You are probably pretty familiar with maps of the world, especially maps of the English-speaking world. But if history had been a little different, our maps might now be very different. What would Europe look like if the Nazis had won World War II? Hitler had a map for that. What would have happened to the U.S. if Germany had won World War I -with the help of Mexico? There’s a map for that, too. Where would Africa’s national boundaries be if the continent had never been colonized by Western powers? It might look like Nikolaj Cyon’s vision of national divisions along ethnic boundaries. Vox has twenty maps that give us a glimpse of alternate history, including the 1998 map shown above of how at least one Russian envisions the economic breakup of the United States.
Whatever obsessed Napoleon with Russia seems to exist in US/Canada relations, too.