Driving through New York City just weeks after the 2001 attacks, Rick Meyerowitz and Maira Kalman were discussing the glut of new and unfamiliar tribal affiliations that were rapidly becoming commonplace among North Americans with little prior understanding of South-Central Asia. The result of that conversation was a map that would become an icon of that period.
Read about the map on
Strange Maps or on
Meyerowitz' own site. Find out what "-stan" really means.
The map calls attention to difference and tribalism both in the far-away and in the familiar. In so doing, the map deeply represents the notion that "
People are more alike than different."
Geography asks three questions:
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