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New map shows all 85,000 volcanoes on Venus
Science killed our fascination with Venus. Can recent scientific discoveries reverse the process? This dazzling map, showing the planet’s 85,000 volcanoes, may be a start. Venus is also known as...
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Churchill’s “Germany” would have stretched from France to Ukraine
International border changes are like London buses. For ages, nothing happens. And then all of a sudden, a bunch of them arrive at the same time. And then most proposals end up on the cutting room...
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France is European champion in smoking le reefer
The French are European champions in smoking le reefer. As this map shows, 11% of French people aged 18 to 64 had used cannabis in the previous 12 months. That’s more than anywhere else in Europe —...
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All maps lie. These two maps from the Cold War demonstrate how
There is a basic flaw woven into the very fabric of cartography. We trust maps to tell us the truth, but they can’t help lying to us. The lying starts with the standard flatness of maps. How is that a...
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Give pee a chance: Why German men urinate sitting down
Does language shape culture? Yes, says the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. This map may be used as additional evidence. Take the German language: rich in single words that express things other languages need...
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The most popular person in European street names is a woman
Show me your street names, and I’ll tell you how gender-imbalanced your society is — or, more likely, was. In Europe, that imbalance is ten to one: For every ten streets named after men, there’s only...
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Most Canadians live south of Seattle and other mental map surprises
“Most Canadians live south of Seattle,” my editor Alex writes. “You probably knew this, but have you ever done a map on that?” I’m pretty sure I have, some years ago on the Strange Maps Facebook page....
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Happy, sad, angry, horny: The ultimate map guide to 90s rock music
What was special about the 1990s? Both a lot and nothing much, argues Chuck Klosterman in The Nineties: A Book, a retrospective of the decade that straddles the emergence of the internet. Everything is...
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What do King Charles III, the Pope, and Canadian Inuit have in common?
Old McDonald had a farm. The company managed by his descendants is now the 14th-largest private landowner in the world. Hold your ee-i-ee-i-o’s: This is not the farmer of nursery rhyme fame. That...
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Mongolia’s “Forbidden Zone” is guarding an 800-year-old secret
When you drive north toward Ordos City in China’s Inner Mongolia province, you can’t miss the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan. The massive complex, rebuilt in the 1950s in the traditional Mongol style,...
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Columbus was neither the first nor the nicest. But his voyage was the most...
One of my favorite childhood books was The Discovery of America Before Columbus. Extrapolating from scant archaeological and ethnographic evidence and building on oblique references found in ancient...
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An astronaut’s view reveals China’s geopolitical claustrophobia
This map takes you to dizzying heights. It gives you the perspective of an astronaut in a space station circling the globe, hundreds of miles above the Eurasian land mass. You’re still crossing Central...
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There’s an entire solar system hiding inside Sweden
It’s hard to miss when you walk around southern Stockholm: the giant white ball known officially as the Avicii Arena, which locals simply call Globen, or “the Globe.” With a diameter of 360 feet (110...
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Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live
The Big Five personality traits, a.k.a. the CANOE model. There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests. (Credit: MissLunaRose12 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Does...
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Where Americans prefer to eat and drink coffee in each U.S. state
A McDonald’s restaurant in the Kingdom Mall in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. America’s biggest burger chain is usually the first one to enter foreign markets. (Credit: Lynsey Addario / Getty...
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Alt history: What if the U.S. lost a World War?
Famed aviator Charles Lindbergh (top left) addresses a crowd of 3,000 at an America First Rally in the Gospel Temple of Fort Wayne, Indiana. (Credit: Library of Congress / Public domain) By the late...
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No, the Gulf Stream isn’t going to collapse
There’s a perverse joy in reading (and writing) about catastrophic climate change. You could say that it’s a secular version of the yearning for the Apocalypse, and perhaps proof that such apocalyptic...
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The skull maps that quantified racism
Most people who read these century-old maps today will pass through three stages of interpretation: honest curiosity, morbid fascination, and intellectual disgust. A landscape of human skull shapes...
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The medieval mapmaker remembered for the wrong map
If you know one thing about 12th-century Arab cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, it is that he is the author of this wonky world map, which is often included in modern atlases as a prime example of...
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Lemuria, the weirdest continent that never existed
Philip Sclater should have stopped writing in 1858. That’s when he published one of the foundational texts of biogeography, the science that studies the distribution of species and ecosystems across...
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