r/imaginarymaps 2d ago

[OC] Do you guys see the bats? A navigable map of the entire subfamily of Vesper Bats, based on taxonomic data rather than geography.

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This map, Vespertilioninae - Land of Vesper Bats, contains every known living species of vesper bats I could find reliable taxonomic data for. Species are represented as cities, grouped into genera and tribes according to their evolutionary relationships.

Science, design and cartography merge in MAPPA ANIMALIA, a visual project that reimagines the evolutionary relationships of animals as detailed map-like landscapes.

MAPPA ANIMALIA is an ever-growing series of illustrations I’ve created that currently consisting of 16 different maps - each dedicated to a specific family in the animal kingdom.

Instead of political borders or geographic territories, these maps are structured around phylogenetic trees.

Tribes and genera replace countries, states and regions allowing viewers to explore the animal kingdom through a format traditionally used to understand geography.

Additional information includes conservation status, size comparisons between selected species, and the estimated ages of major lineages.

I’ve spent roughly ten years developing and refining this concept, combining zoology, taxonomy, illustration and cartography into a single visual format.

Happy exploring!


r/imaginarymaps 5d ago

[OC] Alternate History What if Mongolia was bigger but not over the top so? | The MPR in 1953 | (OC)

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r/imaginarymaps 4h ago

[OC] Alternate History The Man In The High Castle Geopolitic Cold War (Mix TNO Version)

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This my Fixing version of my old maps in 6 mouth ago. You can see in link shared: https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1qo31cc/the_man_in_the_high_castle_geopolitic_cold_war/

You can click my another my maps in Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RTlGUFF6s1rap7-LNfvcOac1EVCh-LX1?usp=sharing


r/imaginarymaps 8h ago

[OC] Alternate History Nations At War - The Northern Colossus strikes 3-ways from the Heart of Eurasia, 1812 [Napoleonic Wars in The Next Cycle] (High-Res map in comments)

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351 Upvotes

r/imaginarymaps 6h ago

[OC] Alternate History Ethnic map of Empire of Yugoslavia

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249 Upvotes

More like ethnolinguistic tbh but whatever


r/imaginarymaps 7h ago

[OC] Alternate History Map of Europe and North America in the Year of Our Lord 1812

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r/imaginarymaps 6h ago

[OC] Alternate History [The House that never stood] map of the League of America in 1975

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Hi! this is my first post here in the subreddit, I'm pretty new to this thing! This is a map for my scenario where the articles of confederation are kept, and a proper constitution is never made for the United States. Eventually turning the idea of the United States into an alliance called the League of America! You can ask questions down below if you'd like. :) I'll be making more posts about this world in the future!!!

Edit: the title is meant to say 1976, instead of 1975


r/imaginarymaps 7h ago

[OC] Alternate History DBWI: The Red Heart of Europe

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"Das rote Herz Europas" (The red heart of Europe) is a 1931 novel set in an Alternate Timeline where the Entente won the first World War with the main point of divergence being that the assassination of Taft was successful leading to the election of Roosevelt in 1912, who gets the United States involved in the war by 1915. In the waning days of the war, a large soldiers and sailors mutiny turned into a general strike and later into a full blown revolution as the old order was overthrown and replaced by a socialist republic, the first one of it's kind in Europe.

The novel is set in 1929 and follows detective Meyer as he leads an investigation into the death of a high level Russian diplomat which is causing the friction between the Russian Empire and the German Council Republic. As tensions ramp up and the world is pushed to war once again, will he uncover the true motif behind the murder in time?


r/imaginarymaps 3h ago

[OC] Future Simple Detailed Physical Map of Continental Europe, 800x800, Year 2030, Month Septembruary, Favourite Fruit Bananum, Generated with Super Gronk AI

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r/imaginarymaps 6h ago

[OC] Alternate History The Rebellious River Plate

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120 Upvotes

r/imaginarymaps 4h ago

[OC] Alternate History Kingdom of Pechenegia, 2026

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r/imaginarymaps 17m ago

[OC] Alternate History Someone suggested me for making Korean occupied Japan. I took it further. (No lore)

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No lore


r/imaginarymaps 18h ago

[OC] Future Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China

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411 Upvotes

r/imaginarymaps 4h ago

[OC] Sci-fi Helldivers 2: The Fall Of Prosperity | Defeat In 2GW Galactic Map (Concept)

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Helldivers 2: The Second Galactic War (Current Galactic Map): https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1rqzvpg/helldivers_2_the_second_galactic_war_current/

Helldivers 2: The Second Great Democratization | Victory In 2GW Galactic Map (Concept): https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1rsvvum/helldivers_2_the_second_great_democratization/

Helldivers 2: Super Earth World Map | Post 2GW Victory (Sort of Conceptual): https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1u7jf2d/helldivers_2_super_earth_world_map_post_2gw/


r/imaginarymaps 23h ago

[OC] Future Map of English languages (in America) in a textbook I used at school

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r/imaginarymaps 8h ago

[OC] Alternate History The Turkish Commune

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The Turkish Commune emerged as a consequence of the Ottoman Empire's declaration of insolvency in 1875, when it announced that it could no longer meet its foreign debt obligations amid a period of political struggle between the Sultan and constitutionalist statesmen, the devastating Ottoman defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, and, ultimately, the Empire's decision in 1881 to surrender major sources of tax revenue to Britain and France for a period of thirty years in repayment of its debts. More specifically, it arose in response to the Tobacco Régie established in 1883 under this arrangement.

Ottoman producers were required to sell all tobacco, salt, and alcohol they produced to the Régie administration at prices determined by the monopoly. Peasants were forbidden from keeping tobacco for their own consumption without the Régie's permission. A peasant would first be forced to sell his own tobacco to the Régie for three kuruş and then buy it back for ten kuruş. The penalties for transporting tobacco or salt from one village to another without authorization were severe. The Régie maintained its own armed guards, and some sources claim that more than 20,000 Ottoman peasants were shot and killed by Régie enforcers.

These conditions gave rise to a large-scale popular uprising in the Aegean region, the heartland of Anatolia's tobacco production. With the support of the Governor of Aydın, Alfred (Ahmed) Rüstem Bey, the unrest developed into an armed rebellion joined by numerous local military units stationed in the region. Following the Ottoman defeat in 1878, Sultan Abdul Hamid II had dissolved the parliament and sought to consolidate the state under his absolutist rule. Faced with this widespread rebellion, he sought assistance diplomatically by requesting the support of the British fleet stationed in Cyprus in exchange for granting further capitulatory concessions. This humiliating move resulted in the uprising receiving tacit support from constitutionalist statesmen, military officers, and bureaucrats.

Although the rebellion was suppressed in early 1884 with the support of the British Navy, resulting in the deaths of thousands of peasants and the bombardment of Aydın, it came to be known as the Turkish Commune. The movement was named after the populist and Marxist rhetoric embodied by the Turkish bureaucrat Ahmed Rüstem Bey, the indirect support it received from Turkish constitutionalists, and the solidarity extended to it by the international communist public opinion of the time.

The Turkish Commune maintained its existence for one year, from October 1883 to October 1884, during which it possessed its own currency, official newspaper, flag (a plain red banner, and therefore not depicted on the map), and Central Committee. Throughout this period, the Friday khutbah was not read in the name of the Sultan and Caliph anywhere within the Commune's territories in the Aegean. Although it did not receive direct support from high-ranking constitutionalist pashas closely connected to the central bureaucracy, it left a profound impression on the Young Ottomans and intellectual circles that would later shape modern Turkish literature and political thought, influencing figures ranging from Namık Kemal to Ebüzziya Mehmed Tevfik and Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem. Following the suppression of the uprising, Ahmed Rüstem Bey Bilinski -the "Turkish Marx"- fled abroad and continued his opposition for many years, entering history as the leader of the first Turkish communist movement and one of the most prominent Ottoman intellectuals of his age.


r/imaginarymaps 1h ago

[OC] Alternate History I had an idea for a really stupid US Civil War.

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Please comment if you have any questions, I have a disturbing amount of lore for a silly concept like this.


r/imaginarymaps 8h ago

[OC] Alternate History I need to make a chart (digitally) about American History and Politics post 1962 for my History class, what do you guys think about this one I made?

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r/imaginarymaps 1d ago

[OC] Alternate History What if East Germany was worse than North Korea?

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In the spirit of balancing out my recent big Germany map, I made this. Note that this is not supposed to be realistic in any way, although if you have suggestions for change in population density or where the "high agricultural output areas" would be im open to hearing them.

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They shall have their autarky.
– Joseph Stalin, 1946

Following the unconditional surrender of Germany in May 1945, the victorious powers divided the country into four occupation zones. As relations between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union deteriorated, however, Germany soon became one of the first major fronts of the Cold War. Unlike the Western occupation zones, where rebuilding and democratic reforms became the priority, the Soviet Occupation Zone followed a radically different path. Russian authorities adopted what became known as the Sokolovsky Doctrine, based on the belief that German society had been permanently tainted by Prussian militarism and Nazism. According to this view, Germany could never again become a military threat only if it no longer possessed the industry needed to support one. Afterall, without factories, there could be no weapons.

In early 1947, the three Western occupation zones united to form the Federal Republic of Germany. Around the same time, the Soviet Zone was reorganized into the German Agrarian Republic (GAR). The country was cynically divided into 7 administrative "Sectors", each with one “center-townishp” acting as communication centers between each other and the capital. From 1947 onwards, factories, railways, power plants, chemical works, and machine shops across the country were systematically taken apart. Thousands of kilometers of railway track, along with locomotives, industrial equipment, and electrical infrastructure, were removed and transported to the Soviet Union as war reparations. At the same time, East Germany's cities were declared symbols of "bourgeois industrial fascism”. Everyone living outside their historic city centers was forced to leave. Families were typically given just 48 hours to pack their belongings before being forced into the countryside under military supervision, with many dying from starvation or exhaustion. The central government organized this „new rural population” into thousands of “Agrarian Communes”, in practice acting as simple villages. Apart from requiring each commune to deliver around 15-20% of its harvest to what’s left of cities, the state generally left them alone, so long as they met these quotas and caused no political trouble. At the same time, the republic officially embraced “total autarky”, although limited trade with the Soviet Union and some countries in the Eastern Bloc persisted.

As a result of this policy, hospitals, reliable electricity, heating systems, plumbing, and transportation networks disappeared by the mid-1950s. People who had no experience with farming relied on local peasants to learn from. Synthetic fertilizers, tractors, trucks, and all kinds of coal or oil based engines were banned, forcing people to rely on horses, wooden plows, and manual labor to cultivate the land. This transition, from one of Europe's most industrialized countries into an almost entirely agricultural society, was disastrous. From 1947, GAR experienced a demographic collapse unlike anything seen in modern history, with the population more than halved by 1957.

The only place spared from this cruel policy was Sector 0 - Berlin. Surrounded by a heavily guarded Berlin Wall, it became the administrative heart of the republic and home to the ruling Socialist Unity Council. While the countryside was devoid of electricity, modern communications, and mechanized transport, Berlin was allowed to remain somewhat industrialized. While still heavily supervised by Moscow, it was the GAR's only center with proper electricity and heavy industry, producing tools and other equipment for the rest of the country that couldn’t be produced locally. All other, far smaller cities were limited to oil lamps and light industry like textile production, printing, or food processing using simple steam engines. 

By the mid-1960s, the turmoil caused by the forced relocations had largely settled. The country's borders were sealed and surrounded by wide exclusion zones cleared of all civilian settlements, making escape extremely difficult. Inside the GAR, a new rural society had emerged. Most Germans now lived as simple farmers, with little access to modern technology and few opportunities to leave. State propaganda celebrated this way of life through what officials called "Socialist Pastoralism", while posters, newspapers, and schoolbooks portrayed smiling farmers in traditional clothing harvesting crops, raising livestock, and living in harmony with nature. 

As the 1980s approached, the German Agrarian Republic had become one of the world's most unusual states: a country that was forced to abandon industrial society and give way to an almost medieval style of life.


r/imaginarymaps 9h ago

[OC] Comissions Open A recent DND Map Commission I finished! The Territory of New Beldad

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r/imaginarymaps 9h ago

[OC] Hand-Drawn Coal and agritourism town

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r/imaginarymaps 1d ago

[OC] Alternate History The Hanseatic Republic of Dutchland 🇩🇪 ​🇳🇱 ​🚢​ - Aetates Lucis

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Wassup guys ! Welcome to another map, this time the Hanseatic Republic of Dutchland: an Arian Low German merchant republic born out of the medieval Hanseatic League, part of my r/AetatesLucis project (go check it out, it's pretty neat!!) What's there to know?

-There are 4 constituent countries in the republic: Friesland/Frisia, Sexland/Saxony, West Frankland (Low Franconian folks), and Wendland (Polabian Slavs). Wendland has both Wendish and Saxon as official, because of the Ostsiedlung (in this case Saxon farmers and merchants moving east, but here they don't completely assimilate Polabians bc some PoDs I did: the Obodrites are also successful in forming a Christian principality under Thrasco, very loyal to Charlemagne and the forecoming Carolingians (more on this later); and Jaxa is successful creating a Slavic principality in irl Brandeburg)

-The official Christian denomination is Arian Christianity, based on irl Germans adopting it before converting to Catholicism, here that doesn't happen (excluding Goths, Angles, Lombards migrating to majority Catholic Romance or Celtic lands). This means the Carolingian Empire isn't the predecessor to the Holy Roman Empire (which in this timeline is Spain) and the Empire is just known as the Carolingian Empire, including Catholic, Arian and Orthodox lands. (What could the Pope do? He's too busy fighting the Berbers in Spain and even Italy, might do a historical map of the berber pirate states of the early medieval mediterranean)

-Lastly when the Carolingian Empire starts breaking up due to states' centralization (but mainly the Gaulish War), since there's no powerful German state to unite Germany, the Hanseatic League turns into a political, then a confederation, then a full on state. (Triggered by the Gaulish War on Europe - akin to Napoleonic wars, Dutchland was more born from the Gaulish invasions). That's why some states ended up in Gaul (Trier, Luxembourg, Coblence) and Moravia (akin to Bohemia, continuity of the Great Moravia, which got Meissen)

-The Hanseatic League nowadays is something like the European Union, a very close knit alliance of states namely Dutchland, Livonia, Novgorod, some ex Dutch colonies etc

-Lastly the Germanic languages use Germanic runes (I found a very cool font that actually writes in runes by Naeddyr) and the Slavic langs write in Glagolitic (picture the Cyril & Methodius disciples never being expelled from Great Moravia thus Glagolitic roots up there and Moravia becomes one of the 1st Slavic Christian states, whenever the schism happens they already have roots in Byzantine rites thus Slavs in general are orthodox)

-Forgot to address the elephant in the room, that's Doggerland (named Himmerland after the Cimbri)

GEKOLONISEERD ! (Some Dutchman in New Amsterdam, 1624)

----- This map is a remake (the last one I swear) of these 3 past ones

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----- Enjoy and ask anything !


r/imaginarymaps 14h ago

[OC] Hand-Drawn A north american city map

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r/imaginarymaps 1d ago

[OC] Alternate History Spread of Nestorianism in Asia [Hegemony of Christ]

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This is from my world of Hegemony of Christ timeline. In this timeline Islam was never born and Christianity proved much more able in Asia.
Ask me anything


r/imaginarymaps 1d ago

[OC] Alternate History The Western Great Lakes! - A tourist guide

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Come and visit the Western Great Lakes, the greatest nautical wonders this side of the Rocky Mountains!