Where I've Been · Zesen Huang

—Countries and territories

—First-level regions

—Second-level regions

—Days with a location

—Photos

—Videos

Items with a location, by year

Click a bar to show that year on both maps. Click it again to show all years.

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Map by administrative region

Brighter means more items. Drag to pan, and scroll or pinch to zoom. Dots mark places with no boundary map. Hover over a dashed outline to see who claims it.

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Country border
First-level boundary
Second-level boundary
Disputed area

Map by fixed block

The same items counted in equal-degree blocks, so places can be compared without regard to borders. Zoom in to see small blocks clearly.

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Country border
First-level boundary
Disputed area

How concentrated my photos are

All years. Area adds up the blocks that hold at least one item, using each block's real size at its latitude.

Block size	Blocks with items	Area, km²	Blocks holding half of all items	Blocks holding 90%	Share in the top block	Blocks with one item

Blocks

Follows the block size chosen on the map. All years, most items first. The place is the most common region in the block.

Block	Place	Items	Days	Area, km²

Second-level regions

Such as counties in the US and prefectures in China. All years, most items first. First and last are year and month.

Region	Items	Days	First	Last

First-level regions

Such as states and provinces.

Region	Items	Days	First	Last

Countries and territories

Names as recorded by Photos.

Country	Items	Days	First	Last

The globe behind this page is a drawing. Its lights are the 0.5° blocks from the map above. Its magnetic field, aurora and solar wind are a sketch, not a simulation, and no line on it is a route.

What counts as a second-level region follows each boundary map, so sizes vary. Italy and Greece are mapped at a broader level than provinces, and Taiwan at a finer level. Hong Kong, Macao and Vatican City have no boundary map, so they use the place names in Photos. Points just outside a coastline go to the nearest region, and points near a border can land in the neighboring one.

Country, first-level and second-level lines for countries with a boundary map all come from one simplified shape set, so they meet exactly. Canada, Australia and a few other countries with very intricate coasts are simplified more. Boundary lines hide briefly while you pan or zoom. Lines elsewhere come from Natural Earth and can sit slightly apart where the two sources meet.

Dashed outlines follow Natural Earth's list of disputed areas, including its choices about what to list, such as Taiwan, Israel and Belize. Solid lines can run underneath a dashed outline. None of this is a statement on who controls or should control any territory.

Only totals per region and block are stored here. Exact coordinates, street addresses and filenames are left out. — Fujifilm photos took their location from the nearest iPhone item in time, so those are estimates.

Boundaries come from geoBoundaries and its open-data sources, under licenses including CC BY, CC BY-SA and ODbL. Country borders, land and disputed areas come from Natural Earth.