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The Physical Earth — Equal Earth
Equal Earth

The Physical Earth

A physical world map: the sea floor in twelve depth bands, the land coloured by height and shaded so the mountain ranges read as shapes, with the ice sheets, the salt flats and a coastline, and no borders at all. Read more

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Sources
  • Elevation: Copernicus GLO-90 (ESA), CC BY 4.0
  • Relief: composed by GeoCanvas from that elevation model
  • Bathymetry, ice, salt flats and coastline: Natural Earth
  • Projection: Equal Earth (Savric, Patterson and Jenny, 2018); other views as labelled
Internet censorship and surveillance (2025)

Internet censorship and surveillance (2025)

Government Internet filtering in practice in 2025, as rated by V-Dem, with V-Dem’s social media censorship and social media monitoring as two further maps. Read more

Grey means there is no V-Dem value to show for that place. Either V-Dem does not cover it (dependent territories, Antarctica, some smaller states), or, for Kosovo and Somaliland, our country outlines are not yet linked to V-Dem’s entry. All other values are V-Dem’s, unchanged.

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Sources
  • Data: Government Internet filtering in practice (v2smgovfilprc_ord), V-Dem Country-Year Dataset v16 (Coppedge et al. 2026, doi.org/10.23696/vdemds26), CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Indicator from the Digital Society Project (Mechkova, Pemstein, Seim and Wilson 2026)
  • Colours: Internet Censorship and Surveillance World Map by Jeffrey Ogden (W163), Wikimedia Commons, CC0; one added shade
  • Country outlines and ocean: Natural Earth
  • Projection: Robinson
Australia, drawn using only its rivers, lakes and streams

Australia, drawn using only its rivers, lakes and streams

Every river, stream, lake and reservoir in Geoscience Australia’s national survey, and nothing else: no coastline, no land, no borders. Dark water flows all year, pale water only some of the time. Read more

The smallest intermittent streams, the first-order headwaters, are left out: drawn in full they would cover the continent solid at this scale. Everything else is shown as Geoscience Australia maps it.

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Sources
  • Rivers, streams, lakes and reservoirs: Geoscience Australia, Surface Hydrology Lines and Polygons (National), 1:250,000. © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2015, CC BY 4.0
  • Lines joined and generalised, and stream order derived, by GeoCanvas
  • Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area, centred on 134°E 27°S
Where Greenland’s 56,740 people live (2026)

Where Greenland’s 56,740 people live (2026)

Every inhabited town and settlement in Greenland on 1 January 2026, coloured by population, on an equal-area map. Nuuk alone holds over a third of the country; almost everyone else lives along the west coast. Read more

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Sources
  • Population: Statistics Greenland, table BEXSTD “Population in Localities January 1st”, 2026 (bank.stat.gl)
  • Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL
  • Land, ocean and ice: Natural Earth
  • Size classes and colours after an r/MapPorn post
  • Projection: Equal Earth (Savric, Patterson and Jenny, 2018)
The earthquakes people felt in 2026

The earthquakes people felt in 2026

The five strongest earthquakes of 2026 in Mexico, the Caribbean and northern South America that people reported feeling: the shaking USGS modelled around each, and what people said they felt. Read more

Lines are USGS’s model of the shaking; dots are what people reported, one per 10 km square. Faint dots rest on a single report.

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Sources
  • Earthquakes: U.S. Geological Survey, ANSS Comprehensive Catalog (ComCat), doi:10.5066/F7MS3QZH, downloaded 28 September 2026
  • Modelled shaking: USGS ShakeMap intensity contours, unchanged
  • Felt reports: USGS Did You Feel It?, 10 km squares drawn as dots at their centres
  • Intensity classes and colours: the USGS ShakeMap legend (after Worden et al. 2012)
  • Land and ocean: Natural Earth
  • Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area
Where people live: population density 2025

Where people live: population density 2025

People per km² in 2025, as WorldPop models them for every 1 km cell, in seven classes from under 216 to over 22,000, on an equal-area map centred on Asia. Read more

A model, not a count. Zoomed out, each pixel averages many 1 km cells, so dense city cores turn darker as you zoom in.

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Sources
  • Population: WorldPop, Bondarenko et al. (2025), global 1 km mosaic, constrained, R2025A v1 (alpha), doi:10.5258/SOTON/WP00845, CC BY 4.0
  • People per cell converted to people per km² by GeoCanvas; unsettled cells drawn empty
  • Classes: head/tails breaks (Jiang 2013) computed by GeoCanvas
  • Colours: after ColorBrewer YlOrRd (Brewer, Penn State)
  • Countries and ocean: Natural Earth
  • Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area