A painted world, grounded in real places

The artwork is an illustrated interpretation, made for discovery rather than navigation. Every place card includes the sources for its story.

• Country and state boundaries: Natural Earth, public domain.
• City locations: GeoNames cities15000, used under CC BY 4.0. Selected GeoNames records were modified and combined with our artwork and place information.
• Additional coordinates: Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; published coordinate values only), and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Individual sources are recorded with each place.

Illustrated sizes and positions are approximate and exaggerated for discovery. Place descriptions: Their First Maps.