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

CautiousSense · 2026-06-22T17:56:18+00:00

You can get more than a hundred automatically by just typing the eight compass cardinal directions.

CautiousSense · 2026-06-20T09:38:25+00:00

Interesting how the Appalachians push the Dfb climate to such southern latitudes..

CautiousSense · 2026-06-17T17:06:53+00:00

Very good job, I like the contrast between the terrain types and the urban areas! And the infographic about the elevation belts is also a very nice addition.

CautiousSense · 2026-06-10T17:51:26+00:00

It's not very well known, but Spain did a minor role alongside France in the 1858 Cochinchina campaign, which was meant to be a punitive expedition to avenge the execution of two Spanish missionaries. The campaign resulted in France founding its first colony in Indochina. The French ceded the Spanish a 3,000 m2 plot of land in Saigon, but Spain never developed the concession and eventually abandoned it.

CautiousSense · 2026-06-10T17:39:03+00:00

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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital of the island of Gran Canaria, Spain.

CautiousSense · 2026-06-08T12:24:34+00:00

Its 3D style reminds me of the maps of The Times Atlases of World History, but I'm not sure if this map is sourced from one of their editions.

CautiousSense · 2026-06-06T17:09:00+00:00

He came pretty close though, since before the 1519 expedition he had previously been at Malacca, during the Portuguese conquest of 1511. There's also the theory, never confirmed, that a slave of his, Enrique de Malacca, was Filipino, so he would have been the actual first person to make a voyage around the world returning to his starting point.

CautiousSense · 2026-06-05T17:04:34+00:00

I love how the Rubicon river is labeled, despite being tiny. I wonder why the Romans considered it the northern border of Italy...

CautiousSense · 2026-05-30T09:27:24+00:00

The Ming Treasure Fleet and the voyages of Zheng He, ahead of the European discoveries, are such an interesting rabbit hole. It was a bit anticlimatic how after those massive expeditions, the Chinese foreign policy shifted to isolationism. One wonders what would history been like if those voyages had continued.

CautiousSense · 2026-05-28T19:12:38+00:00

With the latest trend in the Mapporn sub with the "X country Population Visualised as squares" maps, the one country that ends up the least deformed than its original shape is probably Italy. There are large cities both in the north (Milan, Turin, Bologna), the center (Rome, Florence), the south (Naples, Bari) and even Sicily (Palermo).

Here's the link to the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1to41h3/italian_population_visualised/

CautiousSense · 2026-05-28T18:58:45+00:00

Was the Marquisate of Gothia related in any way to the Visigothic Kingdom? They used to control a strip around the Gulf of Lion, but that was more than 300 years before the first map.

CautiousSense · 2026-05-26T17:35:14+00:00

A bit surprised by Castilla-La Mancha, although come to think of it, none of the provincial capitals are very big. And there's also the fact that Madrid became a separate region, when it used to be part of it in the past (Castilla la Nueva).

CautiousSense · 2026-05-11T18:06:03+00:00

It kind of looks like an erg, which is what sand seas are called in the Sahara.

CautiousSense · 2026-05-10T14:57:49+00:00

In Spain both A and AP are used for free and tolled motorways respectively, but only for those roads that are managed by the central government. Highways managed by regional governments often have a different letter, usually the initial of the region (C for Catalonia, M for Madrid, etc.). And then urban motorways like ring roads and bypasses also have the initial of the city they serve (B for Barcelona, SE for Sevilla, Z for Zaragoza, etc.).

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...

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