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Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵

1. All roads lead to Rome Image
2. An image of GPS tracking of multiple wolves in six different packs around Voyageurs National Park shows how much the wolf packs avoid each other's range.   📸: Thomas Gable
3. Everybody alive today compared to everybody who has ever lived Image
4. Pangea, the supercontinent that existed around 300 million years ago, shown with the borders of modern countries. Image
5. France's longest border is shared with Brazil Image
6.Light blue is a map as we know it and dark blue is the actual size of each country Image
7. List of countries mentioned or referred in the Bible Image
8. South America elevation tile map Image
9. The languages of the world Image
10. The real size of Africa.

Most people are shocked when they see the real size of Africa because the most commonly used map of the world, the Mercator projection, features a significantly distorted size of countries and continents. Image
11. Each section of this map contains 10% of the world's population Image
12. Interactive Topography Sandbox

13. Places where birthright Citizenship is based on land and places where it is based on blood Image
14. Where Roman coins have been found Image
15. A Europe–U.S. superhighway, proposed by the former president of Russian Railways, envisioning a massive infrastructure project that would link Europe and the United States through Russia and Alaska. Image
16. Percentage of males who are circumcised in each Country Image
17. In which state you can find the highest percentage of people with ancestry from every European country? Image
18. The most popular sport in every country in the world Image
19. Geological map of Scotland Image
20. Passenger railway network 2020 Image
21. Map of languages spoken in China Image
22. Did you know that 50 % of the Canadian population lives south of the red line? Image
23. The United States and Canada at the same latitudes as Europe Image
24. Map of Alexander the Great's conquests Image
25. The Kiss of the oceans, a postcard-map from 1923 Image
26. The Roman Empire at its territorial height in 117 A.D Image
27. Melbourne is closer to Antarctica than it is to Darwin Image
28. Italian Pasta Map Image
29. A map of Europe by each nation's most iconic artwork Image
30. Antarctica’s weird time zones Image
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