Propaganda maps are maps designed to be particularly persuasive and try to mobilize viewers to a certain purpose or perception/opinion of some feature, person, or place. Often times these propaganda maps can be used to magnify or instigate certain feelings or beliefs, for example maps that perpetuated fear and threat in times of global conflict. Propaganda maps are in this way an example of how people shape maps and their content based on subjectivity, and how those maps in return shape how people interact and conceptualize the world. The above map is a propaganda map of Eastern Europe. It's propaganda because it depicts the Prussian and Austro-Hungarian empire as two octopuses spreading their tentacles across Europe, intended to create the idea and perception that this empire is feeding off or eating or devouring Europe.
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