A big part of these creations is not the content but the presentation: the aesthetic sense of the alternate world that the map itself describes. For example, below is an alternate history map that ...

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

These wonderful creations use maps to tell a story that isn’t just about land masses and borders. Cartographers Without Borders, a website run by Branden Rishel, from Bellingham in Washington in the ...

Kwan offers up a kind of alternate map of the real world, evoking an unseen substructure of money and labour that lies beneath the surface of consumer culture. Kwan's Displacement (with Chinese ...

From insight into the chastity of a nation, to how we take care of the trees on this planet - these alternative world maps will turn everything you think you know about Planet Earth, upside down. Step ...

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Imagine a world very different from our ... and cartography to explore alternate history scenarios with beautifully designed maps like the one up top. This particular geopolitical scenario forms ...

But one of the deepest pleasures of alternate histories are their maps. Sometimes these allow stories to unfurl, or complement the hypothetical world of a tale being told. But in many cases ...