The oldest maps out there are roughly 4000 years old, depicting a section of the river Odet valley in modern Finistère, Brittany. It was found in a tomb, possibly to communicate to people what its inhabitant “controlled.” The fact is that all through history, humans have been trying to make records of the world around them in interesting ways.
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#1 Fun Infographic Shows When We Tend To Peak At Certain Things
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#2 Stumbled Across A Dumb Little Post
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The Great Fire of London ragged in 1666. This fantastic map overlays the effected area on modern day London. Would be cool to walk the area to feel the extent
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The classification of Germany in this map classifying the nature of most commonly used profanities across Europe is certainly correct. I would argue a whole category is missing here: family related profanities. Sure, they are often mixed with sexual insults but I thing they deserve their own category!
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#6 This Map Shows What The Word “Yankee” Means Around The World
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#7 For A While During The Northern Hemisphere’s Summer, The Sun Sets In Eastern Brazil Before It Does In Ireland. Now You Know
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#8 Just A Quick Reminder. A Little Public Service Announcement To Please My Dutch Friends
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#9 Challenge: Which Definition, Which Terminology Doesn’t Offend Anyone? I’ve Found That Someone Will Always Be Mad
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#10 Good News, Australia! The Motherland Still Likes Us!
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#11
In places like Germany, the full retirement of the huge Baby Boomer cohort will drive pension payments up significantly. The relatively small workforce will pay for that. Young workers will increasingly dislike that. Voting behaviour might shift further away from established parties as a result.
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#12 Yet Another Map That Supports My Suspicion That Poland Is Europe’s Hottest Place To Be At The Moment. Cheaper Than Germany, On The Up Economically
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#13 As A German, For A Personal Meeting 12 Means 12 But For A Professional Meeting 12 Means Be 5 Minutes Early. Any Alternative Interpretation Hurts My Little German Brain
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#14 This Map Shows The Number Of Dentists Per 10,000 Residents Across Europe
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#15 I Guess It’s Truly The Heartland Of The Us?!
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#16 Holidaymakers In The Mediterranean Should Study This Map Carefully To Impress (Annoy?) Their Friends And Family With Island Related Geography Trivia!
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#17 If You Are Being Born Today, This Is The Likelihood Of You Ending Up In Each Continent
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#18 Etymology Of Spain. This Map Shows The Origin Of Various Spanish Province Names
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#19 How Long Is Your Summer School Break?
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#20 Good To See The French Still Being Skinny
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#21 Map Shows The World In About 250 Million Years
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#22 That’s One Way Of Saying That Poland Really Saw Impressive Economic Growth In Recent Years
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#23 Technically Correct
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#24 By 2050 India Will Be One United States Bigger Than China
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#25 Wow. That Puts Market Sizes Into Perspective
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#26 Michigander Remains The Funniest Us Demonym
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#27 This Map Might Be Bananas But The Word Keeps Changing More Than I Would’ve Expected
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#28 You Are Not Nostalgic About The 90s, 80s, Or 70s. You Are Nostalgic About Your Own Youth – Whenever That Was
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#29 This Map Overlays The 49th Parallel (Essentially The Us–canada Border) On Europe
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#30 Truth
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#31 In A World Where More People Obsess About Their Work Being Inherently Meaningful, I Hope That You See Your Job Relatively Close To The Left Side Of The Chart
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#32 I Live Such A Sheltered Life That I Had Never Heard Of A Horse Chopping Sabre Before
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#33 Poland-Czechoslovakia Needed A Cooler Name. Just Sayin’…
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#34 The Great War, Wwi, Changed The Map Of Europe Significantly
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The very low birth rates across Europe lock in future population decline now. The Mediterranean countries will be pretty empty. Well, except for the summer months when everyone still comes to Italy and co for a holiday.
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#36
A Government being excited about their own ideas is normal. This chart made me laugh though. The White House’s economic impact assessment of their Big Beautiful Bill is comically out of whack with all major economic forecasters.
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#37 This Map Looks Like The Setup For Europe’s Weirdest Cop Show
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#38 Map Of The UK Shows Which Country Is The Nearest Neighbour
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#39
With Italy and Japan we have two big economies where over a quarter of the population is aged 65+. Traditional models of aged care and state guaranteed retirement funding are about to collapse. Time to figure out new models. Younger nations have time and can copy successful approaches of the old nations (and dearly hope that they come up with something smart fast).
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#40 Chinese Factories Would Get To Sell Heaps More American Flags Once The Us Take In Another State Or One State Defects
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#41 Time To Enrage Most Of Europe With A Single Map?
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#42
This map categorizes European forests according to their use. Unmanaged forests are super rare. Finland and Sweden are timber plantations. France has created Landes de Gascogne, a match box forest on the Atlantic coast. Britain got rid of their forests altogether.
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#43 Most Of Europe Is Shrinking As Is. Without Migration The Shrinkage Would Be Huuuge By 2100
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#44 Let’s See If This Map Will Come In Handy Any Time Soon
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#45
Young adults are dying at an increasing rate in the United States. France roughly mirrored the US before the introduction of Oxycontin in the mid-90s and later fentanyl. The US isn’t doing a great job looking after its own people
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By now you would’ve read how New York City voted. Have you seen the clear geographic division of votes yet? Countless cities around the world are evenly geographically divided in their political leanings.
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Just after you cross the Alps (🚗🚴🐘) into Italy, you enter the Italian Motor Valley. The funnest and fastest Italian engineering marvels are friendly neighbours here.
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#48 The China–north Korea–russia Tripoint Must Be One Of The Weirder Borders Out There
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#50 Look Who Just Made It Into The Top 20 Of The World’s Largest Economies. Welcome To The Top, Poland
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#51 Not So Forbidden After All…
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#52 Germany’s Economy Faces Many Struggles Buuuuut It Is Still Huge As This Map Reminds Us
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#54 Minor Correction: Skateboarding Seniors Are Cool As Heck And The Chart Should Point Up Again!
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#55
Wait, this is a real thing? A cave deeper than 2000m? And people are crazy enough to go all the way down? Good lord! It’s a hard no from me. Happy to support mountaineers all the way to the top but caving is a big no no for your friendly armchair cartography enthusiast
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#56 Country Lookalikes
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#57
I had never seen the US Baby Boom been visualized in this way. Rather cool visuals. The chart assumes Baby Boomers to be born between 1946 and 1964
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#58 Beer Types By Bitterness And Alcohol Levels
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#59
Excess mortality in the EU during the Covid years was 12 per cent. This means we’ve seen 12 per cent more deaths than we would’ve statistically expected. The Swedish approach wasn’t as lackadaisical as we make it out to be. Targeted protection of the elderly saw super high compliance. Sweden’s Covid approach remains highly respected
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#60 Where To Pee? European Edition
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#61 This Map Shows Europe In A Silly Scenario Where Sea Levels Decrease By 1000 Meters
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#62 The Electric Car Boom Continues To Boom
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#63 Now That European Ice Cream Season Is In Full Swing, This Map Seems Like Essential Knowledge
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#64 Roosters Without Borders
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#65 Across Most Of The World, The Us Is Now Seen Less Favorably Than Just A Year Ago. The Exceptions Are Worth Noting: Israel, India, Nigeria, South Africa, And Turkey
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#66 Enjoy Your Summer Holidays My Dear European Friends!
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#67 Germans And Scandinavias Holidaying In Spain Lose Their Mind Over The Late Dinners
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#68
This chart shows what baby names peaked in each decade in the US. The postwar Larry boom is long gone, the Jennifer-hype of the 70s and 80s died down, but Oliver is still on the rise
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#69
We are being shown how people in Slovakia reference other European nations in their idioms. Germans also use the stingy Scotsman stereotype
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#70 Europe Felt The Heat In 2024. Ok, Iceland Didn’t
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Almost one third of Russians are opposed to vaccines. The second ranked country is the world’s most advanced economy happily shooting itself not in the arm but in the foot. My birth country of Germany also has unnecessarily high opposition
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#73
The wider the gap, the harder to find a partner. This should in turn further drive down birth rates. On top of this, the UK now has a reverse gender pay gap for young workers. Considering that women still prefer an equally or higher earning partner, birth rates should take yet another hit
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#74 This Map Shows The Number Of Ant Species In The 50 Most “Antsy” Countries
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#75 This Map Shows When (If Ever) Asian Nations Partook At The Fifa Football World Cup
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#76 Time Traveling Back To 600 Ad Europe, Would You Be Able To Communicate With Anyone?
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#78 Want To Swear But Kids Are Around? Use These Kid-Friendly Swear Words!
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#79
This map of Ukrainian deep strike capability is astonishing. Drone warfare is so hard to defend against. Any country not heavily investing in defensive and offensive drone technology is simply naive.
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#80
Wonderfully detailed map shows the Human Development Index across Europe. Concentration of development in Central Europe generally and within the big cities within each individual country
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#81 There Are European Cities That Have Been Continuously Inhabited For 7000-8000 Years!
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#82 Gay Marriage Is Slowly Moving Eastward
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#84 London Continues Turning Itself Into A Bicycle City!
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#85
This map shows the status of coal power in Europe as of 2024. Coal is being phased out. Now it’s time to drive down energy costs. Crucial considering the continent wants to be competitive in high end manufacturing, needs big data centers, and wants at least a bit of supply chain sovereignty.
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Share of the working age (25-64) population that holds at least a bachelor’s degree by country. In the 40% hold academic credentials. Super high considering the population size of the US and the extreme debt that people go into for degrees.
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16 countries are home to over 100 million people. 51% of countries officially recognized by the UN are smaller than 10 million residents. 36 countries are smaller than 1 million people.
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#88
Sure, big parts of our healthcare systems are in need of reform but please keep in mind what wonderful progress medicine and pharmaceuticals have given humanity as a whole in the last 100-150 years.
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#89 This Map Shows The Radioactive Fallout In The Us From Nuclear Testing. The First Test, Trinity, In New Mexico Is Visible
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#90 Life Expectancy At Birth In Europe As Of 2024. It Helps To Be Rich And To Eat Healthy
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#91
The Australian efforts towards tackling the public health issue that is smoking were super successful. Something the country should be proud of. Look at the huge number of ex smokers Australian policies created. Good stuff.
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#93 Share Of European Countries’ Population Living In The Capital City. Rome And Berlin Are Relatively Small Within Their Country – At Least When Compared To London, Paris, And Madrid
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#94 It’s Getting Warmer In Europe. In Case You Want To Travel Through Germany, This Map Might Be Of Use
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