Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows one of the odder things about the world, not all countries define the first floor of a building the same way. For example, In Canada and the US the first floor is the floor at street level.
But, in the UK the floor at street level is called the ground floor and the next level up is called the first floor.
Something I found slightly confusing when I moved from Canada to the UK!
Recently, twitter user @47Tolkien has been posting some interesting genetic maps showing which areas of the world are more genetically similar to one group or country than another.
The data comes from https://mygeneticmaps.com/, here’s what he says about the maps:
The map above shows the places in the US where it’s acceptable for adults to put ketchup on a hot dog and Chicago.
Look at the map above and see if you can figure out where the following 26 cities are located.
Here are just a few fun maps showing how each US region voted in Presidential elections from 1948 to 2024.
The map above supposedly comes from the IISS (The International Institute for Strategic Studies) and shows which countries in 1900 (using modern borders) had more active miliary personnel than the United Kingdom in 1900 compared to today.
Getting data for the numbers in 1900 is actually difficult (can’t find them published online), but Data Is Beautiful has estimates that vary slightly from the map which you can see below:
Although it’s hard to believe given President Trump’s stance towards Canada in his second term, Ottawa really does have a Trump Avenue.
And unlike a number of other Canadian and other locations containing the word “Trump,” it wad deliberately named after Donald Trump.
These maps come from PayrollPrices.com and show the oldest family business in every country that is still in business.
The 50 maps below sow the country level results in each state for every single Presidential Election from 1992 to 2024.
You have Sweden and much of Western Europe as being in yellow (Level 2: Exercise increased caution) the same as South Africa.
However, just looking at homicides Sweden’s rate is 1/6th that of US, while South Africa’s is 46x times higher than Sweden and 7X higher than the United States.
You can see the latest rankings for all countries here.
But here are the categories used for making the map: