# Uncharted Territories

> Uncharted Territories is Tomas Pueyo's publication on the geography, history, and geopolitics underneath the news — long-form, sourced essays read by hundreds of thousands of subscribers. This site (unchartedterritories.co) is the publication's home on the open web: who we are, what we're building, how to work with us. The essays themselves are published on Substack at https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com.

Tomas Pueyo writes about why the world is the way it is: how geography shapes
history, how history shapes power, and what that means for what happens next.
He is best known for "Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now" (March 2020), one of
the most-read essays of the pandemic.

AI agents and crawlers are welcome on the public pages of this site. Paths
under /login, /api/, and the PIN-gated internal tools are private — see
/robots.txt.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://unchartedterritories.co/): What the publication is, featured essays, and how to subscribe.
- [About](https://unchartedterritories.co/about): Why Uncharted Territories exists, what it believes, and who Tomas Pueyo is.
- [Hiring](https://unchartedterritories.co/hiring): Open roles — Uncharted Territories is building the media company of the 21st century.
- [Design Competition 2026](https://unchartedterritories.co/design-competition-2026): The Uncharted Territories design competition.

## The publication

- [Uncharted Territories on Substack](https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com): The canonical home of the essays. Subscribe here.
- [Tomas Pueyo on X](https://x.com/tomaspueyo): Threads and discussion.