30 Information-Rich Maps Are So Unique And Amazing, You'll Find Yourself Looking At The World From A New Perspective

A compilation of the most unique and information-centric maps that allows you to look at the world differently.

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• Published in Interesting
• January 6, 2022

You cannot deny the importance of a map. It is so vital that every smartphone has it installed by default.

Aside from allowing you to figure out how to travel from one point to another, it helps you determine which paths to take. If you're looking for a particular location, a map will tell you information about the road names and the landmarks that surround it.

If you're into geography or taking an Earth-related subject, a topographic map describes land features and elevation. And if you're going for a hike, a national park map will show you the different trails, facility locations, and points of interest.

A lot of us use GPS and Google maps every day. But even that, combined with an interest in history and geography, chances are you're not really into cartography.

The "art and science of representing geographical areas" enables one to build a different reality that uses spatial information efficiently. The maps we've collected today are exactly that.

Thanks to a community in Reddit dedicated to sharing the most interesting maps, there are tons of interesting information presented in maps. So if you're looking for a different kind of adventure, this post is for you.

You might even find places that you've never heard about. So let's take a look at the 30 maps that can change your perspective on a variety of things.

1. Protests in Europe from 2020 to 2021.

2. Comparative illustration of Olympus Mons and France

3. An Antartica-centric map

4. Requests to remove content from Google by country (beginning 2011)

#27 Government Request To Remove Content (Google) Since 2011

5. LGBTQ+ free areas in Poland.

6. Innocent opinions that split nations into half.

7. Map showing where Atheists are banned from holding public office in the eight states of the US.

8. Australia and The Mediterranean comparison in terms of size

9. Most common method of transportation to work per US county by Acs Survey

10. This is possibly the longest journey by train in the whole world.

11. The capital city of each country represented by a star

12. Canada's roads

13. A visualization of The Armenian Genocide, which began more than a hundred years ago.

14. Beautiful weather zones in the USA illustrated by Mattie Lubchansky

15. Russia's topographical map

16. If you're looking for a trip passing through locations of the same tempreture, use this map

17. Cultural superiority in Europe

18. The world's longest non-stop flights

19. The Amazon's 20-year deforestation represented in a map

20. Europe and the USA at the same latitude

21. If the sea level of the Earth decreased by 1000 meters, it would look like this.

22. Indian homes with tap water connection from the period of October 2019 to November 2021

23. Countries with the most number of islands.

24. The trees of Canada

25. Grand Canyon ink map

26. This shows the number of sunken Japanese warships used in World War II

27. Phone map of Ireland

28. UK's weirdest place names and their location

29. Countries that had a female head of state in the last century

30. Escaping prison is not a crime in these European countries.

Did you discover something interesting after viewing these maps?

Maps communicate complicated information in a way that's easy for us to digest. They can be used to present different kinds of mind-blowing data.

There are tons of interesting maps shared by Reddit users. Go ahead and check out the community if you want to see more.

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