Where these things are

area

— A region, drawn as one. The centre is not a location.

point

— A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.

soft

— A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.

waypoint

— A stop on a route. A single point does not describe it.

• Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele) — approximate
• The Luzon Strait — regional
• The Red Sea cable corridor — regional
• The Strait of Malacca — regional
• Ahmedabad — approximate
• Aksum — approximate
• Alexandria — approximate
• Antioch on the Orontes — exact
• Berlin — approximate
• Birmingham — approximate
• Boston — approximate
• Brasília — approximate
• Bukhara — exact
• Canberra — approximate
• Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou — approximate
• Carthage — approximate
• Chang'an — approximate
• Chicago — approximate
• Constantinople — approximate
• Córdoba — approximate
• Curitiba — approximate
• Dunhuang — exact
• Goa — approximate
• Havana — approximate
• Istanbul — approximate
• Jakarta — approximate
• Jerusalem (Old City) — approximate
• Kashgar — exact
• Lagos — approximate
• Lisbon — approximate
• Liverpool — approximate
• Londinium — approximate
• London — approximate
• Malacca (Melaka) — approximate
• Manaus — approximate
• Manchester — approximate
• Manila — approximate
• Marka (Merca), Somalia — approximate
• Marseille — approximate
• Mecca (Makkah) — approximate
• Medellín — approximate
• Merv — exact
• Moscow — approximate
• New Orleans — approximate
• New York City — approximate
• Nusantara — approximate
• Paris — approximate
• Potosí — approximate
• Rio de Janeiro — approximate
• Rome — exact
• Samarkand — exact
• Seville — approximate
• Shanghai — approximate
• Singapore — approximate
• Songdo — approximate
• Tenochtitlan — approximate
• Tokyo — approximate
• Vladivostok — approximate
• Xi'an — exact
• Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor — route
• Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) — regional
• Gulf Stream — route
• Humboldt (Peru–Chile) Current — route
• Kuroshio — route
• Berlin Marathon — route
• Boston Marathon — route
• Chicago Marathon — route
• London Marathon — route
• New York City Marathon — route
• Tokyo Marathon — route
• AlphaFold Protein Structure Database — approximate
• Lagos Blue Line — approximate
• Metrocable Line K, Medellín — approximate
• Basque (Euskara) — regional
• Malagasy — regional
• Australian Institute of Marine Science — approximate
• Arctic Council — approximate
• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority — approximate
• ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) — approximate
• INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) — approximate
• International Telecommunication Union — approximate
• IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) — approximate
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory — approximate
• UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) — exact
• World Health Organization — approximate
• Amboseli National Park — approximate
• Chobe National Park — approximate
• Etosha National Park — regional
• Hwange National Park — approximate
• Kruger National Park — approximate
• Maasai Mara National Reserve — approximate
• Ngorongoro Conservation Area — regional
• Okavango Delta — regional
• Serengeti National Park — approximate
• El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) — approximate
• Acapulco — approximate
• Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead — approximate
• New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59) — approximate
• Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage — approximate
• Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44) — approximate
• ITER — exact
• Joint European Torus (JET) — exact
• National Ignition Facility — exact
• Anatolia — regional
• Antarctica — regional
• Arctic Ocean — regional
• Assam — regional
• Cuba — regional
• Darjeeling — approximate
• The Fulda Gap — regional
• Western Corridor and Grumeti Reserves — regional
• Labrador Sea — approximate
• The Moluccas (Maluku Islands) — regional
• Ngorongoro Conservation Area — Western Plains — regional
• Northern Virginia data-centre corridor — approximate
• Ogliastra and the Nuoro highlands, Sardinia — regional
• Okinawa — regional
• The Pontic–Caspian steppe — regional
• Southern Serengeti Short-Grass Plains — regional
• South Georgia — approximate
• Taiwan — regional
• Weddell Sea — approximate
• Yunnan — regional
• Zambezi River — route
• The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum) — regional
• Abu Simbel temples (Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae) — exact
• Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array — approximate
• Angkor — regional
• Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman (delisted 2007) — regional
• Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) — approximate
• Baikonur Cosmodrome — approximate
• Bayan Obo mining district — approximate
• Bhadla Solar Park — approximate
• The Bornholmer Strasse crossing — approximate
• Borobudur — approximate
• Bottaccione Gorge, Gubbio — approximate
• The Broad Street pump, Soho — approximate
• Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park — approximate
• Burj Khalifa — approximate
• Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral — approximate
• Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — approximate
• Cape of Good Hope — approximate
• Challenger Deep — approximate
• Chartres Cathedral — approximate
• Checkpoint Charlie — approximate
• Chengjiang fossil site, Yunnan — approximate
• Chichen Itza — approximate
• Chicxulub impact crater, Yucatán — approximate
• Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro — exact
• Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome — exact
• Congo Square, New Orleans — approximate
• Costa Rica Thermal Dome — approximate
• Cromford Mill — approximate
• Denmark Strait Sill — approximate
• Drake Passage — approximate
• Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009) — regional
• Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, Pilbara — regional
• DSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex — approximate
• Durham Cathedral — approximate
• Ediacara Hills, Flinders Ranges — approximate
• Eko Atlantic — approximate
• Enewetak Atoll — approximate
• Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax — approximate
• Fortune Head GSSP, Newfoundland — approximate
• Francevillian Basin, Gabon — regional
• Galápagos Islands — regional
• Galapagos Rift — approximate
• Gare de l'Est, Paris — approximate
• Gemini North telescope, Maunakea — approximate
• Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex — approximate
• Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso — approximate
• Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu) — exact
• Great Wall of China — route
• Grytviken Whaling Station — approximate
• Guiana Space Centre, Kourou — approximate
• Hadrian's Wall — approximate
• Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul — approximate
• Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast — approximate
• Hattusa (Boğazkale) — approximate
• The Heart's Content cable station — approximate
• Home Insurance Building, Chicago — approximate
• The Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale — approximate
• Isua supracrustal belt, southwest Greenland — regional
• Kamioka Observatory, Mozumi mine — approximate
• John F. Kennedy Space Center — approximate
• Kilwa Kisiwani — approximate
• Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A — exact
• Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B — approximate
• Landing Zone 1, Cape Canaveral — approximate
• Leptis Magna — approximate
• Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos) — approximate
• LIGO Hanford Observatory — approximate
• LIGO Livingston Observatory — approximate
• Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021) — approximate
• Bahia de Loreto National Park — approximate
• Machu Picchu — approximate
• Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex — approximate
• Makoko — approximate
• Marathon and the Tumulus of the Athenians — exact
• Mariana Trench — approximate
• Mausoleum at Halicarnassus — exact
• McMurdo Station — approximate
• Meeting of the Waters (Encontro das Aguas) — approximate
• Meishan GSSP, Changxing, Zhejiang — approximate
• Mogao Caves — exact
• Moss Landing battery storage complex — approximate
• Nevado Mismi — approximate
• Notre-Dame de Paris — approximate
• Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, Nunavik — regional
• Ostia Antica — approximate
• Site of Palmyra — approximate
• The Pantheon, Rome — approximate
• Petra — approximate
• Philae temple complex (relocated to Agilkia Island) — approximate
• Pikialasorsuaq (the North Water Polynya) — regional
• Point Conception — exact
• Pont du Gard — exact
• Porthcurno cable station — approximate
• Raja Ampat — approximate
• Basilica of Saint-Denis — approximate
• Salar de Atacama — approximate
• Siberian Traps large igneous province — regional
• Simplon Tunnel — approximate
• Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul — approximate
• Statue of Zeus at Olympia — approximate
• Stegra green steel plant, Boden — approximate
• Stonehenge — approximate
• Taj Mahal — exact
• Tempelhof Airport — approximate
• Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision) — exact
• Timbuktu — approximate
• Titanic wreck site — exact
• Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae — approximate
• Turfan oasis — approximate
• The Valentia Island cable station — approximate
• Venice and its Lagoon — regional
• Paranal Observatory and the GRAVITY interferometer — approximate
• Vostok Station — approximate
• Waldschlösschen Bridge, Dresden — approximate
• White City Stadium — approximate
• Windsor Castle — approximate
• Yaroslavsky Station, Moscow — approximate

37 objects are on another body and cannot be drawn here — their coordinates are in a different reference frame, and placing them on Earth would put them somewhere they have never been. Open the Moon →

865 produced objects have no coordinate at all. A programme, a treaty, a vessel under way and an idea are not places, and none of them is given a position here to fill the screen. See how they relate instead →

• Titanic — 24 without a coordinate
• Apollo to Artemis — 21 without a coordinate
• Silk Road — 25 without a coordinate
• Fusion Energy — 17 without a coordinate
• The Great Migration — 12 without a coordinate
• How Tea Moved — 13 without a coordinate
• Wonders of the Ancient and Modern World — 6 without a coordinate
• Descent: Surface to Hadal Zone — 16 without a coordinate
• How Belief Travelled — 11 without a coordinate
• Roman Empire — 12 without a coordinate
• Safari Across Africa — 11 without a coordinate
• UNESCO World Heritage — 7 without a coordinate
• Age of Exploration — 25 without a coordinate
• Amazon Rainforest — 27 without a coordinate
• Approaching a Black Hole — 26 without a coordinate
• Architecture Through Time — 17 without a coordinate
• Blue Whale Migration — 25 without a coordinate
• The Cables Beneath — 25 without a coordinate
• Cold War — 28 without a coordinate
• Coral Reefs — 25 without a coordinate
• Energy Transition — 25 without a coordinate
• Evolution of Life — 18 without a coordinate
• Future Cities — 17 without a coordinate
• The Great Marathons — 15 without a coordinate
• Industrial Revolution — 29 without a coordinate
• The Language Families — 31 without a coordinate
• Life at the Poles — 21 without a coordinate
• Life of a Star — 29 without a coordinate
• Longevity — 30 without a coordinate
• Luxury Rail Across Continents — 23 without a coordinate
• Music Across Continents — 34 without a coordinate
• Ocean Currents — 20 without a coordinate
• Space Economy — 30 without a coordinate
• Voyager: Still Going — 28 without a coordinate
• What AI Changes — 29 without a coordinate
• Reaching the Moon — 81 without a coordinate
• Reaching the planets — 32 without a coordinate