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Throwback: 17 Alternative World Maps You May Have Missed

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Brilliant Maps
March 07, 2025

Hello and welcome back,

I’m off work today for my son’s 2nd birthday.

So I’m re-sending one of my original newsletters from 18 months ago, featuring 17 alternative world maps, you may have missed.

I’ll be back Monday with some new regularly scheduled maps.

Hope you enjoy:

  1. Map Projections: Mercator Vs The True Size of Each Country

  2. A World Map Centered on Argentina

  3. How The World Might Look In 250 Million Years With Current International Borders

  4. Pangaea With Current International Borders

  5. 19 World Maps In The Style of Famous Artists

  6. The Known World According To Herodotus In The 5th Century BC

  7. Building The World Country By Country In Order of Population Density [Lowest to Highest]

  8. How The Colour Blind See The World

  9. Etch A Sketch World Map: One Line, One Map, One World

  10. World's Largest Cylindrical Map of the World

  11. 1853 Japanese Map Of The World By Suido Nakajima

  12. Territorial Waters & Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) Of The World

  13. Where Woolly Mammoths Used To Roam – Range At Their Peak

  14. The World’s Population In 1900 Looked Very Different Than Today

  15.  The Pacific Ocean is Larger Than All Land On Earth

  16. All The Land In Our Solar System

  17. Map Projections & What They Say About You

I’ve also posted several Youtube maps over the past few weeks you can check out by clicking here.

If you enjoy any of the maps above, please help us by sharing them on Facebook, Threads, Twitter, etc.

Finally, you can also follow us here:

Thanks,

Ian