Frank Jacobs Author is author of Strange Maps - An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities Articles Charted territories More space fo everyoneLongitude #94 Charted territories Geography as bellic causeLongitude #93 Charted territories MegacitiesLongitude #92 Charted territories Pakistan’s forgotten creatorLongitude #91 Charted territories The loneliest place on earthLongitude #87/88 Charted territories Ancient and recent bordersLongitude #85/86 Charted territories What the world will look like in the year 250,002,018Longitude #84 Charted territories No such thing as Italian foodLongitude #83 Charted territories Turning Qatar into an islandLongitude #82 Charted territories Girth of a nationLongitude #81 Charted territories Street name diplomacyLongitude #80 Charted territories How Bitcoin eats energyLongitude #78/79 Charted territories When a city is like a countryLongitude #77 Charted territories A pyramid map of the world’s biomesLongitude #76 Charted territories An iceberg the size of… (take your pick)Longitude #75 Charted territories The world’s five military empiresLongitude #74 Charted territories The balmy Antarctic beach resortLongitude #73 Charted territories Which commodities make the world go round?Longitude #72 Charted territories The world’s biggest weapons exporters and their customersLongitude #71 Charted territories Measuring Europe’s Tower of BabelLongitude #70 Charted territories Birth of a nationLongitude #69 Charted territories How to relieve overcrowded countriesLongitude #68 Charted territories Mind the gap, ladiesLongitude #67 Charted territories A map to make America greater againLongitude #66 Charted territories Solitude, space junk and sea monsters at Point NemoLongitude #65 Charted territories Novosibirsk, the economic center of the world?Longitude #64 Charted territories The best and worst of each EU member stateLongitude #63 Charted territories Why Germany and Sweden have the world’s best passportsLongitude #62 Charted territories How the Donald sees itLongitude #61 Charted territories The four worlds of income inequalityLongitude #60 Charted territories Tokelau, the world’s online superpowerLongitude #59 Charted territories Africa uncolonizedLongitude #58 Charted territories The God vs. Mammon MapLongitude #57 Charted territories Mapping mass shootingsLongitude #56 Charted territories Watercolors of the war between East and WestLongitude #55 Charted territories The joy of sad place namesLongitude #54 Charted territories Mapping hospitalityLongitude #53 Charted territories Where Europe shrinks, and where it growsLongitude #52 Charted territories Welcome Talibanistan?Longitude #51 Charted territories The obscure Kingdom of MacaronesiaLongitude #50 Charted territories Her Majesty’s royal shit listLongitude #49 Charted territories An Ottoman Atlantis on the DanubeLongitude #48 Charted territories How the west is ownedLongitude #47 Charted territories The Blue BananaLongitude #46 Charted territories The phantom Emirate of AhwazLongitude #45 Charted territories An equipopulous EuropeLongitude #44 Charted territories The geography of geniusLongitude #43 Charted territories How does Europe’s electricity flow?Longitude #42 Borders Bordering on UtopiaLongitude #41 Charted territories Her Majesty’s frozen slice of pieLongitude #41 Charted territories Portugal is a jellyfishLongitude #40 Charted territories Karakalpakstan: the toxic obscurity of a straight-A nationLongitude #39 Charted territories Turkey’s piece of SyriaLongitude #38 Charted territories The forgotten inventor of PakistanLongitude #37 Charted territories Make love or warLongitude #36 Charted territories Europe’s wild frontierLongitude #35 Charted territories The beauty of duplicityLongitude #34 Charted territories Gibraltar, mother of all territorial disputesLongitude #33 Charted territories The world’s craziest, twistiest borderLongitude #32 Charted territories Is Ulster doomed?Longitude #31 Charted territories The White Sausage Line and other German equatorsLongitude #30 Charted territories Beyond the Vatican’s wallsLongitude #29 Charted territories The shapes of nationsLongitude #28 Charted territories It’s still 1990 in TransnistriaLongitude #27 Charted territories Slicing the world’s populationLongitude #26 Charted territories Pheasant Island, and other weird condominiumsLongitude #25 Charted territories Waiting for a bridge in GuyanaLongitude #24 Charted territories Maps as war by other meansLongitude #23 Charted territories Quito, capital of a phantom empireLongitude #22 Charted territories The border between today and tomorrowLongitude #21 Charted territories The Alawite StalemateLongitude #20 Charted territories Will Azawad be black or blue?Longitude #19 Charted territories Divided against itselfLongitude #18 Charted territories The Parsley War that wasn’tLongitude #17 Charted territories Redrawing EuropeLongitude #16 Charted territories The return of the frontierLongitude #15
