1914 Japanese pictorial map of Europe, Asia and North Africa
1914 Japanese pictorial map of Europe, Asia and North Africa
‘I do like the sown effect on Africa, as if the Europeans just tied the lands together’
1914 Japanese pictorial map of Europe, Asia and North Africa
‘I do like the sown effect on Africa, as if the Europeans just tied the lands together’
1675 map of Southeast Asia, focusing on the Dutch sphere of interest - by Frederik de Wit
1819 map of Asia and Oceania
‘Interesting it’s still referred to as New Holland with ongoing British colonisation
No. Perth, in Western Australia, was not founded until 10 years after this map, by the British. Also Adelaide in South Australia, and even Melbourne in Eastern Australia.
The east coast of Australia–unmapped by the Dutch–was mapped by James Cook in 1770 and thus known as New South Wales. Sydney was established in 1788. So it’s correct that the other three coasts of Australia were still known as New Holland.
It’s a lesson in how things can be named but not recognised as belonging to a particular power until they are colonised, since actual use of the land supposes an entitlement to it.
The Dutch were great explorers and commercial agents but since they found no commercial use in Australia they didn’t have any need to assert a claim to their discoveries.
Australia is a fascinating lesson in this aspect. The same applies to New Zealand which the Dutch discovered 127 years before Cook fully mapped it on his way to Australia. If the Dutch had behaved differently they would have exerted more influence’
River basins of south & east Asia
‘Kinda wish the Mekong and Yangtze basins were further apart color wise, they almost look like 1 basin at first’
Night light pollution changes in Asia over the last 25 years (red - increase ; yellow - slight increase ; green - no change ; teal - slight decrease ; blue - decrease)
‘You can almost see parts of borders of Maharashtra, MP, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana’
Landform map of Eurasia (1945)
‘Never realised the Urals lined up with those snake like island in the Arctic’
Geographical distribution of Tai-Kadai languages
‘How are the ones in China? Are they dead? Are they alive? Are they “alive”? … Kra doesn’t seem to be hanging on as well as the other ones but generally they have pretty sizable native speaking populations (in/around the millions)’
1820 map of Asia - by Annin & Smith
‘This is a really sensible Europe-Asia division, I must say. I don’t understand why is Bashkiria with its Central Asian affiliations supposed to be in Europe. Nor the historical Pontic-Caspian steppe inhabited by Turkic nomads with an unclear difference from e.g. Kazakh nomads. Just because those lands got settled by a European power and the previous population got removed doesn’t make them European, at least not unless you think East Thrace became West Asian when settled by the Turks’–Humanophage
1856 map of Eurasia River Systems
‘Didn’t notice the title at first & thought it was an alt-history map. You could almost divide the Basins into empires of their own; like in the Atlantic River systems most all of it was controlled by Rome, outside of Scandinavia, Germany, Poland, & Russia’–aces101
1801 Map of Asia
‘Fascinating! Some random observations:
The Caucasus range has scoliosis
The Red Sea is called the “Arabian Gulf” (rather than the bay between Arabia and India, which is unlabelled)
Lake Balkhash is swol
Mongolia includes Xinjiang
The Tarim Basin is called “Little Bucharia”, and Uzbekistan/Tajikistan is called “Great Bucharia”
The Chinese Empire includes Nepal, Bhutan, Korea, Sakhalin, and the mainland coast up to the Strait of Tartary
There are places labelled “Eluths” scattered all over eastern China (edit: apparently “Eluths” was an alternate name for the Oirat)‘–AbouBenAdhem
Tree Cover Density and Human Settlements of south, east, and southeast Asia
“This is such a good one.
Look at Japan, how its almost entirely forested mountains, except the 3 huge urban areas where all the people live.
Compare with China which in the North is completely flat and unforested farmland with a more spread out population. The south of China is more forested and mountainous, which could reflect the cultural and linguistic differences between the more unified north and the diverse south”–Fummy
Bible lands and the cradle of western civilization - 1938 National Geographic map of the Middle East
[9759 x 6878]
South Asia solar energy potential
[10394 x 8503]
East Asia and Pacific solar energy potential
[9449 × 9449]
GDP per capita in Asia (2018)
“GDP per capita is not a direct measure of wealth per person, but the yearly economic output per person per year. However the countries that have a high GDP per capita produce a lot for their populations, and low ones produce little for their population. This does not necessarily measure wealth per person, but can be used for the general idea of which countries have wealthier citizens on average”–some_dawid_guy
Exaggerated Relief Map of Indochina at night
“Maybe probably just call it Southeast Asia”–noisy_goose
“Think Indochina is better - as it refers to Mainland Southeast Asia”–AJgloe