We’ve decided to develop a map-guessing game that turns much of our existing content into an interactive experience.
The goal is simple: grow our brand while making geography education more engaging and fun.
What would you like to see in the game? Any ideas or features you’d love to play?

In just 33 years, Europe went from barely touching Africa to owning almost all of it — the Scramble for Africa in two maps.

Russia 143.5 million, Turkey 85.9, Germany 83.5, UK 69.5, France 68.7, Spain 49.4. Iceland: 0.4. Europe's population, country by country.

About 85% of Australians live within 50 km of the coast, leaving the vast interior of the continent almost empty.

The Golden Horde stretches endlessly east while the Holy Roman Empire and a young Kingdom of Hungary hold the center — high medieval Europe in full color.

1492 is remembered for Columbus. On the map of Europe the same year also closed Muslim rule in Iberia and expelled Jews from Spain.

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6/ Meanwhile in the north, Denmark, Norway and Sweden were still joined in the Kalmar Union, founded in 1397. Sweden left for good in 1523, when Gustav Vasa was elected king.

One year, three very different turning points. Which one do you think mattered most? Follow @forummapping for more maps like this.

Baroque was the Counter-Reformation's answer to austerity: drama, gold and motion. It reached from Rome to Moscow — the widest spread of any European style.

Ethiopia's Ge'ez script has been in continuous use for over 2,000 years — one of the oldest alphabets still written daily.

Germany still had over 60 million people right after losing a world war — the population numbers behind interwar Europe might surprise you.

The Ottoman Empire lasted 623 years (1299–1922) — longer than the entire history of most modern nations.

One assassination away from catastrophe: this is the tangled alliance system that turned a regional dispute into a world war.

Europeans searched for a Northwest Passage through the Arctic for centuries; it wasn't successfully sailed until Roald Amundsen finally did it, in 1903-1906.

Before Spain and Portugal as we know them, Iberia was split between Christian kingdoms and the Almohad Caliphate.

Verdun, the Somme, Tannenberg, Caporetto. Each name on this map of World War I battles carries a number that still shocks. Here are six.

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6/ In Italian, 'Caporetto' now means a disastrous defeat. Italy replaced Cadorna with Armando Diaz, and the line held on the Piave.

Behind each dot on the map is a different kind of defeat. Which battle do you think changed the war most? Follow @forummapping for more maps like this.