Birdseye view of Europe, looking east to west from Moscow (1944) - by Richard Edes Harrison
‘wow it actually looks way better this way!
also spain is a head and italy an arm… of a big hunched-back dinosaur-like creature’–topherette
1895 Ethnographic map of Europe
‘Now the Albanians in nowadays Serbia were deported to Turkey’–Shqiptaria580
German satirical map of Europe from 1914
‘Ireland cutting the chain to the UK is a pretty good prediction given that this was before the Easter Rising’–OccasionallyQuotable
1910 Languages of Central Europe (without borders)
‘Reddish hues are Germanic languages, bluish ones are Romance, green Slavic.
The big light pink blob in the center is High German. To the north of it, darker pink, Low German and, further north and darker, Danish. The reddish hue on the border between Danish and Low German, and also in the Netherlands, is Frisian. Continuing counterclockwise you have Dutch, French, Italian; then purple is probably Friulian, which here is counted as a separate language while things like Lombardian are grouped as dialects of Italian.
Next comes Yugoslavian, including Slovenian and Bosnio-Croat-Montenegro-Serbian. Brown is Hungarian, light green is Slovakian, the green almost entirely surrounded by German is Czech, the green entirely surrounded by German is Sorbian, the green with lots of small German enclaves is Polish. The yellowish tone in the northeast is likely Lithuanian’–eukubernetes
1940s ethnographical map of Central Europe (west sheet)
‘Fantastic. This kind of maps is what I’m here for!’–idlz
1940s ethnographical map of Central Europe (east sheet)
‘One of the most interesting ethnicity maps I have ever seen.
I would love to have something like this for Poland and the Baltics’–rolfk17
1856 Geological map of Europe
‘What a fascinating map! So many interesting details. For example ehy do those red bits (granite?) suddenly stop jyst before they empty into the Caspian Sea? Edit : my bad - Black Sea’–brmmbrmm
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
The Mediterranean Archipelago and the Alp Trench : inverted relief map
‘immediately plants flag in Doggerland’–TheMulattoMaker
1601 Dutch map of Northern Europe - showing Frieslant [Frisland] and Drogeo
‘Good to see the Dutch started their drug addictions early, Scandinavia isn’t doing too well’–GigaVacinator
Apple production in Europe
‘Everyone talks about us but poor Moldova gets ignored smh my head’–Moarice13
Sunday Sun [Sydney] map of western and central Europe from September 10, 1944 - showing areas of Allied progress in red, areas that are still held by the enemy in yellow, and the neutral countries in green
‘Honestly it’s great, but the other page’s insight into life in wartime is quite fascintating too!’–laughingnome2
1919 National Geographic map of the ethnic groups of Europe
‘I’m going to call Ukrainians “Little Russians” from now on, I’m sure that will go wel … I hope you are a boxing champion … A little boxing champion…
Autocomplete - Make [European country] … Again
‘BERALUS CANT SEA CAUSE IT HAS NO EYS … *it has no “I”s … Not yet’
Anticartogram of population density of Europe
‘As an Englishman, I’m now terrified of thick Scotland’–Spectre220600
Rand McNally 1894 Map of Europe
‘In RandMcNally people wear pants in their heads and hamburgers eat people’–Sir-Gummy-Bear
Europe daily mean temperature - March
‘The Mediterranean seems much colder than I thought it was’–farnsmootys
Soviet physical map of Europe (1967)
‘The South hogged the best weather, beaches and half the mountains … Yeah but the north is rich … All I see in North is full stomachs and empty hearts’
World War I Peoples and Language Map of Austria-Hungary
‘If I remember right, before WWI, German communities exited all over Europe, but most of them were forced to move to Germany after WWII’–tomthehipposlayer
Number of People per Library
‘This doesn’t show on the map, but for example in Slovakia (pop. 5,4 mil.), total number of libraries (from the source) is 7,533 of which 1,916 are public libraries (25,4%) and 5,483 are school libraries (72,7%). Compare it to France (pop. 66 mil.) which has apparently only 780 school libraries overall (15,6%) and 3,410 public libraries (68,6%)’–Yralyn
