A good map is worth a thousand words. A bad one, on the other hand, is just one, and usually a pretty ugly one.
If you've been on Bored Panda long enough, you probably know that we have a soft spot for cartography. After all, we've already covered it here, here, and here.
So when we discovered the social media project 'A Map A Day', we knew we had to make a publication about it too. Run by a cultural geography and tourism student, it regularly shares all sorts of geographical oddities that challenge the way you see the world.
Continue scrolling and see for yourself!
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#1 Most-Used Word In Each State
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#2 Closeness Over Time
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#3 Day And Night In Barcelona
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#4 Visual Guide To Geographic Terms
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#5 Sharks vs. Humans. (2014)
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#6 Cause Of Death - Reality vs. Google vs. Media
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#7 A Chart Illustrating Gerrymandering In Its Most Basic Form
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#8 Land Use Comparison Of A Typical European City And A North American City
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#9 Clouds Flow Past Mt. Fuji, Japan
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#10 The Many Flags Inside Norway’s Flag
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#11 Wind Blown Patches Of Snow Cause A 3D Effect In Eastern Colorado
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#12 Global Distribution Of Penguins
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#13 Detailed Replica Of Manhattan Carved Out In A 2.5 Tonne Block Of Marble
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#14 The Timeline Of A Tree
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#15 The North American Cryptid Map
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#16 Using The Statue Of Liberty To ‘Map’ How Copper Goes Through The Oxidation Process
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#17 When Two City Planners Hate Each Other (Missoula, Montana)
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#18 A Guide To Chicago Home Styles
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#19 A Bar In Dc Made A Us Map From One Summer's Confiscated Fake Id's
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#20 How To Read Tree Rings. The Color And Width Of Tree Rings Can Provide Snapshots Of Past Climate Conditions
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#21 Eight Minimalist Maps
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#22 How The Solar System Travels Through The Galaxy
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#23 Aerial View Of The Planned City Of La Plata, Argentina
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#24 ‘Nobody Lives Here’, 1x1km Areas In The United Kingdom Where The Reported Population Equals Zero
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#25 The United Pixels Of America
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#26 States With A Smaller Population Than Los Angeles County
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#27 Venice, Italy, Which Is Situated Upon 118 Small Islands Separated By Canals And Linked By Bridges
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#28 The Arc De Triomphe At The Center Of 12 Radiating Avenues In Paris, France
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#29 Victoria Peak (Hong Kong), Carved Onto A Roll Of Tape
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#30 Everyone In The World Could Fit Into A 50km Diameter Circle
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#31 Train Cars Filled With Coal On Lambert's Point Pier 6 In Norfolk, Virginia
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#32 Six Ways To Divide British Accents
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#33 Comparing Shipping Routes Through History: Before And After The Construction Of The Panama And Suez Canals
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#34 Famous Artworks Of European Nations
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#35 Central Park, New York Seen From Above
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#36 Geologic Time Scale
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#37 A Tour Through All Contiguous United States
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#38 How Herd Immunity Works
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#39 The Boundary Between Scottsdale, Arizona, USA And The Salt River Indian Reservation
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#40 Culinary Map Of Europe According To Italy
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#41 Paths Of 800 Unmanned Bicycles Being Pushed Until They Fall Over
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#42 Separated At Birth - Similarities In Geographic Shapes
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#43 Sad Topography
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#44 Fixing The United States Borders
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#45 All The Time Zones Of The World Without A Basemap
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#46 Central Park, Manhattan Aerial View
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#47 Different Biomes At Varying Temperatures And Levels Of Humidity
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#48 Waves Of The Pacific Ocean Rolling Into Shore In Antofagasta, Chile
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#49 Europe If Sea Levels Rise A Couple Hundred Metres
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#50 If I Could Live Anywhere, I Would Choose The Example Map From Geography Books That Explains What Everything Is Called
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#51 Gps Tracking Of Different Wolf Packs In Voyageurs National Park Minnesota Shows The Territoriality Of Wolves
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#52 World Population Percentages (2017)
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#53 Simplified American Skylines
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#54 Trucks At The Port Of Los Angeles
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#55 Great Salt Lake, Utah
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#56 World Map In Mario Style
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#57 A Map Of The Continental USA Made Of 550 Pounds Of Cast-Iron Skillets
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#58 The Smallest Country vs. The Tallest Building
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#59 What Is The Roundest Country?
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#60 Greece - The Series
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#61 Abstract Map Of The World In The Style Of Piet Mondrian
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#62 Map Of Space Without The Space
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#63 Visualizing The Height Of The World’s Tallest Tree
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#64 The Plaza Del Ejecutivo In The Venustiano Carranza District Of Mexico City, Mexico
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#65 Location Of Every City Founded By The Roman Empire Outside Of Italy
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#66 You Can Theoretically Drive In A Straight Line From Anchorage To Miami Without Crossing Over Any Major Body Of Water Due To The Curvature Of The Earth
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#67 The Contiguous United States Compared To Various Places
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#68 The Cafeteria Menu Designer’s Guide To Stereotypical Fonts
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#69 A Different Form Of “Mind Mapping”. Instagrammer @zaaakk Had 30 People Draw A Map Of The World From Memory And Digitally Merged The Results
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#70 Points In The Red Section Are Closer To Somewhere In Texas Than The Opposite Sides Of Texas Are To Each Other
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#71 Greenland Extends Farther East, West, North, And South Than Iceland
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#72 Historical And Present Day Range Of The African Lion
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#73 Geologic Time
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#74 Landlocked States, Provinces And Territories Of North America
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#75 The Dutch Holiday Diaspora: A Map Of The Roads Dutch People Use For Their Holidays. Every Blue Dot Is One Person Using A Traffic App
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#76 America’s Most Searched “How To Spell” Per State
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#77 London Underground Map As Seen From Above, With Additional Tube Schematic Maps
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#78 California As Seen By La
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#79 Texas Fits Into Queensland Very Neatly. (True To Scale, Corrected For Projection Distortion)
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#80 Cars Winding Down The Hill Of Lombard Street In San Francisco, California. With Eight Hairpin Turns Dispersed Over A One-Block Section In The Russian Hill Neighborhood, Lombard Is Often Referred To As “The Most Crooked Street In The World”
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#81 If America Were 50 States Of Equal Population Broken Up By Longitude
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#82 The Gastrointestinal System Represented As A Subway Map
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#83 The Flag Of The United States Through History
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#84 Chicago To Chicagoans
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#85 “Australia Arise! Save Her From This Shame!” A First World War Propaganda Map Showing A German Australia
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#86 A Cheat Sheet For Figuring Out Where In The United States You Are By Recognizing The Background From Movies
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#87 United States Passport Ownership
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#88 The Coastline Paradox
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#89 Minimalist Map Of The Contiguous United States
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#90 The Us Separated Into Distinct Regions
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#91 Countries For The Americas By The Largest Foreign Nationality
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#92 Virginia’s Territorial Claims Over The Years
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#93 You Guys vs. Y’all In The United States
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#94 9 Ways To Divide Colorado
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#95 T-O Map Of The World
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#96 Map Of Every American And Every European City
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