Explaining map history to children (1955)

#20th_century

Pictorial map of Normandie