Map Enthusiasts

The work titled "La Guerre Du Petrole" by Jacques Mercier, dated around 1940, is a newspaper map published by Desfossés Neogravure. The map measures 41 cm in width and 56 cm in height and is part of a series created for the French magazine "7 Jours." This map highlights the geopolitics of oil during World War II, focusing on regions such as Iran, Iraq, and Russia.

You can find a higher resultion version of this map here.

Pictorial map of India, depicting adventures of the character Corto Maltese. Also shows indigenous territories, cities, routes, topography, deserts, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Relief shown pictorially. Features illustrations of people, animals and plants. Includes numerous inset maps of various types, as well as images of stamps and other ephemera surrounding the continent. With vignette portraits of historical and literary figures, such as Sinbad il marinaio [Sinbad the Sailor]. Descriptive text throughout, including notes on colonial explorations.

Higher resolution version of the image available here

Northern Ireland: "Welcome to hell, lads!"

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251124-1

I found this map here and wanted to share.

https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/115577125667963390

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/asia-pacific/south-korea-us-alliance-china/

Roman roads mapped at https://itiner-e.org/

I enjoy these older infographic style maps. This one focuses on the newly founded Arab League. It's just something about that look that I find really enjoyable.

The high resolution image is available from David Rumsey.

Back when Flight maps looked detailed and well designed instead of boring and informative. If you want to look at the map in even higher resolution, it's available here.

Source: https://jakubmarian.com/year-and-method-of-last-execution-by-country-in-europe/

A few years ago, I read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, which gives a deterministic explanation of why civilizations have progressed the way they have. Among the factors that Diamond cites as determining the fate of a societies is latitude(how far North or South a location is). Locations with equal latitude have equal length days and often similar climates, suitability for crops, etc...

This map, originally created by Beardsley Klamm, has been circulating around the internet and shows some surprising comparisons between where European and North American cities in terms of latitude(eg: Rome is North of Denver).

Communist Rep. of Turkey (with a autonomous zone for the Laz)

Kurdish Socialist Republic

Iranian Socialist Union

United Arab Socialist Republics (with an autonomous region for the druse)

Republic of Cyprus (Fully closed off to the world, they say it’s cus “they are the last bastion of neoliberal euro-socialist hellanic democracy” or whatever)