29 maps that will allow you to look at the world differently (30 photos)

Maps exist not only to see which rivers flow into the Caspian Sea or where Eritrea is located. Sometimes they allow us to look at the world from a completely different angle and learn something unexpected: for example, which countries have more sheep than people, or which nation considers itself the most cultural in the world. The account “I [really] love cards” with more than 36 thousand subscribers is dedicated to such cards.





1. The world through the eyes of a fish



2. As part of the fight against desertification in the Sahel, the African Union led an initiative to plant the Great Green Wall, a 7,775-kilometer strip of trees across northern Africa.





3. This map illustrates the network of famous Roman roads



4. Pluto's size compared to Australia



5. Cartographers before the invention of AutoCAD or GIS, 1950-1980.



6. Argentina's size compared to Europe



7. There are only 22 countries left in the world that were never invaded by Great Britain (marked in grey)



These are Andorra, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Guatemala, Cote d'Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan , Uzbekistan and the Vatican.

8. All roads lead to Rome



9. Population density in the USA



10. Map of animals of the world



11. Income inequality compared to the USA, Gini coefficient. Green - the indicator is lower than in the USA, red - higher



12. Distribution of the wolf in Italy, 1900-2020.



13. La Plata, Argentina, view from above



14. The principle of acquiring citizenship in the world. Blue - "right of the land", red - "right of blood"



“Law of the land” is the principle of acquiring citizenship, according to which citizenship is determined by place of birth and is not related to the citizenship of the parents. According to the “right of blood”, the citizenship of a child depends on the citizenship of the parents, regardless of the territory of which state he was born and the territory of which state the parents themselves live.

15. Between Liberia and China there is a straight line of more than 13,500 km that never crosses an ocean or major body of water



16. Where people from different countries dream of going on vacation



TOP 5: Italy (blue-green), Spain (orange), Australia (purple), Greece (yellow), France (blue).

16. 50% of Canada's population lives south of the red line



18. The Mediterranean Sea fits perfectly into Australia



19. River basins in Italy



20. Proportion of people in Europe who described themselves as “very happy” in 2018



21. How many people believe that their country’s culture is superior to others?



22. Surname "Smith" in other European languages



23. Population density in the Middle East (fragment around Turkey and Syria)



24. Map based on 280,000 logbook entries shows where ships sailed from 1740 to 1855



All entries and separately England (red), Netherlands (orange), Spain (green) and France (blue)

25.Countries with more sheep than people



26. You can walk from Cape Town to Magadan in 4,492 hours



27. Map of European desserts



28. How did residents of different countries answer the question: “Relations with which countries do you value most?”



29. Which countries would Europeans like to immigrate to?