Topologist's Map of the World

Reddit user xilefakamot created this in 2020 - a “topologist's map of the world.” It depicts international borders and nothing else - the shapes, sizes, and distances between countries are forsaken in order to present the pattern of their borders as efficiently as possible.

Methodology

“No calculations per se - I sketched out a series of networks showing which countries bordered each other, then gradually smoothed them out to make the map - all done manually.”

(Via MapPorn.)