MAPS

“The map is not the territory.”

Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) Russian engineer, mathematician, philosopher

Welcome to the Doug’s Darkworld map page. I love maps, I pored over the maps from National Geographic endlessly when I was a kid, and I still am fascinated by them. These are maps I have made, maps I find useful in understanding the state of the world, and links to map resources I find helpful in my research. And maps and links to maps that are just plain cool.

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Three Empires: This is a map I made up to show the current political state of the world, or more accurately, the world’s power blocs. Basically the world is divided up into the Western, Russian, and Chinese spheres. With a handful of independent players, or “rogue nations” depending on your druthers.

Three Empires. Copyright © Doug Stych 2007 All Rights Reserved

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Green: Free World/New American Empire. Darker denotes major power centres within this bloc.
Red: Russia and its ally, Belarus.
Yellow: China and its allies.
Turquoise: Non-aligned nations.
Pink: Nations defying the Green bloc and/or with strongly anti-American governments.
Grey: Nations basically in civil war or similar internal serious unrest.
Black: Nations with foreign occupiers/invaders in the midst of serious insurgencies.

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New Middle East Map: This is a map showing approximately what the borders in the Middle East would look like if they actually made sense, instead of being drawn up by the colonial powers to facilitate their extraction of resources from the region. This map came from here. I have also blogged about this map.

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Map Links

World Sea Level Rise map. An interactive map that allows one to see the results of anywhere from a 1m to 14m rise in sea level anywhere on Earth. Greenland Melting would make the sea level rise about 7m, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting would raise the sea level about 10m.

5,000 Years of History in 90 Seconds. An animated map that shows the rise and fall of empires in the Middle East over the last 5,000 years.

WorldMapper. Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. A handy collection of mostly Pubic Domain maps.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps. Another handy collection of mostly Public Domain maps, it includes blank maps for those who want to make their own maps.

Strange Maps. Exactly what it sounds like, a blog about avast array of maps, some very educational, all interesting in some fashion. Anyone who likes maps will like this blog.

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Page updated 21 June 2007
All original content on this blog:
Copyright © Stanley Douglas Stych 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved

(The image of the New Middle East map is a heavily cropped portion of the original work, and its reproduction here is claimed as Fair Use under US copyright law. It is not being used for profit and is central to illustrating the subject, itself. The Three Empires Map is my own creation and I grant permission to reproduce it for non commercial use if linked back to Doug’s Darkworld.)