Tap a shape to zoom into it. Double-tap the sea to come back out to the whole world. The depth tracker shows which kind of place you are looking at, from continent down to city.
Tap a shape to zoom into it. Double-tap the sea to come back out to the whole world. The depth tracker shows which kind of place you are looking at, from continent down to city.
Every boundary, river and typeface here came from somewhere. This is where they are from.
Natural Earth — public domain
Made available in GeoJSON form through natural-earth-vector, maintained by Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and Tom Patterson. Natural Earth asks for no attribution at all. It gets some anyway.
us-atlas by Mike Bostock — ISC licence
Derived from the US Census Bureau's cartographic boundary files, which are public domain. Used for the fifty states and the territories, where the shapes are better than the global dataset at this scale.
world-atlas by Mike Bostock — ISC licence
The seven continents are not a dataset anyone publishes; they are the country outlines above, merged along their shared borders and grouped by the United Nations M49 standard.
D3 v7 by Mike Bostock and contributors — ISC licence
The map uses D3's geographic projections, path generator and zoom behaviour. The projection is Natural Earth, by Tom Patterson — chosen over Mercator because a child should not learn that Greenland is the size of Africa. TopoJSON's client, server and simplify tools, also ISC licensed, were used while building the data but are not shipped here.
Inter by Rasmus Andersson, and Plus Jakarta Sans by Tokotype — both SIL Open Font Licence 1.1
Served through Google Fonts. Both cover Vietnamese and Latin Extended, which a world atlas rather depends on.
Some of this map is not from a dataset. The list of cities and their approximate populations was compiled by hand, as were the positions of the ocean and sea names. Three continent labels — Oceania, Europe and Antarctica — are hand-placed, because the automatic answer put Oceania on top of Australia and Europe in Siberia. Nine Vietnamese province names were corrected against the source, which had lost their diacritics.
Natural Earth and the US Census Bureau files are public domain. D3, world-atlas, us-atlas and the TopoJSON tools are ISC licensed. Inter and Plus Jakarta Sans are under the SIL Open Font Licence 1.1. All of those permit this use; the ISC and OFL ones ask that their notices travel with the work, which is what this page is for.
It opens full screen, with no address bar, and it still works without internet.