Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows how many Monarchs (Kings & Queens) have addressed a joint meeting of the US Congress throughout history, and I’m surprised how low the numbers are. According to Congress.gov: King Charles is the 11th king or queen to address a joint meeting of Congress.
The others in order are:
The map above shows what the US House would look like if it had 100k people per district vs the over 750k people per district today.
Overall, you’d have a house with 3,350 members, which in this map would mean 1692 Democrats and 1658 Republicans.
About the inserst:
The following maps were all created by reddit user DM_me_fun_stuff_pls who explains:
After my last post on the Regions of Europe, a week ago, I have gotten over 200 responses on my survey on it, thank you for that! So here are the results of the survey.
Notes on the Survey and Map: Each category is normalized to the most voted country in each category. So 100% does not mean every single respondent chose this country but that it was the most chosen (although most of the times it was close).
It would probably be great and interesting to go into a lower level of subdivisions for some of these Regions, but honestly I don’t know how I would go about doing a survey for that, that is not a complete chore to respond to…
Above is a map the Sulu Sea between the Philippines and Borneo.
More about the Sea and its connection to Star Trek below:
The map above shows the shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world is between the Orkney islands of Westray and Papa Westray in northern Scotland, the flight is 1.7 miles (2.7 km) long and takes around 1 minute!
But why does it exist?
All of the following maps are the work of Todd Jones who is according to his website:
East Germany would join West Germany later that year on October 3rd.
More about this election and more maps below:
Ok so the title is a little confusing but hopefully when you look at the maps it will make a bit more sense.
The first map shows who the reigning British Monarch was when the US state became a state.
The map above shows the number of Data Centers by country in the world according to Data Center Map and based off their numbers the US is the clear leader with over 4,000 compared to its next closest competitor the UK which has just 509.
China is listed as only having 369 which seems suspiciously small.
So how is the data gathered? Data Center Map states:
