Atlas
Leesko Atlas
An atlas of what cities have in common
Every city over a million people, plus every sovereign capital — arranged by the things they have in common. Not what a city is, but what it shares with the others: a parallel, an offset, an antipode, a twin.
Cities662
Countries198
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- Where the clock disagrees with the sun
Time zones are political. In one city the sun peaks at 14:40; in another, 10:44. Every city in the atlas, ranked.
- The 40th parallel
Madrid and New York sit on the same line. So do Beijing and Naples. Latitude is the fact people get most wrong.
- Twinned cities
Thousands of municipalities have formally paired with each other. The pairings are often strange, and often one-sided.