Explore the world through interactive maps.
Move through places, stories and ideas at your own pace. Every exhibit opens directly in your browser and invites you to explore the world through geography, data and visual discovery.
Where Films Are Made
Follow cinema from filming locations to major studios, international festivals and the countries producing feature films around the world.
Explore the full mapWhere Are the World’s Biolabs?
Explore 85 laboratory entries in 31 countries, discover which viruses and bacteria they study, and read their sources and selected news.
Explore the full mapGlobal Tropical Cyclones
Explore the global geography and historical paths of tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons across the world’s ocean basins.
Explore the full mapCringe Maps
World maps can look authoritative while their geometry, centre, orientation or data changes the world they appear to describe. These experiments make those choices visible.
The Mercator Horror Show
Mercator turns familiar geography into a sharp demonstration of how dramatically a world map can enlarge places near the poles.
Explore the full mapThe World with South Up
Place south at the top and watch a familiar planet become strange, even though every country remains in the same geographic position.
Explore the full mapThe World Tilted 45° East
Rotate the world 45 degrees east and see how quickly north, balance and geographic familiarity begin to feel unstable.
Explore the full mapThe World Tilted 45° West
Rotate the world 45 degrees west and examine how orientation influences the visual hierarchy of continents and oceans.
Explore the full mapThe Spilhaus World Ocean Map
See the connected World Ocean as the central geographic space, with the continents arranged around its edges.
Explore the full mapThe Butterfly World
An interrupted world projection opens the globe into a butterfly-like form and reduces distortion by dividing the oceans.
Explore the full mapThe Dymaxion World
Fuller’s Dymaxion map unfolds the globe across an icosahedron and presents the continents as a nearly continuous island.
Explore the full mapThe Mercator Size Illusion
Compare apparent and actual country sizes to see why Mercator makes Greenland, Canada and Russia look far larger than they are.
Explore the full mapThe World According to Antarctica
Centre the map on Antarctica and examine a planet organised around the southern polar region.
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Reframe the planet through connected marine space, where oceans form the main geography and continents become interruptions.
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Resize countries according to population and compare political territory with the distribution of the people who inhabit it.
Explore the full mapThe World According to the Arctic
Look outward from the Arctic and see how closely North America, Europe and Asia meet around the northern ocean.
Explore the full mapThe World According to Your Location
Let your own location define the centre and observe how every world map can begin somewhere different.
Explore the full mapThe World in a Square
Force the spherical Earth into a square and inspect the distortion required to make the planet fit a simple frame.
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Reconstruct the world inside a triangle and make the geometry of projection impossible to overlook.
Explore the full mapThe World Seen from the Pacific
Move the Pacific to the centre and replace the familiar Atlantic-centred view with the planet’s largest ocean.
Explore the full mapThe World Sized by Tourism
Resize countries according to international tourism and see which destinations occupy the largest space in global travel.
Explore the full mapThe World Sized by Wikipedia Attention
Resize countries through Wikipedia attention and compare geographic area with the uneven geography of online interest.
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Remove the privileged upward direction and explore a world whose orientation changes as freely as the globe itself.
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Remove state borders and examine how coastlines, relief and settlement patterns shape the world without political outlines.
Explore the full mapAll Maps
Continue through the complete collection of interactive maps, spanning culture, history, science, society, transport and the changing Earth.
Museums of the World
A global atlas of museums, collections and places of memory. Filter by theme, wander across continents, or simply choose somewhere unexpected.
Explore the full mapWhat Year Is It Around the World?
Travel across calendar systems and discover how the same moment belongs to different years in different parts of the world.
Explore the full mapThe Biggest Earthquakes in 2025
Examine the year’s most powerful earthquakes, their magnitude, location and global tectonic context.
Explore the full mapGeographic Coordinates: Latitude and Longitude
Explore the geographic grid and see how latitude and longitude describe every position on Earth.
Explore the full map50 Questions Geography Quiz
Test your geographic knowledge through fifty questions covering places, landscapes and the patterns of our planet.
Explore the full mapThe Geography of the Number 67
Follow one number across coordinates, roads, calling codes and places connected by an unexpected geographic thread.
Explore the full mapTerritories with Special Status
Explore territories whose political, administrative or international status differs from that of ordinary sovereign states.
Explore the full map20 Satellite Image Interpretation Challenges
Read shape, texture, colour and context across twenty satellite scenes, then locate each landscape on the map.
Explore the full mapWorld News Media Map
Explore hundreds of official, national and public news media outlets across the world and open their websites directly from the map.
Explore the full mapTravel the World Through Music
Travel through a colourful musical atlas and follow sounds, traditions and recordings across regions of the world.
Explore the full mapPaths of Tornadoes Across the United States
Trace tornado paths across the United States and examine where destructive storms have repeatedly crossed the landscape.
Explore the full mapEarth Upside Down
Turn the familiar world map upside down and reconsider how orientation shapes the way we picture the planet.
Explore the full mapGlobal Cell Tower Density
Explore the uneven density of mobile communication infrastructure and the human geography visible through cell-tower networks.
Explore the full mapEarth at Night
Follow the glow of settlements, roads and economic activity across the planet using nighttime satellite imagery.
Explore the full mapSubmarine Internet Cables
See the submarine cable network that carries most intercontinental digital communication beneath the oceans.
Explore the full mapSea Routes of Global Trade
Follow the maritime corridors that connect ports, markets and production regions across the world economy.
Explore the full mapA World History of Writing and Books
Move through places connected with writing systems, books, printing and the preservation of human knowledge.
Explore the full mapProtected Areas of the World
Explore the worldwide distribution of protected areas and the landscapes set aside for biodiversity and conservation.
Explore the full mapNATO: Members, Expansion and Headquarters
Examine NATO’s member countries, successive rounds of enlargement and the geography of its principal institutions.
Explore the full mapTotal Solar Eclipse of 2 August 2027
Follow the path of totality on 2 August 2027 and explore eclipse conditions across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Explore the full mapThe Real World of Pippi Longstocking
Discover the real places woven into Astrid Lindgren’s improbable world and the journeys hidden inside Pippi Longstocking’s stories.
Explore the full mapAll F1 Drivers 1950 – Now
Explore every Formula 1 driver across the championship’s history and see how careers, eras and generations overlap from 1950 to today.
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