AN OPEN LEARNING ATLAS

EVERY CITY.
ONE GLOBE.

Discover the world's great cities — their history, scale, and stories — through an interactive atlas that's free for everyone, forever.

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001 — MISSION

Geography shouldn't be gated behind a paywall.

We built Globe.sys to make learning about the world's great cities as frictionless as opening a tab. No signup walls. No ads. No tracking. Just a living atlas you can explore, remix, and share.

  • NO SIGNUP
  • NO ADS
  • OPEN SOURCE
  • OFFLINE READY
002 — EXPLORE
CITY 01 / 04
TOKYO
JAPAN — 35.68°N 139.69°E

The most populous metropolitan area on Earth. A hyper-dense network of 37 million people woven together by one of the world's most efficient rail systems.

POPULATION37.4M
FOUNDED1457
AREA2,194 km²
TIMEZONEUTC+9
CITY 02 / 04
CAIRO
EGYPT — 30.04°N 31.24°E

Gateway to the ancient Pyramids of Giza and anchor of the Arab world. Over a millennium old, Cairo sits where the Nile delta meets the desert.

POPULATION21.3M
FOUNDED969 AD
AREA3,085 km²
TIMEZONEUTC+2
CITY 03 / 04
RIO DE JANEIRO
BRAZIL — 22.91°S 43.17°W

Christ the Redeemer watching over Copacabana. A port city carved between mountains, beach, and jungle — and the cultural heartbeat of Brazil.

POPULATION13.6M
FOUNDED1565
AREA1,200 km²
TIMEZONEUTC−3
CITY 04 / 04
ISTANBUL
TURKEY — 41.01°N 28.98°E

The only city on two continents. Straddling the Bosphorus, Istanbul has been the capital of three empires over 2,600 years of continuous habitation.

POPULATION16.0M
FOUNDED660 BC
AREA5,461 km²
TIMEZONEUTC+3

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INTERACTIVE ATLAS

Click any city marker to open a deep-dive with population, history, timezone, and the stories that shaped it.

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REAL COORDINATES

Every city is positioned by its true latitude and longitude on a WGS84-accurate globe — learn geography by exploring.

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WORKS OFFLINE

Once loaded, the whole atlas is yours. Use it on the subway, on a plane, in a classroom without Wi-Fi.

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100% OPEN SOURCE

Fork it. Translate it. Add your hometown. The source is on GitHub under a permissive MIT license.

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25+ cities across six continents, one interactive globe, zero signup.

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