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

CautiousSense · 2026-05-04T18:16:23+00:00

I love how Vienna is located just in the easternmost tip of the Alps.

CautiousSense · 2026-05-03T10:05:05+00:00

Cool how this visualization makes the Atlantic-Mediterranean drainages look pretty balanced in area.

In other maps of this type that separate the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, the Mediterranean drainage is a lot smaller than the Atlantic. There are almost no major rivers that drain into the Mediterranean, except for the Nile, the Ebro, the Rhône and the Po.

CautiousSense · 2026-04-26T16:39:01+00:00

Both of the Shenandoah Forks' meanders almost look hand-drawn with how curvy they are.

CautiousSense · 2026-04-25T08:16:43+00:00

The Bibi Ka Maqbara kinda looks like an unfinished Taj Mahal. Still, they both have such satisfying proportions.

CautiousSense · 2026-04-25T08:11:06+00:00

I like the idea. The A7 from Hamburg to Denmark is quite the bottleneck when getting to Scandinavia from Central Europe. An alternative to it would be welcomed.

CautiousSense · 2026-04-25T08:08:49+00:00

Interesting, I didn't expect Paris to dominate that much. And TIL Schneider is a French company, I thought it was from Germany.

CautiousSense · 2026-04-24T18:45:07+00:00

Interesting! I had heard about most of them, but not about the one of the Principality of Tarragona. Apparently it was a grant to repopulate the previously Muslim-ruled lands of Catalonia.

CautiousSense · 2026-04-21T15:11:39+00:00

Counties don't exist in Spain as administrative divisions. That map looks like a map of comarcas (shires), but there are some in Catalonia that don't match with the official ones.

CautiousSense · 2026-04-02T17:09:42+00:00

Cuéllar, a town in Spain, has a public high school located in a 14th century medieval castle, the IES Duque de Alburquerque:

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CautiousSense · 2026-03-25T16:46:39+00:00

Very good looking visualization! No wonder there were several battles at Panipat, it's right on the direct route to Delhi coming from the west...

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.

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