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388 – US States As Countries of Equal Population

At last, the worlds of cartography, vexillology and population statistics meet! This map was inspired by earlier maps of the US, with its states renamed for countries with a similar GDP (see posts #131 and #135). It shows each US state covered by the flag of a country with a population...

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strange maps — June 06 09

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387 – The Graveyard of the Atlantic

I had never heard of Fagunda. A 17th-century map places it in the North Atlantic, not far from Estotiland, Bus and Frislant. These and other so-called phantom islands were a by-product of the Age of Discovery. They started out as errors of nautical observation, and lived on as cartographic misco...

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strange maps — June 02 09

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386 – My Kingdom for a Beer? Heineken’s “Eurotopia”

Freddy Heineken (1923-2002), the Dutch tycoon who made his beer into a global brand, also was a dedicated Europhile. Towards the end of his life, he proposed reshuffling Europe’s national borders to strengthen the supranational project whose stated goal is an “ever closer union&rdquo...

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strange maps — May 26 09

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385 – Pogue States: A Celtocentric World Map

As seemed to be the rule in those days, Shane MacGowan’s stage appearance was over in minutes. After incomprehensibly muttering the lyrics to a new song, a couple of roadies carried off the singer, who was much too drunk to make it to the end of the set – or the back of the stag...

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strange maps — May 25 09

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384 – Does My Metro Area Look Big in this Ring Road?

In London Orbital, writer, walker and Londoner Iain Sinclair approaches his favourite subject – his home town – by circumambulating it. The book details his trek along the M25, London’s ring road. Sinclair completes the 117 mile (188 km) journey in 592 pages, which works out to...

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strange maps — May 24 09

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383 – The Obfuscated Giants of Brobdingnag

“Having been condemned by Nature and Fortune to an active and restless Life, in two Months after my Return I again left my native Country, and took Shipping in the Downs on the 20th Day of June 1702, in the Adventure, Capt. John Nicholas, a Cornish Man, Commander, bound for S...

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strange maps — May 18 09