When you consider square mileage though, a whole new world appears. Inspired by this map of Africa's true size from German graphic designer Kai Krause, we created 15 map overlays to open your eyes ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the Western Front. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches ...

Esri, a spatial analytics firm based in California, has put together a animated map of California wildfires over the last century. Watch how quickly COVID-19 is spreading around the U.S. and world ...

The Battle of the Somme was one of the most significant campaigns of World War One ... front line in northern France, 1916. This interactive map shows the victories, defeats and painful stalemate ...

As Quartz points out, the animated map looks kind of like the vintage video ... So while it doesn't show all of the hacking going on in the world, it could be a representative snapshot of today's ...