This map, published in pamphlet form in late 1945 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, depicts Joseph Stalin...
Propaganda Maps

The World According to Ronald Reagan (1987)
This illustration, published by American cartoonist David Horsey in 1987 for the Seattle Post Intelligencer, satirically depicts...

The Dollar Octopus (1942)
This map was published by Louis Emile Manche, a Dutch Nazi, for the propaganda section of the Department of Illustration...

The world according to the British Conservative Party (1985)
This map was created by Patrick Barlow as part of the book “Spitting Image” and edited by Fluck Law and Roger...

Refugees in the world (1979)
This sequence of maps was created by Paul J. Pugliese for the teacher education programme of the magazine...

A Divided World (1941)
This map, published by Richard Edes Harrison for Fortune magazine in 1941, shows the world divided in the midst of the Second...

Caricature of the world according to the Japanese (1924)
This caricature map was created by the Japanese artists Ogawa Jihei and Maekawa Senpan in 1924 and depicts the world laden with...

How Japan Might Attack the United States (1937)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper in 1937, two years before...

Map of the Arab League (1960)
This map was commissioned by Abd al-Karim Qasim, leader of the Iraqi Republic, in 1960. The aim of the...

The Situation of Paradise on Earth (1700)
This map, published by French publisher Pieter Mortier, was published in 1700 and aims to establish the situation...

Alaska, the 49th state (1958)
This propaganda map, created by Robert M. Chapin, was published in TIME magazine on 9 June 1958.

Expansion of the British Empire (1886)
This map was published by the Imperial Federation League in 1886.

One by one, we will break his legs (1941)
This propaganda map was created by Kimon Evan Marengo, a cartoonist working for the British Ministry of Information (MOI), a...

Women's suffrage for success (1917)
This map, published by National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co. in 1917, shows the progress of women's suffrage in Canada and the United States.

Palestine, the key to peace in the Middle East (1920–1980)
This sequence of maps was created by Paul J. Pugliese for the teacher education programme of the magazine...

45 years is enough! – Bulgaria (1989)
This map was created by Dimitar Tomov, a member of a human rights organisation in Bulgaria...

Overview of the European Spring (1915)
This satirical map was published in 1915 by Lucas Gräfe. It is a piece of propaganda published by the...

Germany in 1950 (1909)
This map, by an unknown author, was first published in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1909 and distributed to members of the...

Where are the victims? Let's save the survivors (1918)
This map was illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts for the American Committee for Near East Relief. It was part of...

My country is you – New Prussia (1916)
This map appeared on the cover of Life magazine on 10 February 1916. The world was...
