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Diagram of French Sovereignty
Diagram of the Realm of Elizabeth II
Diagram of the Greater U.S. Realm
The centrality of the Caucasus
The centrality of Mari El and Mordovia
African endonymic country names, Arabic vs. other (Africa)
African endonymic country names, based on endonym map (Africa)
Ethnolinguanymic sovereign states (World)
Underfit “ethnolinguanymic states” (World)
Mean annual precipitation (Libya)
Per capita ecological footprint (World)
Landlocked countries (World)
China’s administrative divisions in the news (China)
Informal Regions of California (California, USA)
Regions of California: Northwest (“Wine & Weed”) (California, USA)
Regions of California: Far North/Shasta (Jefferson) (California, USA)
Regions of California: Sierra/Gold Country (California, USA)
Regions of California: Sierra/Gold Country (with Sierra Nevada Range outlined) (California, USA)
Regions of California: Central Valley (California, USA)
Regions of California: Central Valley (Central Valley outlined in black) (California, USA)
Regions of California: Eastern Sierra (California, USA)
Regions of California: Conventional 9-county vs. 5-county (California, USA)
Regions of California: Bay Area (California, USA)
Regions of California: Central Coast (California, USA)
31 Largest Islands of the Philippines (The Philippines)

About GeoCurrents

GeoCurrents is dedicated to exploring the geographical and historical patterns that underlie the world’s current events and that structure global and regional relationships. Maps are used in all posts not merely to show where events occur, but also to illustrate the processes involved.

GeoCurrents tries to avoid taking sides on contentious issues, seeking rather to foster an enriching exchange of information and ideas. As its scope is both fully global and deeply historical, the author is usually operating outside of his own fields of expertise. As a result, mistakes and simplifications can be expected. Corrections and elaborations are more than welcome in the comments section. Comments with insulting or abusive language, however, will be deleted.

Readers interested in opinion-based essays by Martin W. Lewis will be able to find them on his personal webpage.

About The Author

Martin W. Lewis is senior lecturer emeritus at Stanford University, where he taught world history and world geography from 2002 to 2022. He earned a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, and previously taught at George Washington University and Duke University. A list of his published works will soon be made available on his personal website.

GeoCurrents’ Conceptual Concerns

GeoCurrents is concerned about almost anything that has a geographical expression and hence can be explored and elucidated through maps. Topics of interest range from the deadly serious to the quirky and whimsical.

Many GeoCurrents posts take on issues of political geography, ranging from wars and ethnic conflicts to electoral returns. Behind these writings is a conviction that the basic world political map is unduly simplistic, making the world seem much more orderly than it really is. A book-length elaboration of this thesis – entitled Seduced by the Map – will be available on the author’s personal webpage by the end of 2023, if not earlier. The introduction and initial chapters on this book can be found on this website. A summary of the main arguments in Seduced by the Map can be found here.

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