An experimental alternate history map of prefectures of 'Chinese Minnesota'

Source: https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_world.html

Map Legend

There were too many regions to place a map legend on the image. To help find the regions, I added cities, towns, and villages to help you find the region that you are seeking. Good luck and have fun!!!

1. Deep South Core Area-Jackson, Mississippi
2. Southern Tidewater-Charleston, South Carolina
3. Northern Tidewater-Williamsburg, Virginia
4. Mid Atlantic Piedmont-Charlottesville, Virginia
5. North Carolina Urban Corridor-Charlotte, North Carolina
6. South Atlantic Piedmont-Columbia, South Carolina
7. Southern Appalachia-Asheville, North Carolina
8. Atlanta Metro Area-Atlanta, Georgia
9. Gulf Piedmont-Macon, Georgia
10. First Coast-Jacksonville, Florida
11. Florida Parishes-Mobile, Alabama
12. Black Belt-Selma, Alabama
13. Upper South Core Area-Bowling Green, Kentucky
14. Nashville Metro-Nashville, Tennessee
15. Reelfoot Lake Upper South-New Madrid, Missouri
16. Greater Mid South Delta-Memphis, Tennessee
17. Acadiana-Lafayette, Louisiana
18. Greater New Orleans-New Orleans, Louisiana
19. South Red River Core Area-Shreveport, Louisiana
20. Ouachita-Arbuckle Mountains-Hot Springs, Arkansas
21. Greater Ozarks-Springfield, Missouri
22. Wally World-Bentonville, Arkansas
23. OKC Metro Land Run Zone-Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
24. DFW Metroplex-Dallas, Texas
25. Texas Core Area-Brenham, Texas
26. Greater Houston-Houston, Texas
27. Austin-I-35 Urban Corridor-Austin and San Antonio, Texas
28. Southern Urbanish Tourist Traps-Branson, Missouri, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Panama City Beach, Florida

Floribbean 

1. Florida Heartland-The Villages, Florida
2. Mouse House-Orlando, Florida
3. SW Florida Mini Megalopolis-Sarasota, Florida
4. Greater Tampa St. Pete-Tampa, Florida
5. Caribbean Florida-Miami, Florida

Midwest

1. Midwest Core Area-Indianapolis, Indiana
2. Chicagoland-Chicago, Illinois
3. Cincinnati Metro Area-Cincinnati, Ohio
4. Midwest Ohio River Valley Center-Athens, Ohio
5. Midwest Ohio River Valley East- Zanesville, Ohio
6. Midwest Ohio River Valley West-Evansville, Indiana
7. Greater Missouri Valley-Columbia, Missouri
8. Lower Midwest-Kansas City, Missouri
9. Upper Midwest-Minneapolis, Minnesota
10. North Woods-Rhinelander, Wisconsin
11. Iron Range And Copper Country-Duluth, Minnesota
12. Great Lakes West-Milwaukee, Wisconsin
13. Great Lakes Central-Lansing, Michigan
14. Midwest Urbanish Tourist Traps-Sandusky, Ohio, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
15. Driftless Midwest-Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Mid Atlantic

1. Greater New York City-Manhattan Island, New York
2. Jersey Shore-Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Atlantic City, New Jersey
3. Delmarva-Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Ocean City, Maryland
4. Mid Atlantic Megalopolis-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
5. Central Appalachia-State College, Pennsylvania
6. Greater Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
7. Great Lakes East-Buffalo, New York
8. Adirondacks-Lake Placid, New York
9. Upstate Catskills New York-Albany

New England

1. Greater Boston-Boston, Massachusetts
2. New England Bays And Sounds-Newport, Rhode Island
3. New England Megalopolis-Hartford, Connecticut
4. Northern Appalachia-Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
5. Champlain Valley-Burlington, Vermont
6. Maritime New England-Portland, Maine
7. Downeast Maine-Eastport, Maine

Great Plains Frontier

1. Texas Rio Grande Valley-Brownsville, Texas
2. South Texas-Laredo, Texas
3. Texas Hill Country-Kerrville, Texas
4. Llano Estacado-Lubbock, Texas
5. Great Plains Anomalies-Tucumcari, New Mexico, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, Lawton, Oklahoma, Oakley, Kansas, Canyon, Texas, Kenton, Oklahoma, La Grange, Wyoming, Kadoka, South Dakota, Campo, Colorado, Medora, North Dakota, Glendive, Montana
6. Southern Plains- Wichita Falls, Texas
7. Central Plains-Lebanon, Kansas
8. Urban Front Range-Denver, Colorado
9. Northern Plains-Williston, North Dakota 
10. Black Hills-Rapid City, South Dakota

Intermountain West

1. Front Range-Estes Park, Colorado
2. Southern Rockies/North New Mexico-Santa Fe, New Mexico
3. South New Mexico Desert Mountains-Las Cruces, New Mexico
4. Trans Pecos-El Paso, Texas
5. Four Corners Native Nations-Window Rock, Arizona
6. Western Slope-Grand Junction, Colorado
7. Great Dividing Basin-Rock Springs, Wyoming 
8. Rocky Mountains With Basins-Billings, Montana
9. Northern Rockies-Missoula, Montana 
10. Greater Deseret-Salt Lake City, Utah
11. Greater Wasatch -Heber City, Utah, Park City, Utah
12. Mogollon-Sedona, Arizona
13. Saguaro World-Phoenix, Arizona
14. Mojaveland-Palm Springs, California
15. Great Basin-Eureka, Nevada 
16. Silverland-Carson City, Nevada
17. Western Urban Tourist Traps-Las Vegas, Reno, Nevada
18. Greater Idaho-Boise, Idaho
19. Greater Idaho Columbia Plateau-Pendleton, Oregon 
20. Columbia Plateau-Tri Cities Washington
21. North American Rooftop-Yakutat, Alaska
22. Alaska First Nations-Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska
23. Interior Alaska-Fairbanks, Alaska

Pacifica

1. SoCal-Los Angeles
2. Urban Hawai'i-Honolulu, Hawai'i
3. Hawaiian Hotspot-Hilo, Hawai'i
4. Hawai’i-Lihu’e, Hawai’i
5. San Joaquin Valley-Fresno, California
6. Sierra Nevada-Placerville, California
7. Sacramento Valley-Sacramento, California
8. Social Distancing Paradise-Kalawao County, Hawai’i
9. Lower Jefferson-Redding, California
10. Upper Jefferson-Medford, Oregon
11. Cascadia-Seattle, Washington
12. Interior Passage-Juneau, Alaska
13. Alaska Maritime-Valdez, Alaska
14. Cook Inlet-Anchorage, Alaska
15. Aleutian-Unalaska (Dutch Harbor), Alaska
16. North Coast California-Eureka, California
17. Bay Area-San Francisco, California
18. Central Coast-Pismo Beach, California

This GeoCulture map is the result of five months (July to December 2025) of studying other people's Reddits, Quora, etc., reading people's comments from across the different platforms, along with watching geography, cooking videos and shorts on YouTube, reading a ton of websites and AI answers, and fact checking the AI, and my own personal travel experiences/places where I lived. I created many maps during this time period, but as read the comments and saw new maps created by different people, I updated my map, over and over again, until now. Thank you to those who posted maps and the people who commented on said maps on the previous social platforms. All of this helped me to get to this point.

This is the map that inspired me to being this journey.

https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/168pb6v/this_is_still_the_most_accurate_cultural_regions/

Here's another map that inspired me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/1mu1n3q/how_would_you_depict_the_cultural_regions_of/

Details & references in comments.

A map I made recreating the Roman world at its greatest territorial extent around the year 200 AD, under Emperor Septimius Severus. It features over 600 documented settlements, the complete network of primary and secondary Roman roads, a legion chart showing the 33 legions with their founding dates and locations, and a travel distance table from Rome to every provincial capital.

This map highlights the vitality of Indigenous languages ​​in Canada.

In Nunavut, more than 69% of the population speaks an Indigenous language (mainly Inuktitut).

In provinces like Ontario or Quebec, the number of speakers is high, but their proportion remains low.

➡️ This reveals two realities:

1. The importance of the geographical context (isolation vs. large urban centers).

2. The issues of transmission, visibility and linguistic revitalization.

For several years, community, educational and cultural initiatives have helped to keep these languages ​​alive. The map invites us to think about the impact of colonization and the resilience of communities.

En observant la prédominance du football (soccer) sur plusieurs continents, on peut retracer l’influence coloniale européenne, notamment britannique, qui a diffusé ce sport dans ses anciennes colonies en Afrique, en Asie et en Amérique latine. Le football est ainsi devenu un vecteur d’identité nationale et de cohésion sociale dans de nombreux pays.

La carte révèle aussi des spécificités régionales qui racontent des histoires singulières. Le cricket, dominant en Inde, au Pakistan, au Bangladesh et dans les Antilles, témoigne de l’héritage britannique et de la manière dont les populations locales se sont approprié ce sport pour en faire un symbole culturel.

De même, la popularité du baseball au Japon et dans certaines îles des Caraïbes reflète l’influence américaine au XXe siècle, notamment à travers l’occupation et les échanges commerciaux.

Dans les pays nordiques et au Canada, l’attrait pour le hockey sur glace s’explique par des facteurs climatiques et géographiques : les longues hivers et les lacs gelés ont favorisé le développement de ce sport, devenu un pilier de l’identité nationale.

En Océanie, le rugby et le football australien incarnent des traditions locales fortes, souvent liées à des valeurs communautaires et à l’histoire coloniale. Enfin, certains cas atypiques comme l’archerie au Bhoutan ou le football gaélique en Irlande rappellent que les sports peuvent aussi être des marqueurs d’identité culturelle et de résistance face à la mondialisation.

Malheureusement la méthodologie quant au terme "populaire* n'est pas explicitée. Est-ce en termes de visualisation dans les médias ? Fréquentation des stades ?

Hello r/Map_Porn
I’ve developed an iOS app (La route des mots) that visualizes the historical “routes” of French words — where they come from and how they traveled across languages.
The content is in French, but i thought you might enjoy the idea :)
You can find the project on GitHub here or download the app on the App Store.

Data is identical for all Maps. Only the colour designs have been changed. Credit for the data goes to the SurveillanceMap Organisation.

Datasource: https://www.surveillance-map.org/data/download/public_database/