The World Perceived Through Maps – Some of Them Reveal Shocking Information

We know the world map just by the shape of it. Remember all the maps you were thought in school? Some teachers would even ask you to memorize them and do a blank map exam.

But did you know that maps are not just for showing the location of each country? It can be used for other things too! Here is a collection of interesting maps that you would never see in school.

Pangea world map

Have you ever heard of Pangea? It is actually what we called Earth about 200 to 300 million years ago back when all the continents were still attached to each other. During those times, we only had one super continent.

Source: Nature World Today

This map shows what the countries looked like before the continents started to break apart and move from each other. As most of us know, this happened because of the movement of tectonic plates.

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