The show also uses satellite imagery from Google Earth and the first use was in the episode named: "Nigeria, rich state poor country."
The Laboratoire d'études politiques et d'analyses cartographiques (LEPAC) produces about forty episodes a year for the channel Arte.
6 issues remain unclassifiable: introspective (ex: "La Methode le Dessous des Cartes") or dreamers (ex: "A journey with Corto Maltese, Turkey to Samarkand").
For information and the geographical most commonly accepted: Anecdote: The issue of 29 March 2000, for the week of April 1, is a parody of the show itself.
The producing team of the show made what could be the episode of 1 April 3000 by offering a retrospective view of the past thousand years.