#strangemaps

2025-06-17

Why China is eating its tiny neighbor, Bhutan #StrangeMaps

bigthink.com/strange-maps/indi

2025-01-30

Did you know that Greenland actually has a more valid claim on the USA than the other way around? How do you Americans feel to become part of Greenland?

Counteroffer: What if Greenland bought the U.S.?
> The Danish territory harks back to Leif Erikson’s discovery of America to stake its ambitious and playful claim.

bigthink.com/strange-maps/gree

#randomactofdefiance #geopolitics #sillyseason #strangemaps

2024-10-14

Early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals — and scientists recently pinpointed a key site of contact.
#StrangeMaps

bigthink.com/strange-maps/sapi

Atlas Obscuraatlas@libranet.de
2024-05-24
This map shows the spread of felines by Egyptians, Romans, Vikings—and prehistoric ancestors.#prehistoric #strangemaps #maps #migrations #cats #section-Articles
Were Egyptians Really the First to Domesticate Cats? Try Cave Men
Atlas Obscuraatlas@libranet.de
2024-05-10
Atlas Obscuraatlas@libranet.de
2024-04-12
Atlas Obscuraatlas@libranet.de
2024-04-05
About 69 percent of the global diet is "foreign," says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops.#crops #bananas #vegetables #fruit #potatoes #tomatoes #food #strangemaps #section-Articles
Why Jesus Never Ate a Banana
Atlas Obscuraatlas@libranet.de
2024-03-29
Atlas Obscuraatlas@libranet.de
2024-03-01
An airport in midtown? See alternate versions of the cities based on real proposed projects.#strangemaps #alternatehistory #design #urbanplanning #section-Articles
New York City and London Could Have Looked Very Different
Seán HanleyDrSeanHanley
2024-02-16

Here h/t @dullmen map made for Polish pilots with Polish pronounciation of towns in Eastern England.

Map of Eastern England with names spelled phonetically in Polish

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