Sketchy Maps

Map credits

Sketchy Maps is built on open data. Thank you to everyone who makes it.

Country outlines
Natural Earth (public domain), 1:50m countries, via world-atlas.
US state outlines
US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (public domain), via us-atlas.
Cities and capitals
GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Positions and populations come from the GeoNames cities15000 and country-info files.
Landmarks, peaks, islands, lakes, waterfalls and volcanoes
Wikidata, CC0. How well-known a place is comes from its number of Wikipedia language editions, as recorded in Wikidata.
Hints
Written for Sketchy Maps and fact-checked.
Software
The website draws its globe with d3-geo and d3-array by Mike Bostock (ISC license; license text).

Borders and names follow these sources and are not a statement about any territorial claim.