This map, created by Joyce Ma for the Visual Capitalist website, shows the percentage of the underground economy in each country in the world, according to...
World maps (184 maps)
The countries of the League of Nations (1921)
This map, created by Funk & Wagnalls for the American magazine Literary Digests, shows the newly formed League...
Universalis Cosmographia by Martin Waldseemüller (1507)
This map was published by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507. It is a world map measuring 1.3 x 2.3 metres...
Distribution of bears around the world (2013)
This map, created by Kenny Chmielewski for Encyclopaedia Britannica, shows the distribution of the eight species of bears in...
Commemorative set marking the visit to Europe by aeroplane (1925)
This map was published in 1925 by Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's oldest newspapers. In 1925, the...
Countries with the most embassies in the world (2024)
This map, created by Marcus Lu for the Visual Capitalist website, shows the 25 countries with the most embassies abroad...
Map of women in the labour market (2021)
This map, published by Our World in Data, represents the situation of women in the labour market and...
The world map of the Nuremberg Chronicles (1493)
This map was published in 1493 in the Liber Chronicarum, the work popularly known as the Nuremberg Chronicles. The...
World population density (2023)
This illustration, created by Terence Teo, represents the population density of the world using a three-dimensional map. To...
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...
Citizenship laws around the world (2021)
This map, created by Álvaro Merino for El Orden Mundial in 2021, shows how citizenship is obtained at birth...
Map of coastlines during the Ice Age (2018)
This map, created by atlas-v7x, shows the extent of glaciers during the Ice Age, as well as the layout...
When is Christmas celebrated (2023)
This map, created by Álvaro Merino for El Orden Mundial in 2023, shows when Christmas is celebrated in each country around the world. The...
World map of tropical diseases (1944)
This illustration was created by Boris Artzybasheff, an American artist of Ukrainian origin, in 1944. It was published as part of a...
Future expansion of the BRICS (2023)
This map, created by the website Visual Capitalist, shows the expansion plans of the BRICS countries following the historic enlargement agreement...
What Germany wants (1917)
This map was published by Stanfords, a London-based publisher, in 1917 in an attempt to show the aggressiveness of the Empire...
Seasonal ocean temperatures (2024)
This map was published by Cédric Vidonne in 2024 as part of the #30DayMapChallenge initiative. It consists of two maps that...
How different languages laugh on the Internet (2023)
This map, originally published by Preply in 2022 and updated in 2023, represents the different ways of expressing...
How “Made in the USA” weapons supply allies (1942)
This map, published by the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1942, a few weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, shows a map...
The world powers (1957)
This map, drawn by John Ian Bartholomew, appears as part of the 1957 edition of The Times Atlas. The...
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