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In the Grand Duchy of Finland, towns tend to be located along the coasts of the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia. Is this indicative of the general pattern of settlement? Does knowing the location of towns explain the geography of Finnish…

One of the questions raised by this map is whether or not the geography of post houses stands in as a map of low population density, or perhaps of negligible state power? After all, the post houses run through the Don Cossack lands, along the…

This layer showcases some of the most fine-grained, mind-bogglingly delicate feature tracing in the entire geodatabase. It contains the boundaries of the 771 inland islands depicted on the atlas. They range in size from a diminuitive 0.13 square…