Map Showing Where Today’s Countries Would Be Located on Pangea

The super­con­ti­nent of Pangea formed some 270 mil­lion years ago, dur­ing the Ear­ly Per­mi­an Peri­od, and then began to break up 70 mil­lion years lat­er, even­tu­al­ly yield­ing the con­ti­nents we inhab­it today. Pangea was, of course, a peo­ple­less place. But if you were to drop today’s nations on that great land mass, here’s what it might look like. (Click on the image to view it in a much larg­er, high res­o­lu­tion for­mat.) The map’s cre­ator is Mas­si­mo Pietrobon, some­one who play­ful­ly describes him­self as “a famous explor­er and car­tog­ra­ph­er of Atlantis,” and who has tak­en on oth­er exper­i­ments with maps in the past. When some­one claimed that the scale of cer­tain coun­tries was­n’t exact­ly right, Mas­si­mo was quick to con­fess on his blog, “Yes, it’s just a tri­al, it can be bet­ter.” But it’s a cre­ative start.

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