A good map should help you find your way around, teach you something about geography or give you a sense of place. But some maps do none of that… Instead, they leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the world. Part cartography, part chaos.
Some maps are masters of misdirection, others are accidental works of comedy. And the internet is full of these useless gems. Many can be found in a little corner aptly called Terrible Maps. The Facebook page has 1.2 million followers, all getting lost together down a rabbit-hole of nonsensical maps.
Bored Panda has put together a list of our favorites from the page for you to scroll through while you plan your next trip. Be warned, many of these might teach you nothing about geography but everything about human imagination, confidence and our ability to slap a label on something and call it a day. These hilarious maps gone south are reminders that not every visual aid is actually aiding anything. Sometimes “it’s geography, but make it entertainment…”
#1 Fun Fact: The Baltic Sea Is A Crocodile Eating Finland
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#2 Map Of Tingham, UK
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#3 The Purr-Fect Map
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#4 No One Trolls With Street Names Quite Like Prague
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#5 Map Of Africa Made From Orange Peel
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#6 Really Pleased With My New IKEA Globe That Shows Earth At Night Time
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#7 The United States Drawn Entirely From Memory
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#8 A Very Serious Dog Map
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#9 This Weather Map Perfectly Sums Up How Most Finns Feel
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#10 A Pizza Map Of Italy
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#11 Average Sneeze Speed Across Europe
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#12 When You Try To Draw A Straight Line With A Ruler But Your Finger Has Other Pla
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#13 U.S. States With More Cows Than People
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#14 Australians When Surprised
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#15 Now It Makes Sense
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#16 Where Johnny Cash Claims To Have Traveled In “I’ve Been Everywhere”
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#17 Prisons vs. Colleges By US State
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#18 Countries Googling Google On Google In The Last Day
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#19 Countries That Declared War On Birds… And Lost
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#20 A Proposed Two-State Solution
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#21 Is It Possible To Walk To Australia From Your Country?
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#22 The World After An 8,800m Sea Rise
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#23 A Topographic Map Of Africa
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#24 The Earth Before And After Your Opinion
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#25 Map Showing Which Countries Are The Hairiest
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#26 What Earth Will Look Like In 250 Million Years, With Today’s Borders
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#27 When Mobile Connections To Russian Networks Revealed Troop Positions
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#28 How To Be A Terrible Neighbour
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#29 Kanawyers And Independence Are 20 Miles Apart, But The Road Trip Takes 300 Miles And Six Hours
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#30 Can The Name Of This European Country Be Spelled Using Only Periodic Table Elements?
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#31 Cyclist Recreates Nirvana’s Iconic Nevermind Album Cover
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#32 States Where You Can Get Arrested For Wrestling A Bear
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#33 Tiger Ownership Legality By U.S. State
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#34 The Most Commonly Used Word In Each State’s Wikipedia Page
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#35 Colossal Squid Sightings Around The World
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#36 New Zealand’s Snake Population Density
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#37 Did You Know?
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#38 The Great Italian Divide
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#39 When You Set Out To Map The World But Remember You’re A Chap From 1930s Britain
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#40 Fun Fact: Switzerland Is 18 The Gambias Away From Mongolia
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#41 This Map Shows How Zealandia Might Look Today If It Had Stayed Above Sea Level
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#42 Can You Legally Hunt Unicorns In Your State?
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#43 How European Explorers Saw America In 1492
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#44 Am I The Only One Who Sees An Elephant Doing The Front Crawl When I Look At The Mediterranean?
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#45 Countries That Have Fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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#46 U.S. States With The Highest Number Of Venomous Animals
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#47 The Neighborhoods Of New York City
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#48 Where You Can Own A Monkey In The USA
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#49 The Most Likely Colour Of Your House In Europe
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#50 You Can Sail In A Straight Line From Georgia To Georgia
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#51 The Earth, But Just Islands
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#52 Berlin Is Approximately 7 Belgiums Away From Moscow
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#53 Every State’s Most Disturbing Sports Mascot
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#54 Rule Brie-Tannia: God Save The Cream
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#55 Americans Were Asked To Identify The UK On A World Map
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#56 The Top “Why Is [state] So…” Question For Each Aussie State
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#57 Density Of Pig Farms Across Europe
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#58 Stereotype Map Of New England
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#59 Countries In Europe Whose National Animals Are Extinct Or Mythical
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#60 US States By Paid Sick Leave Laws In 2025
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#61 How Many New Mexicos Fit Inside Mexico
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#62 Countries Featured In Poland’s Anthem
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#63 Pluto vs. The State Of Alaska
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#64 The Shortest Route From Santiago, Chile To Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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#65 First To Open In Each State: Target Or Walmart
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#66 Present-Day Ghana vs. Where The Ghana Empire Actually Was
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#67 Really Makes You Think
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#68 Exactly
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#69 The Drive So Dull Only Midwesterners Survive It
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#70 A Flag Map Of Europe Where Each Country Is Shown With The Flag Of The Nation It Shares Its Shortest Land Border With
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#71 Wyoming Has A Lower Population Than The Other 49 States Combined
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#72 Historical And Present Distribution Of Lions
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#73 The Size Of Texas Compared To The Moon And Dwarf Planets
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#74 What France’s Borders Looked Like Briefly In 1866
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#75 U.S. States With The Most (And Least) Attractive People
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#76 How Many Brazils Fit Into Switzerland
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#77 A Useful Map For New Yorkers In La
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#78 Countries Where The Local Name Is Extremely Different From The English Version
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#79 What A Masterpiece. Absolute Chaos – Couldn’t Have Designed It Better Myself. If You’re English, You Know
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#80 States Where Lassoing Fish Is Illegal
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#81 I Mean, I’ve Seen Worse Ideas
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#82 Map Of The Donbas Region Putin Proposed Ukraine Should Cede In Exchange For Ending The Fighting
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#83 A Map Of Every Country That Starts With A Capital Letter
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#84 Map Of What Europeans Think Is The ‘South’ In The USA
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#85 Does Your State Or Province Share Its Name With A Street In Chicago?
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#86 States Most Likely To Survive An Alien Invasion
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#87 The Legality Of Flamethrower Ownership In The United States
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#88 Which State Has The Worst License Plate?
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#89 The EU, But Every Country Is The UK
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