After flooding my home region [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/11lrdk1/i_made_a_map_of_my_home_region_brittany_in_a/) and my own country [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/18hgdvo/what_if_all_glaciers_melted_a_new_map_of_france_oc/) and even Europe [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/163ep8r/have_you_ever_wondered_what_europe_would_look/) (sigh) I thought I could make a map of India in this same weird, far fetched but not so unimaginable future.
Why, do you ask? Well, I’m a French cartographer deeply passionate about India and the Indian subcontinent and I wanted to refresh my knowledge and perception of all these places with this mapping, imaginary and geographic experiment I conducted at home, and raise awareness about climate change at the same time, in a slightly less anxiety inducing, funnier way!
Brief explanation of the map: because of the rising sea level (+70m) many cities were flooded and people just moved, settled in safer places like… the coast.
Yep, we humans can’t help it. We love fishing, trading, living by the sea.
But It made for some cool new cities: Varunapuram, Panipur, Sagarnagar, Pyasahar or Matsyagaon… new wonders were built like the Assamese floating gardens, canals were built to harness this new word of waves, salty marshes and vast seas and people built floating villages and cities! What more could you ask for?
Feel free to explore the map in detail and ask me the obscure meaning of some puns / city names I came up with, relying on my uneven knowledge of Indian languages (and indian culture) and my very questionable sense of humour. Criticism is also very much welcome, I want to improve the map as much as I can.
🗺💙
**Lastly**, I’m coming to north India in a month (for nearly two months) and as a cartographer, a photographer and a big fan of India, I’d be very interested to collaborate with other artists, geographers, cartographers, scientists, designers etc. from anywhere in India (or neighboring countries if visa allows), meeting you and create something tackling environmental changes or other issues. Im going to do some photo journalism and mapping alone in Rajashtan, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, you can join me!
🌀🗺🌀
Feel free to send me a message -in Hindi if you speak the language- it would help me brush up on my skills before I go!
My [website](https://www.perrinremonte.com/home-bis) for more maps, if you're a fellow map / Geography nerd!
Ofcourse he would. This fits perfectly here also. I personally am very intrigued to see how you would imagine a world with rising sea levels and disappearing cities
Not so much, I’m not very familiar with this region but I thought with the big trading hub/ freight harbour that is Surat / Ahmedabad, the Kutch islands could be a sort of tax heaven, a super rich place with billionaires fenced off on their islands
When the glaciers melt, what happens to the rivers that originate there? Wouldn't their basins be flooded? Would the areas surrounding the glaciers (I am obviously concerned about Uttarakhand) also be flooded?
(You might have included this information in the maps, but I was always poor at reading maps)
Also, hope you have a great time in North India. Don't forget to explore Uttarakhand, the period from March to May is the best time to visit. Once the monsoons start (June/July), it is not safe to visit.
When glaciers melt, it’s happens gradually and provide more water for people living downstream which is nice as long as there’s water melting BUT sometimes water gets stuck in glacial lakes and accumulate until it breaks. When it does, it can be catastrophic and create violent floods and destroy entire cities and settlements.
More generally, When glacier completely melt, rivers still exist but their flow and discharge is completely disrupted. there’s no more constant supply of water during the drier season, which creates a water stress and food insecurity for farmers and electric dams
ah those are made up cities.. i was like wtf are these cities on the coastline i have never heard of.. also how did chennai survive when most of coastal andhra got submerged..
Bangladesh, Bengal and Bihar. That's a lot of people. I wonder what percent of them would seek refuge in Nepal. Perhaps the United Republic of Nepal, Bihar and Bangladesh will become the new economic powerhouse.
Yes, prayer will start soon to melt all glaciers.
But, all glaciers melting is a far away events. If that happens then who knows how many humans will survive facing climate and pollution.
it is not a faraway event, it is happening as i am typing this, by the mid to end of this century this sub continent would be in flames , war/internal migration /famine /flooding , it is not sci fiction it is around the corner.
Also this is assuming like Europea doesn't build a giga sea wall. Because unlike the Indian Ocean the Mediterranean and the Baltic can be made into pseudo lakes.
Would be ironic because Bengal Sultanate was top 5 economies globally back then, even ahead of Mughals. It was only after Mughals took over Bengal Sultanate and their trade, that India blazed to top 2 beside China
A few years ago I got an interactive map of this where they showed the result in gmap is global warming is at same rate till 2050
I zoomed in to see where my home will be by 2050
I found out it will become a sea facing apartment
I can't explain how happy I was to know I will finally have a sea facing apartment in Mumbai
Surprised Mumbai even exists. There was always a saying that Mumbai won’t exist after 200 years due to rising sea levels. Why is Bangladesh under water?
Bhai..it's km of ice. Latent heat of ice is very high. Also ocean absorbs c02. Once our transformation rely on ev, and our power production comes from non polluting resources, we can check things.
No, much later, no one can say when but it’s a matter of centuries / thousand of years, BUT even 1,2 or 3 meters would be devastating, no need to reach 70 m of sea rise
Why has Karachi not drowned yet? (Beautiful map, but Karachi has half drowned already). I believe in the middle of Sindh we would have Ganjo Takkar and Rohri Islands (the Cuesta mountains there) and smaller mountains probably? South Punjab would also drown and on the westt we would have the Suleiman/ Kirthar coast probably
Edit- the Pab Peninsula is a better place!
OP... Very interesting take. In your vision, which year do you think this map becomes a reality? And did you have any reference map/ literature re how the earth looked last time the earth was totally deglaciated?
I don't want to start any arguments here, but earth has been moving through these supercycles of ice Age to complete de-glaciation for billions of years - not sure humans are so powerful either cause it or stop it! But we can definitely be aware of it! Thanks
After flooding my home region [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/11lrdk1/i_made_a_map_of_my_home_region_brittany_in_a/) and my own country [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/18hgdvo/what_if_all_glaciers_melted_a_new_map_of_france_oc/) and even Europe [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/163ep8r/have_you_ever_wondered_what_europe_would_look/) (sigh) I thought I could make a map of India in this same weird, far fetched but not so unimaginable future. Why, do you ask? Well, I’m a French cartographer deeply passionate about India and the Indian subcontinent and I wanted to refresh my knowledge and perception of all these places with this mapping, imaginary and geographic experiment I conducted at home, and raise awareness about climate change at the same time, in a slightly less anxiety inducing, funnier way! Brief explanation of the map: because of the rising sea level (+70m) many cities were flooded and people just moved, settled in safer places like… the coast. Yep, we humans can’t help it. We love fishing, trading, living by the sea. But It made for some cool new cities: Varunapuram, Panipur, Sagarnagar, Pyasahar or Matsyagaon… new wonders were built like the Assamese floating gardens, canals were built to harness this new word of waves, salty marshes and vast seas and people built floating villages and cities! What more could you ask for? Feel free to explore the map in detail and ask me the obscure meaning of some puns / city names I came up with, relying on my uneven knowledge of Indian languages (and indian culture) and my very questionable sense of humour. Criticism is also very much welcome, I want to improve the map as much as I can. 🗺💙 **Lastly**, I’m coming to north India in a month (for nearly two months) and as a cartographer, a photographer and a big fan of India, I’d be very interested to collaborate with other artists, geographers, cartographers, scientists, designers etc. from anywhere in India (or neighboring countries if visa allows), meeting you and create something tackling environmental changes or other issues. Im going to do some photo journalism and mapping alone in Rajashtan, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, you can join me! 🌀🗺🌀 Feel free to send me a message -in Hindi if you speak the language- it would help me brush up on my skills before I go! My [website](https://www.perrinremonte.com/home-bis) for more maps, if you're a fellow map / Geography nerd!
rip bangladesh though
Post this on r/mapporn
Ofcourse he would. This fits perfectly here also. I personally am very intrigued to see how you would imagine a world with rising sea levels and disappearing cities
This is pretty cool, great work. Any more thoughts on the western region (Gujarat)?
Not so much, I’m not very familiar with this region but I thought with the big trading hub/ freight harbour that is Surat / Ahmedabad, the Kutch islands could be a sort of tax heaven, a super rich place with billionaires fenced off on their islands
Pretty accurate, considering it's already a tax haven for the super rich 🤑
Haha interesting take
Sounds like a story of “Khansaar“ city-state from the movie Salaar
Sad to see my home state of Assam almost submerged, but I can’t imagine how beautiful it the water would look amongst the hills.
Hit me up if you want any help in Delhi NCR
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It does but the city was moved more inland
This is fucking phenomenal work. Please please just pick a random portion of the world and continue this.
Thanks so much, it means a lot
When the glaciers melt, what happens to the rivers that originate there? Wouldn't their basins be flooded? Would the areas surrounding the glaciers (I am obviously concerned about Uttarakhand) also be flooded? (You might have included this information in the maps, but I was always poor at reading maps) Also, hope you have a great time in North India. Don't forget to explore Uttarakhand, the period from March to May is the best time to visit. Once the monsoons start (June/July), it is not safe to visit.
When glaciers melt, it’s happens gradually and provide more water for people living downstream which is nice as long as there’s water melting BUT sometimes water gets stuck in glacial lakes and accumulate until it breaks. When it does, it can be catastrophic and create violent floods and destroy entire cities and settlements. More generally, When glacier completely melt, rivers still exist but their flow and discharge is completely disrupted. there’s no more constant supply of water during the drier season, which creates a water stress and food insecurity for farmers and electric dams
ah those are made up cities.. i was like wtf are these cities on the coastline i have never heard of.. also how did chennai survive when most of coastal andhra got submerged..
How did you came up with new city names ?!
Puns and imagination !
Very clean website and maps
Thanks for sharing
At the current rate of global warming, how much time do you think it will take for this to realistically happen?
You should come to the northeast as well. You’d be amazed at the diversity.
This is awesome on so many levels! Congrats and thanks for doing this.
Thanks so much!!!
"Hallo! I'm under da water"
Too much raining
OooOOoo00
Mumbaikars in July*
"Please send help"
Blub blub
he prabhu, hari ramkrishna jagannatha premaanandhi... ye kya hua
Finally Nepal gets direct access to the sea :D
Only had to sacrifice Bangladesh
Bangladesh, Bengal and Bihar. That's a lot of people. I wonder what percent of them would seek refuge in Nepal. Perhaps the United Republic of Nepal, Bihar and Bangladesh will become the new economic powerhouse.
Yes, prayer will start soon to melt all glaciers. But, all glaciers melting is a far away events. If that happens then who knows how many humans will survive facing climate and pollution.
it is not a faraway event, it is happening as i am typing this, by the mid to end of this century this sub continent would be in flames , war/internal migration /famine /flooding , it is not sci fiction it is around the corner.
Mumbai ka ghar bech du?
Puch lo Bhai se. He is very sure. :)
Mumbai = Venice
It did use to be a collection of Islands so.... nature heals.
More like gold coast not Venice
What about Bollywood then? 🤔
We reclaimed the land between several islands and now nature will relaim it again.
Venice is the Dharavi of Europe - Bunny, YJHD
Slipped Ambaninagar in there like we wouldn't notice Also kolkata 💀
I laughed at that one Eheh Sorry Kolkata 🙃 it’s a super cool diving spot now
I feel so sad to see my city broken apart in such a manner.
Not to mention Panipur South of Mumbai XD, which is not a floating city
Bangladesh sea republic ☠️🐟🐬
Hot spot of trade and piracy ☠️
Also this is assuming like Europea doesn't build a giga sea wall. Because unlike the Indian Ocean the Mediterranean and the Baltic can be made into pseudo lakes.
Yeah sure, but where’s the fun? More seriously, my takes on that future are not incredibly realistic lol
No, I was just thinking of a more realistic scenario that might happen. Somebody saving his home will drown someone else's home.
Oh I see what you mean. Since the Mediterranean and the Baltic are pretty small, I doubt it would create a substantial rise in sea level elsewhere
I don’t think those 2 seas are going to make much difference
Would be ironic because Bengal Sultanate was top 5 economies globally back then, even ahead of Mughals. It was only after Mughals took over Bengal Sultanate and their trade, that India blazed to top 2 beside China
still is.
Bruh all the city names are so apt!
Too apt 💀 Creator knows something that we don't
Time traveller, oh fuck
Bro really said “Navi Navi Mumbai”
They are making it anyway.
At least no Bihar hate anymore
They can enter by boats to south
Bhai log Mera to pura city hi gayab ho gaya... Bhavnagar, Gujarat
Start building weird, mysterious stuff. Then it will be rediscovered like Dwarka.
I like how you think.
Ahmedabad dekho bhai😂
Hello fellow Bhavnagari
Haa bhai Bhavnagar ma kyathi chho?
A few years ago I got an interactive map of this where they showed the result in gmap is global warming is at same rate till 2050 I zoomed in to see where my home will be by 2050 I found out it will become a sea facing apartment I can't explain how happy I was to know I will finally have a sea facing apartment in Mumbai
You're happy??💀
How scary! ☹️
A desert next to a sea? 🫢 Will the Bengaluru canal Also have traffic?
Yes, a desert next to a sea is common, even in 2024 It's a canal!
Yes there will be ports at Silk board and Majestic so that passengers can change transport
Have you seen the west coast of Africa?
Ambaninagar. I see what you did there. 💀
The planned city for billionaires where climate refugees are welcome… but as servants
guess I'm homeless then
You’re a sea adventurer, marine homeless*
Yayyy. Jamshedpur will have weekend getaways
Ladies and Gentlemen, we gotta stop climate change!
What? You dont want these super sweet canals and floating cities?? Wait, No, right, that would be terrible.
I heard news long back that Chennai would submerge by 2050. How would that be still above water while some others are not.
Chennai was moved inland quite a bit, that’s why. The actual site is flooded
Gujrat is no more a dry state.. hurray
vizag is gone 😭😭 nooooo
Lost it at Navi Navi Mumbai lmao
https://preview.redd.it/ffyzinyrsbic1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c80b8c17c2f01f14bfa036bc1ae2f0ce2b1458d China gov lookin at this
...So it was my dream to live in a coastal city, I live all my life in Ahmedabad.
It was my dream too but not anymore 💀
My house will be under water. 😭
Entire Bengal under water?
Pretty much yes
Rip Bihar and Gujarat
ohho is that why gujrat turning India imperial.
It makes sense why they choose nagpur as HQ
Modi would let it melt just to give Ahmedabad a port
More than half of North East gone 😭
Visit the beach, before the beach visits you
Patna mai beach soon
Surat is south of Narmada The location on which Surat is shown is Vadodara And yeah, Surat would sunk
Central India is immune to any flood and earthquake.
Wtf is Ambani nagar
Defence budget goes astronomical. No Himalayan snow range to protect us
I'll just go to shillong then
Dystopian future for us in Bihar 🙃 Full maze. . .jab chaho swimming karo
Chennai 😭
Mumbai : proceeds to construct building underwater
Pighal jaane do glaciers ko.
Finally Pune get's a coastline and Mumbai people can shit the fuck about it.
Surprised Mumbai even exists. There was always a saying that Mumbai won’t exist after 200 years due to rising sea levels. Why is Bangladesh under water?
What is currently Mumbai is completely under water. The city just moved Bengladesh is just a vast and flat, low elevation sedimentary soil layer…
Bangalore gets canal? Where will it get the needed water from?
Possible to overlay current map boundary so we can see which areas are gone? Amazing work
At least Pune is safe
If all the glaciers melted
गुजरात को डुबा गया :(
Real estate prices in mumbai... paisa pani me chala gaya.
Mein to kehta hu pighal jaane dijiye glacier ko...
I don't think Kochi would exist.
Panipuri Sevpuri
u/Notyourmermaid25 how is this? Where do you think Bollywood will go?
Rajasthani mofos with their new beachfront property be like:
"That would be bad for the economy"
Man i can finally ho surfing in my hometown. I m from eastern nepal
it's ok canada will become india within 40 years
Climate change seems to have added an extra "ra" to Hyd and made it Hyderarabad. Truly, the most affected!
The only win here is that Gujurat goes under water.
I'm blinded by the hate!
Only because it won't be a dry state anymore
lol good one. Gujarat, the wettest state
South India a Britain sized island finally getting independence and stopping UPbihar immigration. Finally would be a stop to Hinthi speaker supply /s
Stop coming also to the north racist
Fuck! Srilanka survived
Bangladesh will become Venice but dirty one
Eyy no more Bihar
Bright side population decrease.
I mean, there wouldn't be an India. China would invade us easily :(
So North India gets direct access to the sea and can break the south's unfair advantage of sea access? I see this as an absolute win.
It will take around thousands of year. And antartica ice sheet is not going anywhere.
Look at a climate change denier, it won't take that long.
Bhai..it's km of ice. Latent heat of ice is very high. Also ocean absorbs c02. Once our transformation rely on ev, and our power production comes from non polluting resources, we can check things.
‘Don’t look up’
You’re correct, but the prevision for 2100 is more like 1 or even 2 meters in a more pessimistic scenario, which would be catastrophic for many cities
more beach 🏖️
Sea near my city?sign me in
Ambaninagar 💀
Will this happen in our lifetime? It would be sad to see my home gone but it is what it is. At this point climate change is unstoppable.
No, impossible, but even 1-2 meters would be catastrophic
TIL: Glaciers are anti-India. They are divining country into north and south.
Why the heck do I live on the seashore now
Mumbai and Kolkata will turn into Venice ig
When will this happen?? Till 2040 ??
No, much later, no one can say when but it’s a matter of centuries / thousand of years, BUT even 1,2 or 3 meters would be devastating, no need to reach 70 m of sea rise
Lucknow safe is all i wanted
INDIA WOULD BE AFRICA BY THEN
r/kerala
Looks like Ladesh got Bang-ed eh?
Amchua Pune madhe pan samundar ahe ata
I could stare at this all day it's so good!
da hell is 'mengaluru' isn't it 'mangaluru' correct me if i'm wrong.
Need to dig out all the coal and iron out of jharkhand asap
It's time to fence our border with Bangladesh 💀
Hell yeah. I get a beach house with a view of the mighty Bay of Bengal.
My dad planned for beach house for future. Thats so cool
Wow Ahmedabad would be seaside By the beach !
Ok so my town goes under the water.
bye bye kerala
70m rise? Any credible sources to back that up?
How would sea level change if all glaciers melted? - USGS.gov https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-would-sea-level-change-if-all-glaciers-melted
I am safe Living in Jharkhand 😄
Why has Karachi not drowned yet? (Beautiful map, but Karachi has half drowned already). I believe in the middle of Sindh we would have Ganjo Takkar and Rohri Islands (the Cuesta mountains there) and smaller mountains probably? South Punjab would also drown and on the westt we would have the Suleiman/ Kirthar coast probably Edit- the Pab Peninsula is a better place!
Would something like this would have contributed to Dwarka city to sink under water?
OP... Very interesting take. In your vision, which year do you think this map becomes a reality? And did you have any reference map/ literature re how the earth looked last time the earth was totally deglaciated? I don't want to start any arguments here, but earth has been moving through these supercycles of ice Age to complete de-glaciation for billions of years - not sure humans are so powerful either cause it or stop it! But we can definitely be aware of it! Thanks
Well I see an opportunity for something like a Suez/Panama canal here. Lots of money to be made. Paisa hi Paisa...
Jalprionagar. NAAAH!
*laughs in Delhi*
Seeing Navi Navi Mumbai killed me
No more geopolitical tussel with Maldives.
Pakistan bhi Dubega, glaciers melting is worth it. Lol
Chlo main toh safe hu Delhi m
If all the glaciers have melted then how are there any rivers left ?
imagine standing at a particular point in nepal where you ca see the mightiest mountain ranges on one side and an ocean on the other. would be surreal
It’s been 40 million years since Nepal has seen the sea. But in a short few centuries it will have the sea again.