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 No One Trolls With Street Names Quite Like Prague
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#2 The Purr-Fect Map
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#3 Now It Makes Sense
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#4 Map Of Africa Made From Orange Peel
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#5 Fun Fact: The Baltic Sea Is A Crocodile Eating Finland
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#6 Map Of Tingham, UK
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#7 The United States Drawn Entirely From Memory
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#8 The Earth Before And After Your Opinion
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#9 When Mobile Connections To Russian Networks Revealed Troop Positions
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#10 Really Pleased With My New IKEA Globe That Shows Earth At Night Time
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#11 This Weather Map Perfectly Sums Up How Most Finns Feel
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#12 A Very Serious Dog Map
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#13 How To Be A Terrible Neighbour
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#14 Countries That Declared War On Birds… And Lost
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#15 When You Try To Draw A Straight Line With A Ruler But Your Finger Has Other Pla
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#16 A Pizza Map Of Italy
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#17 What Earth Will Look Like In 250 Million Years, With Today’s Borders
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#18 Cyclist Recreates Nirvana’s Iconic Nevermind Album Cover
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#19 Colossal Squid Sightings Around The World
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#20 U.S. States With More Cows Than People
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#21 Where Johnny Cash Claims To Have Traveled In “I’ve Been Everywhere”
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#22 Map Showing Which Countries Are The Hairiest
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#23 Average Sneeze Speed Across Europe
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#24 The World After An 8,800m Sea Rise
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#25 New Zealand’s Snake Population Density
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#26 Australians When Surprised
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#27 Countries In Europe Whose National Animals Are Extinct Or Mythical
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#28 A Topographic Map Of Africa
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#29 Tiger Ownership Legality By U.S. State
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#30 A Proposed Two-State Solution
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#31 The Most Commonly Used Word In Each State’s Wikipedia Page
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#32 When You Set Out To Map The World But Remember You’re A Chap From 1930s Britain
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#33 Can You Legally Hunt Unicorns In Your State?
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#34 The Earth, But Just Islands
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#35 Kanawyers And Independence Are 20 Miles Apart, But The Road Trip Takes 300 Miles And Six Hours
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#36 The Most Likely Colour Of Your House In Europe
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#37 How European Explorers Saw America In 1492
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#38 States Where You Can Get Arrested For Wrestling A Bear
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#39 The Great Italian Divide
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#40 Countries Googling Google On Google In The Last Day
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#41 Fun Fact: Switzerland Is 18 The Gambias Away From Mongolia
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#42 Is It Possible To Walk To Australia From Your Country?
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#43 This Map Shows How Zealandia Might Look Today If It Had Stayed Above Sea Level
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#44 Did You Know?
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#45 Where You Can Own A Monkey In The USA
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#46 Really Makes You Think
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#47 Countries That Have Fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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#48 U.S. States With The Highest Number Of Venomous Animals
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#49 US States By Paid Sick Leave Laws In 2025
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#50 Can The Name Of This European Country Be Spelled Using Only Periodic Table Elements?
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