This map appears on a postcard published by the Northern Irish publisher John Cleland & Son Ltd in 1912 and is...
Propaganda Maps

Angola is not a small country (2011)
This map was created in 2011 by architect Paulo Moreira, in response to the famous Portuguese imperialist map Portugal no...

The Cotton Kingdom and its dependencies in America (1862)
This map by Frederick Law Olmsted was published in 1862, in the context of the American Civil War...

Map of the Spanish Civil War (1938)
This map was published in 1938 in Bilbao. It was printed by Artes Gráficas Grijelmo, and the...

The theft of England's territory (1914)
This map, published by Pharus Verlag in 1914, shows the possessions of the British Empire at the very beginning of the First...

Russian possessions in California (1836)
This map, drawn by Fyodor Poznyakov, is part of Всеобщий атлас или собрание карт всего земного шара (Universal Atlas or...

The Iranian Empire and its Neighbours (1942)
This map, produced by the British News Centre, shows Iran and its neighbouring countries. It includes a calendar on the sides...

Burglaries worldwide (2021)
This infographic shows the prevalence of burglaries worldwide, with data from 2018. The map...

How much territory has Russia occupied in Ukraine (2025)
This map was published in October 2025 on the cover of the German magazine Katapult. With the title How much...

Japanese products travelling around the world (1934)
This map, published by Kabushiki-gaisha Chūōkōron-sha, shows Japan's trade relations in 1934. Kabushiki-gaisha Chūōkōron-sha was a...

Dutch colonies in danger (1940)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the San Francisco Examiner newspaper in October 1940, in the context...

Beijing after the Cultural Revolution (1967)
This map was published in 1967 in China by the Red Guards, in the context of the Cultural Revolution. The...

Regions where recent and recurring genocides have occurred (1988)
This map, published by American geographer William Bunge in 1988, shows the regions where genocides have occurred in the...

The first two-state proposal for Israel and Palestine (1937)
This map of the Middle East was one of the controversial maps published by the Pro-Palestine Herald in autumn 1937.…

American educational world map (1987)
This world map was published by Rand McNally in 1987. Rand McNally is an American cartographic publisher...

The United States, one people from many countries (1940)
This map was drawn by Emma Cartwright Bourne in 1940 for The Council Against Intolerance in America.

The first satirical map of Europe (1854)
This map, drawn by Thomas Onwhyn and published by Rock Brothers & Payne in 1854, shows the situation in Europe...

The next European war will start in Ukraine (1939)
This map was published by the American magazine Look on 14 March 1939, half a year before the outbreak...

German colonies before the war (1938)
This map was drawn by Richard Quincy Yardley and his wife Peggy in 1938 and published that same year in...

Iran, a rich land, a poor country (1946)
This map, published in Newsmap magazine in 1946, shows strategic information about Iran. Newsmap was a magazine published by...
