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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:25:35 JST Information Is Beautiful

Headache-inducing map of the world where only land borders matter
(by Fernando Gómez via @Civixplorer)
https://x.com/Civixplorer/status/2010747261467410503
In conversation about 2 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. A stylized diagram titled “Topological World Map” presenting the countries of the world as a network of adjacent blocks rather than geographically accurate shapes or sizes. The map uses simple beige rectangles and irregular polygons to represent countries, arranged so that shared borders and relative positions are preserved while distances, coastlines, and true proportions are heavily distorted. Large countries such as Russia, Canada, China, the United States, Brazil, and Australia appear as oversized blocks, while smaller nations are shown as much smaller rectangles clustered in their respective regions. Europe is densely packed with many small adjoining shapes, Africa forms a broad central cluster, and Asia stretches across the right side dominated by a large Russia and China. The Americas are arranged on the left with North and South America stacked vertically, while island nations and archipelagos such as those in the Caribbean and Pacific are depicted as small boxes grouped near their regions. Antarctica appears as a long horizontal strip along the bottom. The background is a muted blue representing oceans, which are not mapped precisely but serve as empty space between land clusters. The emphasis of the diagram is on topology, showing which countries border each other, rather than geography, with labels placed inside each shape naming the countries and a small explanatory paragraph at the bottom describing the concept of topological mapping.
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