WorldMusic

World music map

Find the regions where music genres were born by clicking pins on a world map. The base map is a plain equirectangular projection (longitude and latitude laid out on a rectangular grid); each pin marks the rough centre of a region that has at least one genre in the catalogue.

World map of music genresAn equirectangular world map. Each country is filled in a muted grey; a black pin sits at the centre of every region that has registered music genres. Click a pin to see the list of genres for that region.Central Asia (6 genres)Central AsiaCentral Africa (6 genres)Central AfricaEast Africa (7 genres)East AfricaOceania (14 genres)OceaniaSouthern Africa (14 genres)Southern AfricaNorth Africa (14 genres)North AfricaWest Africa (15 genres)West AfricaMiddle East (16 genres)Middle EastNorthern Europe (16 genres)Northern EuropeCaribbean (27 genres)CaribbeanSouth America (29 genres)South AmericaEastern Europe (32 genres)Eastern EuropeSouth Asia (39 genres)South AsiaSoutheast Asia (40 genres)Southeast AsiaSouthern Europe (41 genres)Southern EuropeEast Asia (89 genres)East AsiaWestern Europe (109 genres)Western EuropeNorth America (127 genres)North America

Click a region pin to see the genres that originated there.

The map shows 18 regions and the outlines of 181 countries. Regions without registered coordinates are omitted.

Regions