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Political Geography Now
PolGeoNow Control Maps is a project of Political Geography Now (www.polgeonow.com), a well-regarded educational website covering news and topics in world political geography, including territorial disputes, membership in intergovernmental organizations, and changes to world borders, flags, and country names. Notably, the centerpiece of most PolGeoNow articles is an original, professionally-designed illustrative map.
Since the beginning, PolGeoNow has been covering changes not only to official borders, but also to the unofficial boundaries formed by divided territorial control within conflict zones. And now, we’re giving this coverage – by far our most research-intensive and professionally sought-after work – a new web portal all its own, to provide a central repository for our territorial control maps and conflict tracking work.
Outstanding Maps
PolGeoNow is widely praised for its top-quality, regularly updated original maps, which use data compiled from a range of news media and academic sources. They have been featured repeatedly in the University of Texas’s Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, and have appeared directly in numerous academic papers and textbooks, as well as materials from:
- The World Bank
- The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR)
- International Crisis Group
- The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)
- The US Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Al Jazeera
- Bloomberg Television
- The Conversation
- The US Naval Institute
- Government offices in Germany, Belgium, the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, and Denmark
Additionally, maps closely based on ours have appeared in reporting by:
- BBC News
- The Economist
- The Wall Street Journal
- Al Jazeera
- The Guardian
- Stratfor
- Bloomberg Terminal
- The National Post
- Diplomatie magazine
We have also worked with other well-known organizations on map projects that aren’t available to the public, and our content is used internally by various government ministries, as well as in classrooms and law offices.
Quality Coverage
The articles accompanying PolGeoNow’s control maps provide detailed tracking of conflicts, presented as timelines of events and concise situation summaries, illustrated through successive updated editions of each map. Though the central focus is on changes to territorial control and administrative status, other key military and political events are also included for context.
We strive hard to stay strictly politically neutral, reporting only what is, and never taking a position on what should be. In a world with plenty of other sources for political analysis and policy recommendations, PolGeoNow’s content is designed not to favor or condemn any country, group, political party, or ideology – but neither do we avoid the facts, even when some parties may find them inconvenient.
Trusted Source
PolGeoNow is widely recognized for its uniquely extensive coverage of geopolitical changes and detailed tracking of territorial control in conflict zones. The site receives tens of thousands of visits every month from readers including university professors, magazine editors, diplomatic staff, government officials, and professional analysts. In addition to the many publications using our maps (see above), PolGeoNow has also been featured in the Taipei Times and linked to by sites including:
Our reports have also been cited as sources in various academic reports and publications.
Funded by Readers Like You
We are a small operation that relies on subscribers to fund the work that goes into our maps and reports. If you would like to support our continued production of quality conflict reporting, we encourage you to sign up for our professional control map subscription. Even the lowest-level subscription grants you full access our entire catalogue of territorial control maps, including both new publications and our archives going back to 2012. For group subscriptions or permission to use our maps in your own publications, custom subscriptions can also be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
Who We Are
The founder, editor, and lead cartographer of PolGeoNow is Evan Centanni. At present, most of PolGeoNow’s reports are produced by Evan and conflict researcher Djordje Djukic, with others joining for occasional contributions or collaborations.
In relation to his work with PolGeoNow, Evan was the 2022 recipient of the Richard Morrill Public Outreach Award from the Political Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).