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 Using The Statue Of Liberty To ‘Map’ How Copper Goes Through The Oxidation Process

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#2 Cause Of Death – Reality vs. Google vs. Media

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#3 Closeness Over Time

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#4 Most-Used Word In Each State

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#5 Day And Night In Barcelona

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#6 Global Distribution Of Penguins

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#7 Wind Blown Patches Of Snow Cause A 3D Effect In Eastern Colorado

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#8 The Timeline Of A Tree

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#9 When Two City Planners Hate Each Other (Missoula, Montana)

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#10 The North American Cryptid Map

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#11 Detailed Replica Of Manhattan Carved Out In A 2.5 Tonne Block Of Marble

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#12 Sharks vs. Humans. (2014)

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#13 The United Pixels Of America

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#14 ‘Nobody Lives Here’, 1x1km Areas In The United Kingdom Where The Reported Population Equals Zero

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#15 Land Use Comparison Of A Typical European City And A North American City

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#16 How To Read Tree Rings. The Color And Width Of Tree Rings Can Provide Snapshots Of Past Climate Conditions

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#17 Aerial View Of The Planned City Of La Plata, Argentina

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#18 The Many Flags Inside Norway’s Flag

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#19 Clouds Flow Past Mt. Fuji, Japan

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#20 Eight Minimalist Maps

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#21 Venice, Italy, Which Is Situated Upon 118 Small Islands Separated By Canals And Linked By Bridges

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#22 A Chart Illustrating Gerrymandering In Its Most Basic Form

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#23 Comparing Shipping Routes Through History: Before And After The Construction Of The Panama And Suez Canals

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#24 Everyone In The World Could Fit Into A 50km Diameter Circle

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#25 States With A Smaller Population Than Los Angeles County

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#26 A Guide To Chicago Home Styles

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#27 The Arc De Triomphe At The Center Of 12 Radiating Avenues In Paris, France

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#28 Famous Artworks Of European Nations

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#29 Visual Guide To Geographic Terms

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#30 How The Solar System Travels Through The Galaxy

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#31 Train Cars Filled With Coal On Lambert’s Point Pier 6 In Norfolk, Virginia

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#32 Victoria Peak (Hong Kong), Carved Onto A Roll Of Tape

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#33 Separated At Birth – Similarities In Geographic Shapes

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#34 Six Ways To Divide British Accents

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#35 A Bar In Dc Made A Us Map From One Summer’s Confiscated Fake Id’s

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#36 Sad Topography

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#37 Europe If Sea Levels Rise A Couple Hundred Metres

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#38 A Tour Through All Contiguous United States

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#39 Geologic Time Scale

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#40 A Map Of The Continental USA Made Of 550 Pounds Of Cast-Iron Skillets

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#41 If I Could Live Anywhere, I Would Choose The Example Map From Geography Books That Explains What Everything Is Called

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#42 Paths Of 800 Unmanned Bicycles Being Pushed Until They Fall Over

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#43 World Map In Mario Style

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#44 All The Time Zones Of The World Without A Basemap

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#45 Great Salt Lake, Utah

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#46 Central Park, New York Seen From Above

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#47 How Herd Immunity Works

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#48 The Plaza Del Ejecutivo In The Venustiano Carranza District Of Mexico City, Mexico

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#49 Map Of Space Without The Space

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#50 Central Park, Manhattan Aerial View

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#51 The Smallest Country vs. The Tallest Building

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#52 Location Of Every City Founded By The Roman Empire Outside Of Italy

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#53 World Population Percentages (2017)

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#54 The Boundary Between Scottsdale, Arizona, USA And The Salt River Indian Reservation

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#55 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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#56 Trucks At The Port Of Los Angeles

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#57 Culinary Map Of Europe According To Italy

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#58 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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#59 Fixing The United States Borders

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#60 Different Biomes At Varying Temperatures And Levels Of Humidity

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#61 What Is The Roundest Country?

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#62 Waves Of The Pacific Ocean Rolling Into Shore In Antofagasta, Chile

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#63 The Contiguous United States Compared To Various Places

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#64 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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#65 California As Seen By La

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#66 Simplified American Skylines

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#67 Abstract Map Of The World In The Style Of Piet Mondrian

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#68 Greenland Extends Farther East, West, North, And South Than Iceland

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#69 Gps Tracking Of Different Wolf Packs In Voyageurs National Park Minnesota Shows The Territoriality Of Wolves

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#70 Geologic Time

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#71 The Gastrointestinal System Represented As A Subway Map

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#72 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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#73 Visualizing The Height Of The World’s Tallest Tree

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#74 Chicago To Chicagoans

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#75 Landlocked States, Provinces And Territories Of North America

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#76 Texas Fits Into Queensland Very Neatly. (True To Scale, Corrected For Projection Distortion)

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#77 London Underground Map As Seen From Above, With Additional Tube Schematic Maps

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#78 Greece – The Series

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#79 If America Were 50 States Of Equal Population Broken Up By Longitude

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#80 America’s Most Searched “How To Spell” Per State

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#81 Historical And Present Day Range Of The African Lion

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#82 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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#83 Minimalist Map Of The Contiguous United States

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#84 “Australia Arise! Save Her From This Shame!” A First World War Propaganda Map Showing A German Australia

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#85 The Us Separated Into Distinct Regions

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#86 United States Passport Ownership

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#87 Virginia’s Territorial Claims Over The Years

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#88 A Cheat Sheet For Figuring Out Where In The United States You Are By Recognizing The Background From Movies

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#89 The Cafeteria Menu Designer’s Guide To Stereotypical Fonts

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#90 The Flag Of The United States Through History

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#91 You Guys vs. Y’all In The United States

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#92 Countries For The Americas By The Largest Foreign Nationality

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#93 The Coastline Paradox

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#94 9 Ways To Divide Colorado

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#95 Map Of Every American And Every European City

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#96 T-O Map Of The World

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