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Angus McLeod has made the strangest study-aid I think I’ve ever seen.

(via Strange Maps)

Collected in English on one, sometimes illegible, piece of art by Emily Wick. You can also view (and order) individual states.

(via Neatorama)

UPDATE (1/17/2009): Taking a step I was too lazy or careless to, Strange Maps has listed every state motto in Latin and English, and included the story of its conception.

Who says reality 200 years ago has nothing to do with today?

“The divide between the (more free-market) PO and the (more populist) PiS almost exactly follows the old border between Imperial Germany and Imperial Russia, as it ran through Poland! How about that for a long-lasting cultural heritage?!?” How about: amazing, bordering on the unbelievable?

There’s love, and then there’s commissioning a neighborhood in the shape of the profile of your beloved.

Strange Maps points to an interesting one: you can map the northern extent of America’s South by seeing how far north in Virginia McDonald’s has sweet tea.

Neatorama points to some interesting maps. Basically: the total area of the moon covered by the Apollo 11 astronauts was smaller than a soccer field. Or, if they landed on a baseball diamond, they hardly left the infield.

Worst title ever? In any case, Strange Maps has a striking maps of where federally-owned land in located around the United States. You may be surprised to know that Nevada has the most (84.5%), while Connecticut has the least (0.4%). And no, neither number is a typo.

Am I the only one who thinks it’s odd that that no gnomes live in France or Italy?

Further proof that Europeans — admittedly, with some justification — don’t have a clue about the geography of the United States.