Pangea With Modern Countries

Every country is connected, which makes the idea of conflict a lot more difficult to comprehend. Since pietrobon is more focused on politics than geological accuracy, the scales on the map aren’t perfect. Pangea mapped with today’s countries.

It assembled from the earlier continental units of gondwana, euramerica and siberia during the carboniferous approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart about 200 million years ago, at the end of the triassic and beginning of the jurassic. Digital artist massimo pietrobon has created “pangaea politica”, which takes a look at the world as it once was before all the tectonic plates shifted, as the supercontinent pangaea, but with the country borders of modern age. It showcases how the modern countries would’ve been arranged on the earth if pangea didn’t separate.

It is named the “pangea politico” because it shows the political borders of today’s countries.

The sequence of maps on this page shows how a large supercontinent known as pangaea was fragmented into several pieces, each being part of a mobile plate of the lithosphere. This is what supercontinent pangea looks like mapped with modern borders. Since pietrobon is more focused on politics than geological accuracy, the scales on the map aren’t perfect. The supercontinent of pangea formed some 270 million years ago, during the early permian period, and then began to break up 70 million years later, eventually yielding the continents we inhabit today.