40 Maps That Completely Miss The Point But Deliver On Comedy

Maps are usually designed to inform. They guide travelers, show political boundaries, and help us make sense of the world. But sometimes, maps abandon accuracy altogether and embrace absurdity, whimsy, or pure comedy.

The Facebook page Terrible Maps has become a treasure trove for fans of geographic comedy. From wildly distorted world maps to charts that reinterpret mundane data in outrageous ways, the page collects maps that are more likely to make you laugh than to help you navigate. Here are some maps that completely miss the point but deliver on comedy.

#1 No One Trolls With Street Names Quite Like Prague

#2 The Purr-Fect Map

#3 Now It Makes Sense

#4 Map Of Africa Made From Orange Peel

#5 Fun Fact: The Baltic Sea Is A Crocodile Eating Finland

#6 The Earth Before And After Your Opinion

#7 The United States Drawn Entirely From Memory

#8 Map Of Tingham, UK

#9 When Mobile Connections To Russian Networks Revealed Troop Positions

#10 A Very Serious Dog Map

#11 This Weather Map Perfectly Sums Up How Most Finns Feel

#12 Really Pleased With My New IKEA Globe That Shows Earth At Night Time

#13 How To Be A Terrible Neighbour

#14 When You Try To Draw A Straight Line With A Ruler But Your Finger Has Other Pla

#15 Countries That Declared War On Birds… And Lost

#16 A Pizza Map Of Italy

#17 Cyclist Recreates Nirvana’s Iconic Nevermind Album Cover

#18 What Earth Will Look Like In 250 Million Years, With Today’s Borders

#19 Colossal Squid Sightings Around The World

#20 U.S. States With More Cows Than People

#21 New Zealand’s Snake Population Density

#22 Where Johnny Cash Claims To Have Traveled In “I’ve Been Everywhere”

#23 A Proposed Two-State Solution

#24 The World After An 8,800m Sea Rise

#25 Australians When Surprised

#26 Countries In Europe Whose National Animals Are Extinct Or Mythical

#27 When You Set Out To Map The World But Remember You’re A Chap From 1930s Britain

#28 Kanawyers And Independence Are 20 Miles Apart, But The Road Trip Takes 300 Miles And Six Hours

#29 Map Showing Which Countries Are The Hairiest

#30 Average Sneeze Speed Across Europe

#31 Can You Legally Hunt Unicorns In Your State?

#32 Tiger Ownership Legality By U.S. State

#33 The Most Commonly Used Word In Each State’s Wikipedia Page

#34 Did You Know?

#35 The Earth, But Just Islands

#36 A Topographic Map Of Africa

#37 How European Explorers Saw America In 1492

#38 States Where You Can Get Arrested For Wrestling A Bear

#39 The Great Italian Divide

#40 This Map Shows How Zealandia Might Look Today If It Had Stayed Above Sea Level

Saumya Ratan

Saumya is an explorer of all things beautiful, quirky, and heartwarming. With her knack for art, design, photography, fun trivia, and internet humor, she takes you on a journey through the lighter side of pop culture.