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 Africa (7 genres)Central AfricaCentral Asia (9 genres)Central AsiaEast Africa (11 genres)East AfricaNorthern Europe (19 genres)Northern EuropeNorth Africa (20 genres)North AfricaWest Africa (21 genres)West AfricaSouthern Africa (21 genres)Southern AfricaOceania (24 genres)OceaniaMiddle East (24 genres)Middle EastCaribbean (27 genres)CaribbeanEastern Europe (40 genres)Eastern EuropeSouth America (44 genres)South AmericaSoutheast Asia (45 genres)Southeast AsiaSouth Asia (51 genres)South AsiaSouthern Europe (55 genres)Southern EuropeEast Asia (104 genres)East AsiaWestern Europe (109 genres)Western EuropeNorth America (129 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