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Map of an upside down world

May 21, 2025

While we’re on maps oriented in unfamiliar ways, Robert Simmon made an upside down world map as a reminder that there is no real top or bottom on this planet. We’re just a spinning globe floating around in space.

The map is available in print. (Thanks, Zan.)

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