Rahul Pandey
@Rahul_Pandey02
Rare and Breathtaking Maps You've Never Seen (Until Now) 🧵 1. The Sahara Desert was lush and green just 6,000 years ago.
2/ The True Size of Countries vs. the Mercator Projection 🌍 Most world maps lie to your eyes. • Polar regions look huge • Equator regions shrink Example: 🇬🇱 Greenland ≠ 🇿🇦 Africa Greenland looks similar in size — but Africa is 14x bigger. (Map comparing Mercator vs. true scale)
3/ Who Was Alive When ⏳ A timeline showing overlapping lives of famous people from 1200 AD to now. History's connections are wilder than you think.
4/ Percentage of population "absolutely sure" that God exists.
5/ The Roman Empire's Roads 🛣️ A modern take on Rome’s 250,000 km road network — redrawn like a subway map. Efficiency, Roman-style.
6/ Peak of the Greatest Empires 🌍 A snapshot of history’s biggest empires at their height — when their influence shaped the world map.
7/ Europe Is Greener Than 100 Years Ago 🌳 Thanks to reforestation and conservation, much of Europe has more green space today than a century ago.
8/ Where Iliad Characters Came From 🏛️ A map showing the homelands of heroes from Homer’s Iliad — from Achilles to Hector. Legends with real roots.
9/ Population density in China.
10/ Elevation map of South America.
11/ The world according to Google Street View.
12/ Most popular girls' names by state over time.