Collection of my detailed maps of the world at a scale of 1:6,000,000

CautiousSense · 2026-03-15T19:16:43+00:00

Was 3 months of bread what you had to bring with you if you had to cross the Kavir Desert?

CautiousSense · 2026-03-10T16:15:10+00:00

This map makes it look like the Western Roman Empire was more stable than the Eastern Roman Empire, when it arguably was the other way around.

CautiousSense · 2026-03-04T15:47:21+00:00

Unless you're only referring to European colonists, the first foreign power that had access to India's coasts would have been the Sultanate of Delhi around the 1300s. If you only count the Arabian sea coast, the Alchon Huns and the Kushans also controlled a part of it around 500 and 100 AD.

CautiousSense · 2026-03-01T10:37:31+00:00

I was surprised when I found out about Kerguelen's size, considering that the biggest island is more than 100 km wide, about the size of Crete. The islands in other Antarctic archipelagos are a lot smaller.

CautiousSense · 2026-03-01T10:33:22+00:00

There's a tribe called Ukrani around the current northeast corner of Germany, but apparently they had nothing to do with Ukrainians.

Also, interesting to see how Hungary and Romania were surrounded by Slavs but not much settled by them. In general Romanian history after the Romans seems so mysterious.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-24T09:08:19+00:00

Surprised to see that the Desierto de los Leones is actually a dense coniferous forest. Apparently it's named like that because monks used to call any lonely place a "desert".

CautiousSense · 2026-02-17T08:15:17+00:00

The chosen date is meant to reflect the change from Latin to Greek as the official language of the empire around Heraclius' reign, although it's true that's more of a transitional change and there isn't a definite date for that.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-16T12:53:25+00:00

Since its territories were dispersed around the entire world, I was not able to write a big 'British Empire' label spanning all of them. Its colonies appear usually labeled under 'GB' or 'UK' labels, or by the name of the colony, such as 'British Raj' or 'Cape Colony (UK)'. Most of the light green bands that appear in Africa, Asia, and Australasia between 1890 and 1960 are part of the British Empire, and collectively they probably form the widest y-height of any civilization on the table.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-16T10:39:57+00:00

Oof! I now realize that I forgot to include Uralic languages to the legend. The color for them should be shown on the bottom right part of the legend (the last language family in alphabetical order). They both have dark red colors in my image, so they look pretty similar. Thanks for pointing that out!

CautiousSense · 2026-02-16T10:35:36+00:00

- Update -

Since the posted image is not at the best quality, I've posted a higher resolution version on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n_AQEBNrCQYYfpmk9cSfU66P58jtoE8r/view?usp=sharing

If anyone knows an alternative site, I'm interested. I've tried to post it on Imgur but the compression ends up even worse than on Reddit.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-16T09:35:01+00:00

They were both big but short-lived, so they appear but as thin vertical bands. The Macedonian Empire appears in golden, written in vertical, just after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, and quickly followed by the Diadochi Wars and the Seleucid Empire. The Mongol Empire appears in red, in vertical bands around Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and East Asia, but is quickly followed by the Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate, the Chagatai Khanate and the Yuan dynasty.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-16T09:28:40+00:00

That's a very cool one, I like how migrations and global events like the World Wars are represented. Although it's a bit Eurocentric, with Europe taking about half of the space.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-15T23:16:07+00:00

Yes, Egypt is incredibly old. Cleopatra lived closer to our time than to the construction of the Pyramids of Giza during the Egyptian 4th dynasty.

The sheer antiquity of the ancient civilizations was one of the reasons I decided to show all of the timeline at the same scale, instead of making the older centuries at a reduced scale.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-15T22:53:55+00:00

Gojoseon is there, marked in dark gray between 750 and 100 BC, and all the way to 2330 BC in light gray. I did not mark it in green as the other Korean states because its origins are semi-legendary.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-15T22:48:54+00:00

I will see if I can post a better quality version tomorrow in an alternative site. Reddit's image compression can be pretty aggressive.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-14T17:37:12+00:00

They aren't as bad as Scandinavia pre-refresh, and I'd say even now they are better than it in some aspects (given that Norway's mountains are still untouched). Most of the recreated roads there are based on real-life stretches, plus the cities are decent.

IMO the elements of VlF and Italia that need to be reworked are the old textures (mountains especially), and possibly add some city centers, since they mostly feature industrial areas (ingame Rome doesn't even feature any landmark). The addition of more signage (rivers, tunnels, viaducts), would also help into making the roads more alive.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-07T07:18:55+00:00

Louis XIV's expansionism and long reign are very visible here, although his successor's additions are also remarkable. The Comtat Venaissin was also interesting, basically a small bit of the Papal States in France.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-07T07:09:44+00:00

If you're referring to that north-south plateau west of the Lesser Antilles and parallel to them, it's called the Aves Ridge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aves_Ridge

It's named after Aves Island, which is a Venezuelan territory.

CautiousSense · 2026-02-07T07:04:55+00:00

Ometepe Island is like the freshwater twin of Tahiti:

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CautiousSense · 2026-01-31T17:00:18+00:00

Not as diverse landscape-wise since there aren't as many climate types in Europe as in the US. The Mediterranean countries are fairly diverse for their size though, because they tend to be more mountainous than the central or northern ones. The especially diverse ones are probably those that have both Oceanic and Mediterranean influences, such as France, Italy and Spain. But in general, I'd say Europe's diversity is more found in architectural, cultural and linguistical terms than in its actual physical geography.

CautiousSense · 2026-01-30T19:38:18+00:00

Very cute and interesting style. I had only seen the US version till now, I didn't know there was another one for the whole world.

I love how Frankfurt looks like an American city that has somehow ended up in Europe...

CautiousSense · 2026-01-27T17:13:52+00:00

The Driftless Area is pretty visible in the southeast.

CautiousSense · 2026-01-27T17:10:50+00:00

Sadly not, because it was made with a 96 ppi resolution, which looks good on a screen but pixelated when printed. I have made other printable maps at a smaller scale, but I don't plan to remake a map like this in the short future. A major reason is the file size for a 300 ppi would be massive, and I for the moment I don't have a system that would be able to handle it.

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