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Mongol passport from Yuan dynasty in China, 1200s.

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Whole of Turkey removed from Yandex Maps for a short time.

Fernando Vicente

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Humans never reached New Zealand, it’s uninhabited

Arabic world map, 1989

An incredible planisphere palindrome map by Giacomo Faiella that shows the world both right-side-up (top, blue=water) and upside-down (bottom, blue=land).

ACTION in front of the EU commission, we stand with the Philippines! We demand more than sympathy, we want ambitious climate action from the EU NOW! 40% is not enough!

The answer, to what might...

(made by my sister for her geography class. why geography requires cake i cannot fathom.)

The model also shows that a greater distance between the origin and a possible destination equals more effort to get there. This results in fewer migrants being inclined to travel there. Therefore, despite settlement B in the second diagram being bigger, the origin is closer to A and therefore the migrants are equally distributed between the two settlements.

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an interactive version of William Bunge’s The Continents and Islands of Mankind. The above shows areas in the world where there are at least 15 people per square mile. In the interactive, a slider lets you shift that number up to 500 where only a few spots in the world remain. (via Interactive Islands of Mankind)