War Atlas
Shares rank 14 of 26 interactive maps by recommenders
People recommend it for showing the relative sizes of political entities and conflicts through history in an engaging way. Critics report browser crashes, inaccurate borders, and missing wars.
People recommend it for showing the relative sizes of political entities and conflicts through history in an engaging way. Critics report browser crashes, inaccurate borders, and missing wars.
20 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 11
- approval share
- 45%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fascinating, impressive visual resource
“Amazing! I just wish there was a way to eliminate the text boxes.”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” “the explosion of dots from the civil war is really something!”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” “This is a fascinating resource.”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” Shows history and relative political sizes
“It does a really good job of showing the relative sizes of political entities throughout history”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” “I just did a really fast refresher on the history of (conflict in) Europe by scrolling through!”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Crashes browsers, especially Firefox
“reliably crashes my firefox on linux while consuming 55GB of memory”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” “my firefox on linux crashes immediately as well”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” “I was so confused on why my computer froze.”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” - Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history”
- Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history”
- Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history”
Inaccurate borders and information
“there are many inaccuracies particularly around borders”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” “Makes me question the validity of the information on this site”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” “aren't close to anything in either source”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” Missing some important wars
“There are some very important wars missing. For example, I see nothing about Spain's Civil War (1936-1939)”
Comment from 11 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history” “since it's not part of any named war, you could easily miss it”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history”
Other interactive maps people recommend
The four most recommended other interactive maps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| isometric.nyc | 52 | 8 | 87% | 3 | — | — |
| Map of Metal | 34 | 4 | 89% | 2 | — | — |
| CheapFoodMap | 29 | 8 | 78% | 1 | — | — |
| Isopolis | 27 | 7 | 79% | 1 | — | — |
| War AtlasThis page | 9 | 11 | 45% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
18 of the 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“aren't close to anything in either source”
“Same for me (FF 152, Fedora Linux).”
“Acurate display of humanity and what it does when things run out.”
“There are some very important wars missing. For example, I see nothing about Spain's Civil War (1936-1939)”
“It does a really good job of showing the relative sizes of political entities throughout history”
“I was so confused on why my computer froze.”
“the explosion of dots from the civil war is really something!”
“This is a fascinating resource.”
“I just did a really fast refresher on the history of (conflict in) Europe by scrolling through!”
“Amazing! I just wish there was a way to eliminate the text boxes.”
“Crashes my Firefox on Android too”
“Makes me question the validity of the information on this site”
“since it's not part of any named war, you could easily miss it”
“This page crashed my browser too.”
“my firefox on linux crashes immediately as well”
“there are many inaccuracies particularly around borders”
“reliably crashes my firefox on linux while consuming 55GB of memory”
“dark-grey-on-black-with-other-dark-colors is a terrible color scheme”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.