Artist and designer Kentaro Nagai has crafted images of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals by re-arranging the shapes of countries and continents on the world map. The idea behind the campaign is to craft a stronger and more united global community that counts for more than just the sum of its parts.

In that spirit, check out Nagai’s 12 Animals Made from the World Map, my favorite of which is the horse at right. Also don’t miss the other animal made from map parts after the jump, the animal under whose sign both Listicles and I were born.

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(via Design You Trust)