The spce where everyone can post and discuss maps, whatever they may be!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/726492 > Hey, united Ireland though. Small victories?
> Our world is home to a magnificent variety of plants and animals and cultures and languages. But (in)human activity has increased the species extinction rate to 10,000 times the historically normal rate, and of the planet’s 7,000 languages, most are predicted to go silent in the next century. This is the biocultural extinction crisis – the converging losses of biodiversity and cultural diversity that will forever change our world unless we act now. Source: The Decolonial Atlus: https://kolektiva.social/@decolonialatlas/108822356455332478
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented and marginalised nations and peoples worldwide. Source article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrepresented_Nations_and_Peoples_Organization
http://www.jerrysmap.com/
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Illustrates [the relevant Wondermark](http://wondermark.com/c1179b/) depressingly well. I despair at the idea that correcting incorrect facts is enough.
[Source](https://www.statista.com/chart/9261/which-side-of-the-road-do-you-drive-on/)
This is a render of a normal paper map showing the geology of Iran created by @geo_spatialist on Twitter. Iran has a dark history of CIA and MI6 involvement which lead to the coup d'état against him -- after he had implemented policies that threatened the profits of British Petroleum.
As you can see the vast majority of Canada's population lives very close to the U.S border. The reason why Alberta and Saskatchewan have so many roads in a grid pattern is due to the farming and ranching that happens in these provinces, with perpendicular roads crossing through the different plots of land.
Lake Chad is one of the many endangered bodies of water around the world. As a result of water over-use due to agriculture, the size of the lake was rapidly shrinking, however, in the past 10 years, statellites have noticed a modest growth in the Lake's size. Let's hope that this new trend will continue, otherwise 10s of millions of people will be left without access to fresh water in an otherwise arid region. If you'd like to read more about the lake, check out it's [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad)!
Japan has a very interesting geography. On one hand you have massive mountains that are very steep, and suddenly you drop to these extremely-flat plains that are close to sea-level. On the central part of Honshu island (the biggest Japanese island), there is the Kansai plain, the largest city here is Osaka. Towards the east, you can see the Kanto plain which is also home to a massive population, and the largest city in the world by metropolitan population -- Tokyo (pop. 37,274,000). The vast majority of Japan's 100+ million people live in these relatively small and flat plains.
For anyone wondering, the small red spot in North-Western Florida is a nature refuge which contains some extremly rare species of plants.
As you can see, the Green Belt zones are the only things keeping England from becoming one big & continous urban sprawl of cities from South London all the way to Liverpool. :office building: :deciduous tree: :office building: