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 The Purr-Fect Map Image credits: TerribleMaps #2 No One Trolls With Street Names Quite Like Prague Image credits: TerribleMaps #3 Fun Fact: The Baltic Sea Is A Crocodile Eating Finland Image credits: TerribleMaps #4 Map Of Africa Made From Orange Peel Image credits: TerribleMaps #5 Now It Makes Sense Image credits: Terrible Maps #6 Map Of Tingham, UK Image credits: TerribleMaps #7 The United States Drawn Entirely From Memory Image credits: TerribleMaps #8 The Earth Before And After Your Opinion Image credits: Terrible Maps #9 Really Pleased With My New IKEA Globe That Shows Earth At Night Time Image credits: Terrible Maps #10 This Weather Map Perfectly Sums Up How Most Finns Feel Image credits: TerribleMaps #11 When Mobile Connections To Russian Networks Revealed Troop Positions Image credits: TerribleMaps #12 When You Try To Draw A Straight Line With A Ruler But Your Finger Has Other Pla Image credits: TerribleMaps #13 A Pizza Map Of Italy Image credits: Terrible Maps #14 A Very Serious Dog Map Image credits: TerribleMaps #15 What Earth Will Look Like In 250 Million Years, With Today’s Borders Image credits: TerribleMaps #16 Countries That Declared War On Birds… And Lost Image credits: TerribleMaps #17 How To Be A Terrible Neighbour Image credits: TerribleMaps #18 Colossal Squid Sightings Around The World Image credits: TerribleMaps #19 Cyclist Recreates Nirvana’s Iconic Nevermind Album Cover Image credits: TerribleMaps #20 Map Showing Which Countries Are The Hairiest Image credits: TerribleMaps #21 A Proposed Two-State Solution Image credits: TerribleMaps #22 The World After An 8,800m Sea Rise Image credits: TerribleMaps #23 U.S. States With More Cows Than People Image credits: TerribleMaps #24 A Topographic Map Of Africa Image credits: Terrible Maps #25 Australians When Surprised Image credits: Terrible Maps #26 Average Sneeze Speed Across Europe Image credits: TerribleMaps #27 New Zealand’s Snake Population Density Image credits: TerribleMaps #28 Where Johnny Cash Claims To Have Traveled In “I’ve Been Everywhere” Image credits: TerribleMaps #29 Tiger Ownership Legality By U.S. State Image credits: TerribleMaps #30 Countries Googling Google On Google In The Last Day Image credits: TerribleMaps #31 When You Set Out To Map The World But Remember You’re A Chap From 1930s Britain Image credits: TerribleMaps #32 How European Explorers Saw America In 1492 Image credits: TerribleMaps #33 The Great Italian Divide Image credits: TerribleMaps #34 The Most Commonly Used Word In Each State’s Wikipedia Page Image credits: TerribleMaps #35 Is It Possible To Walk To Australia From Your Country? Image credits: TerribleMaps #36 This Map Shows How Zealandia Might Look Today If It Had Stayed Above Sea Level Image credits: TerribleMaps #37 Kanawyers And Independence Are 20 Miles Apart, But The Road Trip Takes 300 Miles And Six Hours Image credits: TerribleMaps #38 The Most Likely Colour Of Your House In Europe Image credits: TerribleMaps #39 States Where You Can Get Arrested For Wrestling A Bear Image credits: TerribleMaps #40 Did You Know? Image credits: TerribleMaps #41 Can You Legally Hunt Unicorns In Your State? Image credits: TerribleMaps #42 The Earth, But Just Islands Image credits: TerribleMaps #43 Countries That Have Fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Image credits: TerribleMaps #44 Countries In Europe Whose National Animals Are Extinct Or Mythical Image credits: TerribleMaps #45 Fun Fact: Switzerland Is 18 The Gambias Away From Mongolia Image credits: TerribleMaps #46 Where You Can Own A Monkey In The USA Image credits: TerribleMaps #47 Can The Name Of This European Country Be Spelled Using Only Periodic Table Elements? Image credits: TerribleMaps #48 Exactly Image credits: Terrible Maps #49 U.S. States With The Highest Number Of Venomous Animals Image credits: TerribleMaps #50 US States By Paid Sick Leave Laws In 2025 Image credits: TerribleMaps #51 Am I The Only One Who Sees An Elephant Doing The Front Crawl When I Look At The Mediterranean? Image credits: TerribleMaps #52 Present-Day Ghana vs. Where The Ghana Empire Actually Was Image credits: TerribleMaps #53 Americans Were Asked To Identify The UK On A World Map Image credits: TerribleMaps #54 Density Of Pig Farms Across Europe Image credits: TerribleMaps #55 Historical And Present Distribution Of Lions Image credits: TerribleMaps #56 You Can Sail In A Straight Line From Georgia To Georgia Image credits: TerribleMaps #57 First To Open In Each State: Target Or Walmart Image credits: TerribleMaps #58 Rule Brie-Tannia: God Save The Cream Image credits: TerribleMaps #59 Prisons vs. Colleges By US State Image credits: TerribleMaps #60 Countries Featured In Poland’s Anthem Image credits: TerribleMaps #61 Berlin Is Approximately 7 Belgiums Away From Moscow Image credits: TerribleMaps #62 Really Makes You Think Image credits: TerribleMaps #63 Every State’s Most Disturbing Sports Mascot Image credits: TerribleMaps #64 The Neighborhoods Of New York City Image credits: TerribleMaps #65 The Drive So Dull Only Midwesterners Survive It Image credits: TerribleMaps #66 Stereotype Map Of New England Image credits: TerribleMaps #67 Wyoming Has A Lower Population Than The Other 49 States Combined Image credits: TerribleMaps #68 How Many New Mexicos Fit Inside Mexico Image credits: TerribleMaps #69 I Mean, I’ve Seen Worse Ideas Image credits: TerribleMaps #70 Pluto vs. The State Of Alaska Image credits: TerribleMaps #71 The Size Of Texas Compared To The Moon And Dwarf Planets Image credits: TerribleMaps #72 The Shortest Route From Santiago, Chile To Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Image credits: TerribleMaps #73 The Top “Why Is [state] So…” Question For Each Aussie State Image credits: TerribleMaps #74 Countries Where The Local Name Is Extremely Different From The English Version Image credits: TerribleMaps #75 States Where Lassoing Fish Is Illegal Image credits: TerribleMaps #76 A Map Of Every Country That Starts With A Capital Letter Image credits: TerribleMaps #77 What France’s Borders Looked Like Briefly In 1866 Image credits: TerribleMaps #78 How Many Brazils Fit Into Switzerland Image credits: TerribleMaps #79 Map Of What Europeans Think Is The ‘South’ In The USA Image credits: TerribleMaps #80 Map Of The Donbas Region Putin Proposed Ukraine Should Cede In Exchange For Ending The Fighting Image credits: TerribleMaps #81 The Legality Of Flamethrower Ownership In The United States Image credits: TerribleMaps #82 A Useful Map For New Yorkers In La Image credits: TerribleMaps #83 What A Masterpiece. Absolute Chaos - Couldn't Have Designed It Better Myself. If You’re English, You Know Image credits: TerribleMaps #84 U.S. States With The Most (And Least) Attractive People Image credits: TerribleMaps #85 Does Your State Or Province Share Its Name With A Street In Chicago? Image credits: TerribleMaps #86 The EU, But Every Country Is The UK Image credits: TerribleMaps #87 States Most Likely To Survive An Alien Invasion Image credits: TerribleMaps #88 Which State Has The Worst License Plate? Image credits: TerribleMaps #89 A Flag Map Of Europe Where Each Country Is Shown With The Flag Of The Nation It Shares Its Shortest Land Border With Image credits: TerribleMaps “Average Sneeze Speed”: 89 “Terrible Maps” That Make A Hilarious Mockery Of Geography (New Pics)

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 The Purr-Fect Map

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#2 No One Trolls With Street Names Quite Like Prague

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#3 Fun Fact: The Baltic Sea Is A Crocodile Eating Finland

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#4 Map Of Africa Made From Orange Peel

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#5 Now It Makes Sense

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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 Really Pleased With My New IKEA Globe That Shows Earth At Night Time

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#10 This Weather Map Perfectly Sums Up How Most Finns Feel

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#11 When Mobile Connections To Russian Networks Revealed Troop Positions

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#12 When You Try To Draw A Straight Line With A Ruler But Your Finger Has Other Pla

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#13 A Pizza Map Of Italy

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#14 A Very Serious Dog Map

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#15 What Earth Will Look Like In 250 Million Years, With Today’s Borders

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#16 Countries That Declared War On Birds… And Lost

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#17 How To Be A Terrible Neighbour

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#18 Colossal Squid Sightings Around The World

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#19 Cyclist Recreates Nirvana’s Iconic Nevermind Album Cover

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#20 Map Showing Which Countries Are The Hairiest

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#21 A Proposed Two-State Solution

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#22 The World After An 8,800m Sea Rise

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#23 U.S. States With More Cows Than People

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#24 A Topographic Map Of Africa

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#25 Australians When Surprised

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#26 Average Sneeze Speed Across Europe

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#27 New Zealand’s Snake Population Density

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#28 Where Johnny Cash Claims To Have Traveled In “I’ve Been Everywhere”

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#29 Tiger Ownership Legality By U.S. State

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#30 Countries Googling Google On Google In The Last Day

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#31 When You Set Out To Map The World But Remember You’re A Chap From 1930s Britain

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#32 How European Explorers Saw America In 1492

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#33 The Great Italian Divide

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#34 The Most Commonly Used Word In Each State’s Wikipedia Page

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#35 Is It Possible To Walk To Australia From Your Country?

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#36 This Map Shows How Zealandia Might Look Today If It Had Stayed Above Sea Level

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#37 Kanawyers And Independence Are 20 Miles Apart, But The Road Trip Takes 300 Miles And Six Hours

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#38 The Most Likely Colour Of Your House In Europe

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#39 States Where You Can Get Arrested For Wrestling A Bear

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#40 Did You Know?

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#41 Can You Legally Hunt Unicorns In Your State?

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#42 The Earth, But Just Islands

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#43 Countries That Have Fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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#44 Countries In Europe Whose National Animals Are Extinct Or Mythical

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#45 Fun Fact: Switzerland Is 18 The Gambias Away From Mongolia

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#46 Where You Can Own A Monkey In The USA

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#47 Can The Name Of This European Country Be Spelled Using Only Periodic Table Elements?

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#48 Exactly

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#49 U.S. States With The Highest Number Of Venomous Animals

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#50 US States By Paid Sick Leave Laws In 2025

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#51 Am I The Only One Who Sees An Elephant Doing The Front Crawl When I Look At The Mediterranean?

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#52 Present-Day Ghana vs. Where The Ghana Empire Actually Was

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#53 Americans Were Asked To Identify The UK On A World Map

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#54 Density Of Pig Farms Across Europe

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#55 Historical And Present Distribution Of Lions

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#56 You Can Sail In A Straight Line From Georgia To Georgia

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#57 First To Open In Each State: Target Or Walmart

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#58 Rule Brie-Tannia: God Save The Cream

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#59 Prisons vs. Colleges By US State

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#60 Countries Featured In Poland’s Anthem

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#61 Berlin Is Approximately 7 Belgiums Away From Moscow

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#62 Really Makes You Think

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#63 Every State’s Most Disturbing Sports Mascot

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#64 The Neighborhoods Of New York City

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#65 The Drive So Dull Only Midwesterners Survive It

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#66 Stereotype Map Of New England

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#67 Wyoming Has A Lower Population Than The Other 49 States Combined

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#68 How Many New Mexicos Fit Inside Mexico

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#69 I Mean, I’ve Seen Worse Ideas

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#70 Pluto vs. The State Of Alaska

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#71 The Size Of Texas Compared To The Moon And Dwarf Planets

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#72 The Shortest Route From Santiago, Chile To Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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#73 The Top “Why Is [state] So…” Question For Each Aussie State

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#74 Countries Where The Local Name Is Extremely Different From The English Version

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#75 States Where Lassoing Fish Is Illegal

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#76 A Map Of Every Country That Starts With A Capital Letter

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#77 What France’s Borders Looked Like Briefly In 1866

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#78 How Many Brazils Fit Into Switzerland

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#79 Map Of What Europeans Think Is The ‘South’ In The USA

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#80 Map Of The Donbas Region Putin Proposed Ukraine Should Cede In Exchange For Ending The Fighting

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#81 The Legality Of Flamethrower Ownership In The United States

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#82 A Useful Map For New Yorkers In La

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#83 What A Masterpiece. Absolute Chaos - Couldn't Have Designed It Better Myself. If You’re English, You Know

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#84 U.S. States With The Most (And Least) Attractive People

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#85 Does Your State Or Province Share Its Name With A Street In Chicago?

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#86 The EU, But Every Country Is The UK

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#87 States Most Likely To Survive An Alien Invasion

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#88 Which State Has The Worst License Plate?

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#89 A Flag Map Of Europe Where Each Country Is Shown With The Flag Of The Nation It Shares Its Shortest Land Border With

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