3/17/2024 0 Comments Karta mira 2015![]() On the one hand, in fear of nuclear war, cartographers hid strategic and relevant cities and shifted various other Soviet cities to an extent that map reviewers might have criticised the accuracy of the map. From that perspective, the production of the Karta Mira appears as an attempt to achieve two opposing aims at once. Avoiding the ongoing debate about so-called ‘map falsification’ in socialist countries, we shifted our methodological approach by conceiving the Karta Mira as a representation of Cold War rivalry in geography and cartography. In our work, we examined the content of selected Karta Mira sheets, particularly the depiction of settlements, competing territorial claims, and place names. After the Second World War, when the prospects of the International Map of the World at a scale of 1:1,000,000 continued to face severe problems, cartographers from socialist countries in Europe produced the Karta Mira, a world map at a scale of 1:2,500,000. Since the late 19th century, the idea of producing a map series that depicts the entire world in a uniform style and at a standardised scale has been a fascinating one. ![]()
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