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From census data found here. (pdf)

Also see these maps.

Here’s a great map of the island-country Niue.

According to this guy, we’d be better off with 38 states that look like this:

This is a set of satirical world maps from the WWI era.

A map of free and slaveholding states based on the census of 1850.

This is a high quality restoration of a Ptolemaic map made in 1482. It’s hard to understand what everything is, but fascinating to see how the world was understood at the time. Sign up for a free account to view the map with enhanced zoom.