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

003 — SCALE

A world of cities, at your fingertips.

AND GROWING EVERY MONTH

Cities searchable

Continents

Years of history

Forever

004 — FEATURES

Built for curious minds,
not ad networks.

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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.

READY WHEN YOU ARE

Launch the atlas.

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

EVERY CITY.ONE GLOBE.

Geography shouldn't be gated behind a paywall.

A world of cities, at your fingertips.

Built for curious minds,not ad networks.

Launch the atlas.

EVERY CITY.
ONE GLOBE.

Built for curious minds,
not ad networks.