The Laconic History of our World map by cartographer Martin Elme, representing each country with a single word. Have a look at a larger version…
The Laconic World map produced: “by running all the various countries’ “History of _____” Wikipedia article through a word cloud, then writing out the most common word to fit into the country’s boundary. The result is thousands of years of human history oversimplified into 100-some words.”
More interesting information about the map here.
via gizmodo
source Maphugger
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