Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajja fashions a footwear oriented world map based on shoes endemic to the region.  South America, all about the futbol…

Story and Image via StrangeMaps

“Russia, home of the galosh is made up of two brobdingnagian furry boots (one European and one Siberian, one imagines). Canada and Greenland are similarly furry and boot-like. Canada’s northern archipelago is represented by a craquelure of icy patches that together form the shape of a low boot.

South America, passionate about futbol, is decked out as a sports shoe decorated, for good measure, with a football. Mexico and India also seem shaped like locally worn footwear. Nice touch: the Baja California peninsula doubles as an elongated heel, while India’s shoetip is decorated with a pompon – i.e. Sri Lanka. The US is, of course, a cowboy boot. Alaska is cleverly represented as the nose of Canada’s left shoe, but in the America’s cowboy motif.”