Thread by @theepicmap

Have you ever wished to view the world from a completely new perspective? This thread on cool maps is here to blow your mind.

1. The Mississippi River and its tributaries

2. Sunshine duration in hours per year. USA and Europe

3. Gravity is not 9.8 ms^2. That's just the global average. On this globe it is stronger in the red areas and weaker in the blue areas

4. World map according to Google Street View in 2023

5. France's longest border is shared with Brazil

6. States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County

7. Antarctica without ice

8. Global distribution of flamingos

9. Where were the 100 fastest 10,000m runners of all time born?

10. Topography map of Japan🇯🇵

11. Argentina's Official map....

12. Which countries have capybaras

13. The Mediterranean Sea perfectly fits inside Australia.

14. How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama

15. Places where birthright Citizenship is based on land and places where it is based on blood

16. Insane how 2% of the world population just chilling here

17. These three regions make up 50% of world GDP

18. The usual time of eating dinner in Europe

19. The yellow states in the map below are the states in which it is legal to own a RACCOON.

20. Animals Of The World Map

21. Italian dessert

22. Space - without Space

23. Most of the plastic trash in the oceans, Earth’s last sink, flows from land.

24. Chilean and Croatian empires at their greatest extent

25. The most western point in China is closer to Germany than it is to the most eastern point in China

26.The size of the Roman Empire at its height compared to the United States

27. Never knew these big American cities were so close together.

28. USA and Australia fit together almost perfectly.

29. Most common foreign nationals in Japan, by prefecture.

30. Peak of the largest empires in history

It’s pretty insane that the 2 biggest empires in history only overlap in a couple places