Propaganda maps are maps that are created to influence viewers in a certain way. Propaganda maps can be created through the manipulation of scale, projection, and design and layout and are used to sway opinion or spread a certain way of thinking. Maps are ideally supposed to be objective depictions of reality, but they can also be used as an instrument of propaganda, portraying the world not as it is but as it is imagined by the cartographer. As shown in the exemplified propaganda map, the shapes of countries, sometimes accurate and sometimes twisted and bended, are typically overlaid by images of people, dressed in military uniforms (especially in World War I-era maps) or wearing national costumes such as the traditional fez headgear for Turkey in the two maps.
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