Credit: peppermintnarwhal

I made this for the upcoming 2026/2027 season using Google My Maps. Teams in Blue are in the Premier League and Teams in Red are in the Championship. Data came from the NIFL's club pages.

started west and reference used east of wisconsin, though not a lot. reference mainly for maine because that’s a hard state to draw

Start - 1674 CE

End - 1818 CE

Peak Period - 1772 - 1795 CE

Duration - 144 Years

Size - 2.5 Million KM²

Founder - Shivaji Shahaji Bhonsale

Last Ruler - Peshwa Bajirao II

Country Of Origin - India

Capital - Rajgad, Jinji, Satara, Poona

Religion - Hinduism, Islam, Jainism

Eurooe map i Made

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

I did my best to label each country with their respective native names, but I'm not an expert and I do not live in Europe. If I made any mistakes, please let me know!

Some countries have multiple native names, which is why some have more than one name given.

Edit: I missed Liechtenstein, which is simply called Liechtenstein.

Hello,

What do you consider a good colour scheme for topography map? Naming colours, RGB reference and example pictures are welcomed.

We mapped Phileas Fogg's classic circumnavigation as a public ExploreMap trip, from London around the globe and back again.

https://exploremap.co/blog/around-the-world-in-80-days-on-exploremap

https://exploremap.co/s/xmap/trip/around-world-80-days?autoplay=1

Ethnic and Cultural Continuum of (Broadly) Western Europe.

There weren't sufficient colours to continue West.

What would would you alter?
What should be considered distinct groupings?
What groupings are similar enough to be combined?

As above but I would split the France/Italy/Spain grouping North South. With the following exceptions

Northern France being grouped with the UK/Dutch block

Southern France being grouped with Northern Spain + Northern Italy

Southern Italy+ Southern Spain grouped together, maybe with Greece.

CalisthenicsLiveMap has 28,000+ calisthenics spots in 90+ countries, so it’s made specifically for finding places to train.

Instead of searching through random parks on Google Maps, you can quickly see what equipment is available — pull-up bars, dips, rings, etc.

It’s also community-powered, so people can add and update spots.

Basically, it’s a map built for calisthenics athletes, by calisthenics athletes. 💪

Hello, I have an interesting office space where the wall is at about 45 degree angle, with the angle being roughly 61 inches long, and that extends about 15 feet wide that covers the entire side of a room. I would like to decorate it with different maps, but I would like to see if anyone has any sort of suggestions with a potential style/era of maps that could look good.

I am pretty open regarding the map locations. I do enjoy the Muir Way relief maps, but given the size of the space, I feel like that may be a bit more than I am willing to spend to cover the space.

Any suggestions on styles or eras that I should look into would be greatly appreciated. The space is just satin white walls with dark walnut trims of the windows and baseboards

This is my grandparents globe and they got it around the 70s (i can send more specifics if needed just ask)

EDIT: Final answer is the top comment, (12 October 1968 (Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain) - 30 June 1969 (Spain transfers Ifni to Morocco.))

Aangan · Daily Games

Hi everyone!
I have created an online daily puzzle/ game about India - its places, culture, geography, history. There are 7 games and a new set appears each day. Please try a few and let me know which one you like the most.
The games are on the website
www.playaangan.com.
If you enjoy it, challenge someone else.
Thank you!

Tel Aviv Impressed*

Updated (v3) version of this project I've been working on the last weeks! It is designed to provide context for the various coalitions and factions involved in the ongoing conflicts across Africa and the Middle East. Tensions have continued to rise in recent months, raising concerns that all of this could escalate into a wider regional war.

I was going to add more stuff like city labels, highways, railways, ports, more detailed gas, mining and oil infrastructure, pipelines, etc, etc, If it wasn't because my PC just couldn't handle the project anymore.

DISCLAIMER: Because a lot of people said commented this on the last version of the map i uploaded, if two countries are in the same "block" doesn't mean they automatically are best friends and have military relations, at least not yet, specially since most of this alliances are very recent and even former rivals like Egypt and Turkey have come together and shifted their relations at an unprecedented level in a short period of time.

Anyway, here's a more detailed description of the map:

🟥 Red | "Berbera Axis" / "Hexagon Alliance" & allies/proxies: Led by the UAE, Israel, and Ethiopia. They actively support Somalia's independent/breakaway regions, benefiting from the trade of local ports mainly managed by the Emirati firm DP World. In Sudan, this axis (Ethiopia and the UAE, Israel just doesn't care for now) heavily backs the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in their civil war against the Sudanese central government (SAF).

🟩 Green | "Mogadishu Axis" & allies: Led by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Egypt. They actively support the central Somali federal government against separatist regions and are rapidly arming Mogadishu - which recently demonstrated its military capabilities when the South West State of Somalia defied federal authority. They also support SAF in the Sudanese civil war.

🟨 Yellow | "Resistance Axis" & allies: Led by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its regional proxies against the western influence in the region and regional enemies specially Israel.

🟦 Deep blue | American (USA) sphere of Influence: Military outposts, and cooperative counter-terrorism partnerships with governments in the region.

🟦 Light blue | "Western" (mostly European) sphere of Influence: States "aligned with the west" politically and in security.

🟪 Purple | Russian sphere of Influence: Nations with a heavy dependency on the Africa Corps (Former Wagner Group) used for training, active combat or securing key infrastructure of allied states. Worth mentioning than since the dead of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the integration of the Wagner Group into the Russian ministry of defense, some former Wagner Group soldiers (specially in the CAR) have reorganized into dissidences, the most prominent one being Prigozhin's son (Pavel Prigozhin) Cartel-like structure that has control over local mining zones, human trafficking, key trade routes and recently has ventured into Tramadol trafficking specially into the neighboring active combat zones.

🟧 Orange | Chinese sphere of Influence: China has growing economic relationships with most of the African countries, and their SOE's have a lot of natural resources and infrastructure contracts all over the continent, but because i didn't have enough time to do the necessary research i just limited the presence of China here strictly in the form of Chinese PMS's protecting their state owned enterprises mining infrastructure within the Kivu region of the DRC. Omitting for example the Simandou mine in Guinea

⬛ Black: Islamic State and its regional affiliates.

⬜ White: Al-Qaeda and its regional affiliates.

🌐 Cyan: United Nations peacekeeping missions.

International Stabilization missions:

United Nations Missions (~44,000 total personnel)

• UNISFA in the disputed Abyei region (Sudan/South Sudan border).
• UNMISS in South Sudan.
• MINUSCA in the Central African Republic (actively supporting the state government).
• MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• UNFICYP in Cyprus

African Union Missions (~13,000+ total personnel)

• AUSSOM in Somalia (succeeding ATMIS)
• MNJTF in the Lake Chad Basin with Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon.

Special notes:

About Libya: Following the collapse of Khalifa Haftar’s 2019 offensive against Tripoli, the Libyan civil war froze into a stalemate, leaving the country split between the UN-recognized government in the West and Haftar’s forces in the East. Egypt historically backed Eastern Libya as a national security buffer zone to protect its own borders, specially to contain their once then rival Turkey influence over the Tripoli government. But this didn't stop UAE to emerge as the primary supporter of Haftar, recently advancing the political ascent of Khalifa’s son Saddam Haftar, and brokering oil and a power-sharing deal with the Tripoli government, going as far as letting the UAE backed RSF operate training camps inside it's territory and facilitate logistics to them, though they officially deny it. Also Turkey has entered the scene in the last month starting supporting Haftar while still being the main backer of the Tripoli government, to counter the UAE influence and if a peace deal is made, they would have significant influence over both sides.

About Morocco is highlighted as part of the Hexagon Alliance, even though it does not actively provide weapons or military equipment to any of the proxy conflicts (yet) because while Rabat publicly opposes support for breakaway regions, largely because of its own dispute with the Western Sahara, it remains a close strategic partner of the UAE and, more recently, Israel. Meanwhile, Algeria has firmly aligned itself with the "Mogadishu Axis". Given these regional alignments and the principle of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," I believe Morocco should be considered part of the Hexagon Alliance.

About Greece and Cyprus: Similar to Morocco, not only were they directly proposed by Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu as part of the "Hexagon alliance" key allies of the UAE and Israel while having a common enemy, Turkey, worth mentioning their close relationship with Israel specially under Greek's conservative prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the planned Great Sea interconnector proposed in March 2021 and the EastMed pipeline proposed in January of 2020 to connect the three countries, though both stalled because of the pandemic and the consequent economic crisis and the heavy Turkish pressure against the projects even going as far as sending their navy to intercept research ships.

About India: The reasoning is similar. They were directly proposed by Big Yahu as part of the Hexagon alliance, Although it maintains extensive economic ties with Saudi Arabia and has military cooperation with Egypt, it leans much more strongly toward Israel and the UAE. Having military ties with Israel. And especially, given that Pakistan, India's swore enemy, is a key and close ally of Saudi Arabia, even having more than a thousand troops and a lot of equipment on Arabian territory, and even providing equipment and funds to proxies like the SAF and doing deals with Mogadishu, and most importantly, one of the founding members of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement alongside Saudi Arabia and Turkey the 7th of August

About South Sudan: The ruling party of South Sudan after their independence in 2011 split because of corruption allegations, political and ethnic rivalries, With the SPLM-IO being founded in 2013 and starting a civil war that lasted until 2018, since 2015 the SPLM-IO started being supported by the South Sudanese government as an attempt to destabilize their young neighbor, after the peace deal and government coalition between the SPLM and SPLM-IO collapsed the conflict reactivated in March of 2025, with the SAF government again backing and supplying the SPLM-IO, as a consequence, the RSF started doing incursions and attacking the SPLM-IO in retaliation for their alliance, and while the official SPLM South Sudanese government is neutral in the Sudanese conflict, specially because alligning with any side would mean any could sabotage the oil pipeline that goes trough Sudan and that's the backbone of 90% of South Sudan's economy. However, they are naturally aligned with the RSF, and haven't opposed RSF occupying the disputed zones of Abyei and Kafia Kingi, and it even seems to have allowed the RSF to go trough their territory to start the Blue Nile campaign.

Even though i tried to do a deep research, this map is not intended to be 100% accurate given that conflicts in this region of the world are usually poorly documented and usually not very reliable. Also given that this is a highly volatile landscape, these proxy networks and alliances could shift in the coming months or even weeks. Any feedback or insights are highly appreciated! :)

Notes:

France includes: Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion, Mayotte, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia, Clipperton, French Southern and Antarctic Lands

France and Netherlands share a border between Saint Martin and Sint Maarten.

Spain and UK share a border because of Gibraltar.

UK and Cyprus share a border because of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.

UK and US share a border because of gifted land for JFK memorial.

Denmark and Canada share a border because of Hans Island.

Spain and Morocco share a border because of Ceuta and Melilla.

Poland and Russia share a border because of Kaliningrad.

I hope that this question is appropriate for this sub, if not please let me know what sub I should ask instead!

I recently moved back home to Minnesota after spending the last 5 years working on my ecology PhD in South Ohio My dissertation work was heavily field-based, and in rural Appalachia where I rarely had cell service and frequently encountered road closures due to storms and flooding, I learned quickly to rely on a trustworthy physical map. App-wise I LOVED Gaia GPS and will pay for the premium features indefinitely, that application was a godsend for me.

For the last 5 years I have religiously used the Purple Lizard map for the Athens-Zaleski area, and it was my baby. It became one of my most beloved possessions, and is now rendered completely useless to me upon returning home to Minnesota. I am desperate to find a comparable map (or beloved regional map firm/cartographer) that makes regional maps of Minnesota/Wisconsin.

I reached out to PLM’s team directly to ask them for recommendations, but they didn’t have any suggestions for me for this part of the country.

I know it’s a bit of a stretch to ask if there is a comparable product to a Pennsylvania-based independent map firm in the upper Midwest, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to ask.

I have at least a dozen maps of the area already— vintage ones that were my grandparents’, lots of pamphlets from state parks etc. But I want to find the Minnesota equivalent of my Purple Lizard Map desperately!

And I am not at all picky about the map’s actual features as they relate to a PLM product, mostly i want to know whether there is a gold standard in this area/region that people generally prefer.

I would deeply appreciate any recommendations (even if your preferred map is local to you, I’m curious in general about the physical maps that people swear by)!