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r/Maps

r/Maps is an active safe-for-work Reddit community for geography with 171,457 members and about 9.6 new posts a day.

Subscribers171.5K
Posts per day9.6
Posts all time44.7K
CreatedJun 2008
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About r/Maps

In its own words:

Beautiful, interesting, and informative maps.

The community was created on Jun 16, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Among the 9 communities on our geography list it is number 2 by size.

What sets r/Maps apart

r/Maps is far more image-driven than most big subreddits: 45% of its recent posts are images, against a median of 22% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 56.0 new posts a day per million members, more than 87% of the Top 100.

Top posts on r/Maps this week

What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 9, 2026).

  1. The largest single retirement community in the U.S.: Voter Tends Editionu/The_Silent_Tortoise · Nov 4 · gallery
  2. There's a tiny piece of Kentucky that isn't connected to the rest of Kentuckyu/MehkemRiaya · Nov 3 · text post
  3. 2026 Map of the World I finished!u/HalcyonSRO · Nov 4 · image
  4. 2026 U.S. House and Senate forecast maps: Democrats favored in both, with a much closer Senate [OC]u/EnvironmentalAd2805 · Nov 2 · gallery
  5. Delaware has a circular state border centered on a courthouseu/MehkemRiaya · Nov 3 · text post
  6. Hammond Maps are beautiful. They’re some of the best-detailed maps and also pretty nostalgic for meu/CW03158 · Nov 8 · gallery
  7. Can you guess a country by its elevation profile?u/Ever-Else · Nov 4 · image
  8. Map of Travel Advisories for Canada (regional advisories not included)u/dipdipdemon1 · Nov 7 · image
  9. I mapped where 422 foods and dishes first came from – apples are from Kazakhstan, pineapples from Paraguayu/LegitimatePin3793 · Nov 4 · image
  10. [OC] The 2024–2026 House vote shift in districts where the boundaries stayed the sameu/madhav-sharma · Nov 7 · image

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Maps, from 2020 to 2022, ranked by Reddit.

  1. And the winner is... Ireland! Congrats to Ireland for being the least hated country or the country that nobody cares about. This has been a really fun thing to do throughout the past weeks, and it wa…u/TeeEm_27 · Jul 14, 2021 · 5,162 points · 318 comments · gallery
  2. Map Shows Where It's Illegal to be Gayu/marsroverservis · Apr 7, 2021 · image
  3. Got deleted on MapPorn, so thought I'd post this hereu/wadafaqbro · Oct 19, 2021 · 3,616 points · 114 comments · image
  4. Europe is greener now than 100 years agou/b3edrhn · Sep 2, 2021 · 3,367 points · 190 comments · image
  5. What is up with Kiribati naming stuff?u/Serenex123 · Jul 29, 2021 · 2,842 points · 138 comments · gallery
  6. Which countries are rooting for who on the european cup finale tonightu/furryslayer_420 · Jul 11, 2021 · 2,777 points · 135 comments · image
  7. (Round 51 - The Final) Sweden has been removed, leaving it down to a final showdown between Ireland and Finland. Both countries did well to make it this far, but there can only be one winner. Time fo…u/TeeEm_27 · Jul 13, 2021 · 2,692 points · 675 comments · gallery
  8. Funny map I found on Instagram - @geomaphyMar 27, 2021 · gallery
  9. Really makes you thinku/simonleek29 · May 17, 2021 · image
  10. Another perpective for how densely populated Bangladesh really is.u/Thessiz · Mar 13, 2021 · image

What r/Maps talks about

We read the titles of 69 recent posts (Oct 31–Nov 7), the words that come up most are “map”, “interactive”, “world”, “countries” and “europe”. Other frequent themes are house, districts, atlas, states, state and election. Recurring phrases include “interactive map”, “map websites”, “genuinely fun” and “valencia spain”. By format, 45% are images, 23% are galleries and 16% are text posts.

  • map 26
  • interactive 8
  • world 5
  • countries 4
  • europe 4
  • house 3
  • districts 3
  • atlas 3
  • states 3
  • state 3
  • election 3
  • closer 3
  • serbia 3
  • vote 2
  • political 2
  • elections 2
  • mapped 2
  • built 2

Popular post flairs: Data Map (27), Current Map (11), Other Map (7), Old Map (7), Question (6), Drawn OC Map (5).

Activity and best time to post

r/Maps gets about 9.6 new posts a day. The public archive holds 44,704 posts and 458,219 comments in total, about 10.3 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (16 posts) and the quietest was Friday (7). Posting peaks around 15:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.

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Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 31, 2026 – Nov 6, 2026
Images 45%Galleries 23%Text posts 16%Links 10%Videos 6%

Rules of r/Maps

The moderators of r/Maps list 5 rules. In short:

  1. Flair Your Posts
  2. Be Nice
  3. Absolutely no racism, homophobia, or any other similiar type of hate
  4. No screenshots or videos of maps
  5. Follow Reddit's Content Policy

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/Maps and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How many subscribers does r/Maps have?

r/Maps has 171,457 subscribers.

When was r/Maps created?

r/Maps was created on Jun 16, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 18, 2008.

Is r/Maps still active?

Yes. r/Maps gets about 9.6 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 44,704 posts and 458,219 comments. In a sample of 69 recent posts we counted 60 different authors.

What is the best time to post in r/Maps?

Based on post counts from Oct 31, 2026 to Nov 6, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 15:00 UTC, with the fewest around 00:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What kind of posts are on r/Maps?

The community describes itself as: “Beautiful, interesting, and informative maps.” Recent post titles often mention map, interactive, world, countries and europe. Most posts are images (45%).

Is r/Maps SFW?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Maps as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

What are the rules of r/Maps?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Maps accepts both text and link posts, with images and galleries enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “Flair Your Posts”; “Be Nice”; “Absolutely no racism, homophobia, or any other similiar type of hate”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

What subreddits are similar to r/Maps?

Communities with similar topics include r/geography (1.7M).

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 9, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Maps.