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I’m a huge fan of Randall Munroe’s XKCD comic, especially his map related ones.

So today I thought I’d share a few of them below, including some explainers with the help of Explain XKCD.

And if you like his work, he’s written several books you can find here.

Map Projections & What They Say About You

More about them

Bad Map Projection #299: The Greenland Special

More about it and other examples

All The Land In Our Solar System

More here

Read the book

How To Date An Undated World Map

Full text

How To “Improve” The Map of The United States By Cleaning Up Some State Borders

Read more here

Read the book

The World According to Americans (Who Really Know Their Geography)

Read more here

What Would Happen If You Pulled A 10m Plug In The Mariana Trench

Watch the full animation

Read the book

Now Time Map

More about the map

Bad map projection #102: The United Stralia, A 50/50 US Australia blend

See 7 other examples

Read it here

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