20 brilliant maps which will change the way you see the world
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Chile is as long as Europe
(via @AddictMap) pic.twitter.com/DULapapVeH— Tomas Pueyo (@tomaspueyo) April 14, 2023
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Broadly speaking, Europe, the US, Brazil, Australia, Russia, China, and India are comparable in orders of magnitude pic.twitter.com/bLMPUaIZ6p
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Here's Australia containing the Mediterranean: pic.twitter.com/P4VFlu4apg
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And the biggest thing of all is by far the Pacific Ocean
A third of the world pic.twitter.com/BQjqw4zwAq— Tomas Pueyo (@tomaspueyo) April 14, 2023
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So one thing is how you project a sphere into a map. Another one is where you center it.
What if we centered it around Argentina? pic.twitter.com/MeYTAhcIlb
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Or New Zealand? pic.twitter.com/QXAITmeIn5
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Or China, and we made it vertical? pic.twitter.com/rM7TJCi6Jd
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Poor Antarctica feels lonely: pic.twitter.com/poTRvvBs0T
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Conversely, Alaska is one of the best logistics bases for air cargo because it's close to all the northern hemisphere markets: pic.twitter.com/sisoxZewpe
— Tomas Pueyo (@tomaspueyo) April 14, 2023
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If you go all in, you can see the world according to fishes. Pretty well connected! pic.twitter.com/Aq7QwZ3VAr
— Tomas Pueyo (@tomaspueyo) April 14, 2023
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Maybe maps are biased because they fit the international community:
(via @TerribleMaps ) pic.twitter.com/ZGFZlbyyPI— Tomas Pueyo (@tomaspueyo) April 14, 2023
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OK that's all for today. I'll add some more in my free newsletter, subscribe to get it:https://t.co/ky2JevTvio
Here's a last one that really surprised me, to give you a taste: the westernmost point in China is closer to Germany than to its easternmost point! pic.twitter.com/X4EN23ugmm
— Tomas Pueyo (@tomaspueyo) April 14, 2023
Fascinating stuff!
And to finish, here’s a clip from the brilliant TV show ‘The West Wing’ which has all of this covered…
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Just 17 extremely interesting maps to get your juices flowing, from ‘Map Porn’ on Reddit
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