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James Lucas@JamesLucasIT · Aug 6, 2024

Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. All roads lead to Rome

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A curated collection of 30 fascinating maps covering topics ranging from geography and history to population distribution and cultural data, including classics like map projections, Roman Empire territories, and unique visualizations like wolf pack ranges and pasta varieties by region.

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    Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. All roads lead to Rome

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    2. An image of GPS tracking of multiple wolves in six different packs around Voyageurs National Park shows how much the wolf packs avoid each other's range.

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    3. Everybody alive today compared to everybody who has ever lived

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    4. Pangea, the supercontinent that existed around 300 million years ago, shown with the borders of modern countries.

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    5. France's longest border is shared with Brazil

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    6.Light blue is a map as we know it and dark blue is the actual size of each country

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    7. List of countries mentioned or referred in the Bible

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    8. South America elevation tile map

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    9. The languages of the world

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    10. The real size of Africa. Most people are shocked when they see the real size of Africa because the most commonly used map of the world, the Mercator projection, features a significantly distorted size of countries and continents.

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    11. Each section of this map contains 10% of the world's population

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    12. Interactive Topography Sandbox

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    13. Places where birthright Citizenship is based on land and places where it is based on blood

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    14. Where Roman coins have been found

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    15. A Europe–U.S. superhighway, proposed by the former president of Russian Railways, envisioning a massive infrastructure project that would link Europe and the United States through Russia and Alaska.

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    16. Percentage of males who are circumcised in each Country

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    17. In which state you can find the highest percentage of people with ancestry from every European country?

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    18. The most popular sport in every country in the world

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    19. Geological map of Scotland

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    20. Passenger railway network 2020

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    21. Map of languages spoken in China

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    22. Did you know that 50 % of the Canadian population lives south of the red line?

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    23. The United States and Canada at the same latitudes as Europe

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    24. Map of Alexander the Great's conquests

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    25. The Kiss of the oceans, a postcard-map from 1923

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    26. The Roman Empire at its territorial height in 117 A.D

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    27. Melbourne is closer to Antarctica than it is to Darwin

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    28. Italian Pasta Map

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    29. A map of Europe by each nation's most iconic artwork

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    30. Antarctica’s weird time zones

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    James Lucas@JamesLucasIT · Aug 6, 2024

    Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. All roads lead to Rome