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DISPATCHES FROM THE ATLAS
14 deep cultural stories across 7 continents
Labyrinths of Stone: Madagascar’s Tsingy de Bemaraha
The Spice Route on Your Plate
Carved from the Living Rock: The Sunken Churches of Lalibela
Water Beneath the Sand: The Thousand-Year Foggaras of the Sahara
Festivals That Bring People Together
Bread of the Ancestors: Sourdough and Clay Ovens of the Levant
Untranslatable Words: Five Histories Behind the Label
The Living Root Bridges of Meghalaya
A Journey Through Rajasthan
Rajasthan’s Forts: Water, Walls and Living Cities
Voices Carved in Stone: The Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs
The Guardians of Timbuktu’s Desert Manuscripts
Whistled Tongues of the Ravines: The Silbo Gomero
The Way of Tea: Harvests, Hearth, and Silence in Uji
Labyrinths of Stone: Madagascar’s Tsingy de Bemaraha
The Spice Route on Your Plate
Carved from the Living Rock: The Sunken Churches of Lalibela
Water Beneath the Sand: The Thousand-Year Foggaras of the Sahara
Festivals That Bring People Together
Bread of the Ancestors: Sourdough and Clay Ovens of the Levant
Untranslatable Words: Five Histories Behind the Label
The Living Root Bridges of Meghalaya
A Journey Through Rajasthan
Rajasthan’s Forts: Water, Walls and Living Cities
Voices Carved in Stone: The Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs
The Guardians of Timbuktu’s Desert Manuscripts
Whistled Tongues of the Ravines: The Silbo Gomero
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Equal Earth projection · Natural Earth repository v5.1.2 (lakes layer v5.0.0) · Public domain. Sources: land and boundaries, marine areas, lakes and reservoirs.
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This is a generalized map from a fixed Natural Earth dataset, not a live record of territorial control. Hatching and dashed lines show the source’s disputed areas, claims and reference lines. Lease areas use a fine teal outline, including Baikonur (Baykonur in the dataset) within Kazakhstan; these are not additional countries. Their display—and a link to an atlas page—does not express a position on sovereignty or recognition.
The inland-water layer includes lakes and reservoirs, with major named features clickable; it is not every lake worldwide. The Aral Sea link combines the source’s North and South Aral components without restoring its historical shoreline. Other mapped areas without a matching atlas entry use a neutral fill and link here. Separately catalogued territories retain their regional pages; the country collection remains 195. Small-place dots are locators, not enlarged borders. Like every flat world map, this projection changes shapes; coastlines and islands are generalized for display.
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COUNTRIES, TERRITORIES & REGIONS
Destinations
- CapitalNagoya
- Population7.5 m
- Area5,173 km²
- Density1,454/km²
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- CapitalPhōnhōng
- Population388,833
- Area15,927 km²
- Density24/km²
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OCEANS, SEAS, BAYS & LAKES
Oceans & seas
- Area2.3 m km²
- Max depth4,191 m
- Volume3.8 m km³
- ShoresUnited States + 1
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- Area1,114 km²
- Max depth3 m
- Volume3 km³
- ShoresCanada + 1
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- Area4,650 km²
- Max depth37 m
- Volume38 km³
- ShoresDemocratic Republic of the Congo + 1
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- Area559 km²
- Max depth24 m
- Volume5 km³
- ShoresCanada
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- Area4,580 km²
- Max depth28 m
- Volume25 km³
- ShoresRussia
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- Area4,350 km²
- Max depth64 m
- Length110 km
- ShoresCanada + 1
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- Area8,562 km²
- Max depth489 m
- Volume893 km³
- ShoresPeru + 1
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WORTH GETTING LOST IN
Stories for the curious.
Carved from the Living Rock: The Sunken Churches of Lalibela
The cross on Saint George's roof lay below Francisco Álvares. Visiting Lalibela in the 1520s, the Portuguese priest found…
Whistled Tongues of the Ravines: The Silbo Gomero
A question about the ferry sits in a schoolbook beside its whistled spelling. On one side is ordinary Spanish:…
The Way of Tea: Harvests, Hearth, and Silence in Uji
Rice left a clue beneath the tea bushes at Okunoyama. Gen Inoue and his colleagues dug into the soil…
The Living Root Bridges of Meghalaya
One bridge in a 2019 study of Meghalaya’s living root bridges had been growing for 66 years and was…
Untranslatable Words: Five Histories Behind the Label
After the Second World War, William Barclay asked the Red Cross and Allied agencies tracing looted property to help…
Water Beneath the Sand: The Thousand-Year Foggaras of the Sahara
In a photograph made in 2025, a water measurer in Ben Aissa holds a copper plate above the channel.…
Bread of the Ancestors: Sourdough and Clay Ovens of the Levant
The crumbs in a fireplace at Shubayqa 1 were older than farming. Excavators working in the Black Desert of…
Rajasthan’s Forts: Water, Walls and Living Cities
The World Monuments Fund’s account of Jaisalmer begins beneath the sandstone skyline. As water use rose and modern plumbing…
Labyrinths of Stone: Madagascar’s Tsingy de Bemaraha
A climber’s pierced boot soles lead into Bemaraha’s cave-cut limestone, its small wildlife habitats and the human histories associated…
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A Journey Through Rajasthan
In Bagru, a paste used to print cloth begins with black mud, flour waste, lime and tree gum. The…
ONE WORLD. SO MANY WAYS IN.
Nine topics.What sparks your curiosity?
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HistoryStories that shaped us.FoodA taste of somewhere.Art & ArchitectureMade to move you.PeopleMeet the world.Traditions & FestivalsLife, celebrated.NatureFind your wild.LanguageMore than words.PlacesGo beyond the familiar.CultureEveryday extraordinary.
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