20 Amazing Maps That Show Us Things We Never Thought About (22 Photos)
We present to your attention 20 cards, each of which reveals one interesting and often unexpected fact that can cause a wow-cool reaction even from those people who are indifferent to what capital is Paris and whether the shores of Pluto are washed by the Pacific Ocean.
1. All lighthouses in Europe
2. This is how big the Pacific Ocean is: it can fit all the continents + Greenland
3. All cities with a population of 15,000 inhabitants or more
4. Alphabets of Europe: Cyrillic, Latin, Greek and the Crimean Tatar alphabet
5. Regions where the water depth is sufficient for a submarine to be located in them are indicated in blue.
6. Map of Antarctica without ice
7. The longest straight line along which you can move on land without going under water
8. Regions marked with different colors have the same number of people living in them.
9. World map of lakes
10. The unexpected similarity of the contours of Ireland and South Korea
11. Political map of the world, assuming that the supercontinent Pangea would still exist
12. All the roads that lead to Rome
13. The blue and red regions of Brazil have the same number of people living in them.
14. All railway tracks, roads, streets and highways in Canada
15. Map of tropical rainforests of the world
16. Fun fact: purely geographically, Ireland is further north than Northern Ireland
17. But Greenland managed to be located north, west, east and south of Iceland
18. Map of world-famous companies originating from Japan
19. Water transport density map
20. If the vegetation on the planet emitted light like night cities
Bonus: The world's largest world map. Meppen, Germany
