This map, drawn by William E. McNulty and Jerome N. Cookson and published by National Geographic in 2012, shows the...
Curious Maps

Map of South America according to Brazilians (2016)
This map, created by Yanko Tsvetkov, is part of the “Atlas of Prejudice”. This image groups together some of the prejudices...

Ireland's mythological monsters (2022)
This map, created by Neil Parkinson of Púca Printhouse in 2022, shows the monsters of the mythology of the island of Ireland,...

Sand cat habitat (2022)
This map was published by Wanmei Liang in 2022 as part of the #30DayMapChallenge initiative. The sand cat (Felis margarita) is...

Antarctica, World of Warcraft-style (2023)
This map, created by Santiago Reyes in 2024, depicts Antarctica. The illustration is part of the project to represent the entire...

Illustrated map of Taiwan (2024)
This map was published by Justine Vignat in 2024 as part of the #30DayMapChallenge initiative. In this map painted in watercolour, the...

How dogs bark (2023)
This map, published by Wordtips in 2023, shows how a dog's bark is represented in every country in the world....

The mythological monsters of the Netherlands (2025)
This map, created by Neil Parkinson of Púca Printhouse in 2025, shows the monsters of Dutch mythology. Among the...

Countries crossed by the equator (2019)
This map, published by ThoughtCo in 2019, shows all the countries in the world that are crossed by the line of...

Linguistic map of garlic (2024)
This map, published by Mapologies in 2024, shows how to say garlic in the different languages spoken in Europe. Using a...

South America on a cushion for the blind (1900)
This piece was possibly created by students at the Perkins School in Massachusetts, USA, around 1900. It shows...

Loveland Pictorial Map (1943)
This map was drawn by illustrator Ernest Dudley Chase and published under his own imprint in 1943. It is...

Haiti, World of Warcraft style (2024)
This map, created by Santiago Reyes in 2024, represents Haiti. The illustration is part of a project to represent all of Latin America...

Trans-Saharan gas pipeline (2014)
This map is part of the 2014 OECD Atlas on the Sahara and the Sahel, published under the...

America's mythological monsters (2021)
This map, created by Neil Parkinson of Púca Printhouse in 2021, shows the monsters of US mythology. Among the...

Illustrated map of Rhodes (1996)
This map, drawn by Mario Camerini in 1996, shows the island of Rhodes in Greece. Rhodes is located in the...

Why Greenland matters (2026)
This map, published by the Turkish Anadolu Agency in 2026, shows the geopolitical importance of Greenland. The central map sets out...

Contagion: A Brief History of Malaria, Leprosy and Smallpox (2009)
This map, produced by Hasaim Hussein in 2009 for Lapham's Quarterly magazine, shows the origin and spread of smallpox, the...

Europe gridded (2020)
This map of Europe was posted by Frank Neumann on Reddit in 2020. The map represents each country in the...

Distance to India, with India as the unit of measurement (2022)
This map, created by Reddit user tomydenger, represents the distance from every point in the world to India...
