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Huxley's Country Map of the Great Big World

Real map · 2023 · Great Big World Series

TLDR

The very first map in the Great Big World series, focusing quite naturally on the countries of our wild and crazy world.

Juicy details

Every kid needs a map of the world. But with the quantity of questions asked by the average 4 year-old, how much detail is too much detail? With this map for my son, I tried to simplify all the way down to just the names of countries. No continents. No oceans. And just a handful of additional “need to know” places, such as the cities where his closest relatives live.

Format

Format
Digital Print
Size
27" by 37.5"

Zoomed details

The first Easter Egg was borrowed from a Bean Brew map of yore.
This region of the world is challenging for any budding cartographer!
I became lost in mapping the South Pacific, where many of these island nations are so small they don't actually appear on a world map at this scale.
My first go at a cartographic compass in this series
Go off the edge of the map one way and you come back on the other.
Trying to explain what happens when you get to the edge of a flat map of a round planet to a child.