Terrella: World Globe & Atlas

A globe you can put in your pocket — lacquered, hand-coloured and alive. Spin it, zoom in, tap any country to read about it. Drag the timeline and watch borders redraw themselves across the centuries. Terrella is an interactive globe, not a satellite photo: classical cartography instead of an indifferent lens. Every map lives on your device — a connection is needed only to read the article about the place you tapped. WHO IT IS FOR For people who love maps. For the curious, who have wondered what stood on this spot a thousand years ago, or which sea washes the country they have just been reading about. For teachers and parents who want a world globe that fits in a bag. For travellers who like knowing more about the places they have been. SIX VIEWS • Political — countries of the world, regions, cities • Topographic — mountains, plains, plateaus • Hydrographic — rivers, lakes and seas • Combined — the political, topographic and hydrographic views laid over one another • Historical — the borders of states from 6000 BCE to the present day • Solar system — real orbits, the planets and their moons, with surfaces you can descend to HISTORY, ALIVE A historical world map you can travel through: drag the year and the map answers. Empires appear, flourish and vanish; civilisations come and go; cities rise and go dark when they are abandoned. Every state opens at a touch and tells you what is known about it. The borders come from scholarly reconstructions, not from guesswork. EXPLORE Countries, regions, cities, rivers, seas, mountains, historical states, planets and moons — all of them open an information card. When there is no article in your language, automatic translation from another one can be switched on. TEST WHAT YOU KNOW A geography and history quiz built from the same data the globe draws: capitals of the world, borders, flags, what a strait separates, which state arose first. Some questions are generated, others were written by hand. The options are new every time, so the only thing you can memorise is the fact itself. WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM Natural Earth, Wikipedia, Wikidata and the Cliopatria historical atlas; NASA imagery for the satellite view. Every view is free, and so are search, the cards and the quiz. Terrella Pro adds depth: it lifts the zoom limit, unlocks the whole timeline back to 6000 BCE, lets you descend to the surfaces of planets and moons, and includes the advanced quiz level.