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James Lucas

@JamesLucasIT

Aug 25, 2024 • 26 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X

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

1. World map according to fish

2. When a band announces a world tour

3. Bosnians: I wanna swim
Croatia: No

4. A guy asked his European girlfriend to fill in a map of the USA. These are the results.

5. All Romes lead to Roads

6. What city comes to mind?

7. The World according to Americans

8. Basically every data map of Europe

9. Asia according to Japan

10. Zimbabwe and Namibia

11. North Korean 2019 election result

12. Twenty ways you can slice up Europe

13. How the rest of the World sees the USA

14. Thirty people were asked to draw a map of the world from memory. The results were combined.

15. Literally all statistics about Italy

16. Most oddly named town in each Us state

17. Comprehensive map of all countries that use the month-day-year date format

18. Being a bad neighbor: lesson 1

19. Every single statistic ever

20. Europe but if Europe colonized it

21. California explained

22. How many Switzerlands fit in Brazil

23. Map of Nice people

24. Meme lovers road trip

25. Chile vs Argentina

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