Tag: belgium

  • Missing 184 - A Belgocentric Map of Europe

    over 4 years ago

    Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

    A follow-up on map #176, portraying the end of Belgium via the drowning of Flanders. Considering that Belgium is a slightly surreal construction at the heart of Europe (Western Europe anyway), the other option to its utter annihilation can only be its expansion to superpower-size. As is done on ... Read More

  • Missing 90 - The Limburg Split of 1839

    about 5 years ago

    Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

    The map-on-a-stamp in this post is again taken from the wonderful site called Dan’s Topical Stamps. To American ears, the word ‘Limburg’ conjures up the mighty stink emitted by so-called Limburger cheese. In one of Mark Twain’s stories, its smell is even mistaken for that of a corpse. And the ... Read More

  • Missing 52 - The Enclaves and Counter-enclaves of Baarle (B/NL)

    over 5 years ago

    Frank Jacobs in Strange Maps

    One of the unlikeliest complexes of enclaves and exclaves in the world is to be found on the Belgian-Dutch border, and is centred on Baarle. This town, while surrounded entirely by Dutch territory, consists of two separate administrative units, one of which is the Dutch commune of Baarle-Nassau ... Read More

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569 Posts since 2006

Frank Jacobs loves maps, but finds most atlases too predictable. He collects and comments on all kinds of intriguing maps—real, fictional, and what-if ones—and has been writing the Strange Maps blog since 2006, first on WordPress and now for Big Think.  His map "US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs" has been viewed more than 587,000 times. An anthology of maps from this blog was published by Penguin in 2009 and can be purchased from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

 

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