The map was created by Stephan Hormes. With so many different meanings and translations for place names, Mr Hormes says he did not intend the map to be a scientific scholarship. Instead he chose ...

They've created an Atlas Of True Names that deconstructs all the ordinary ... Hormes and Peust caution that readers should accept their map "just as an invitation to the world as a strange ...

An unusual take on the world, The Atlas of True Names shows how global places came ... as they are,' says Sean Quigley of Outstanding Map Distributors. 'It is already causing a degree of heated ...

Plotting this data on maps throws up some interesting continental trends, too. For example, although Spanish names dominate in South America because of the continent’s colonial history ...