The Dymaxion map or Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of an icosahedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. The projection depicts the Earth's continents as a near contiguous land mass. The arrangement  interrupts the map in order to preserve shapes and sizes.

 

The map was created by Buckminster Fuller. The March 1st, 1943 edition of Life magazine included a photographic essay titled "Life Presents R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World". The article included several examples of its use together with a pull-out section that could be assembled as a "three-dimensional approximation of a globe or laid out as a flat map, with which the world may be fitted together and rearranged to illuminate special aspects of its geography." Dymaxion was applied by Fuller to several of his inventions.