Tag: flags

• Who held the map? Twelve centuries of the world in flags

  

  The world map from 800 to 2010, each piece of land filled with the flag of whoever held it. In 1000 no land can honestly be shown with a flag; in 1500, 3.7%; by 2010, 97%.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  data visualisation, empires, flags, history, maps, vexillology, Wikidata