Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows which European countries have some mountains and which has no mountains.
Mountains here is being defined as: “usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 600 metres (2,000 ft) above the surrounding land.”
Here’s the list:
More about Neo-Tokyo:
The map above shows the 57 countries Bhutan has formal diplomatic relations with. Most notable is the absence of the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council (US, Russia, China, UK & France).
Here’s the full list:
The map above shows the estimated share of all marriages in each country that are consanguineous, which usually means between first and second cousins.
The data used comes from World Population Review:
On the map it goes from a low of 45% in Switzerland to a high of 99.38% in Romania. (Luxembourg is actually the lowest at just 21%)
But there a few caveats to consider:
The map above splits Canada in 6 different parts and asks you to pick the one you want to spend the rest of your life in.
The vast majority of non-Canadians would probably pick E as it includes both Vancouver and the Rocky mountains.
However, I would choose C as it includes where I grew up and all of my Canadian friends and family.
A little bit more about each of them for the non-Canadians among you:
The map above shows the location of 3,554 Shipwrecks Around Ireland where the location is known going all the way back to 1530. About their database:
It struck me as amusing that both Czechia and Hungary have 10x the number of porn stars compared to Slovakia which is sandwiched between them.
Here is the data from the map, along with some speculation as to why those countries as so much higher than the rest:
The map was published in German under the title: Das Neue Europa Mit Dem Dauernden Frieden. Die Unionisierung Mitteleuropas. (English: The New Europe With Lasting Peace. The Central European Union)
More about it below:
Here’s what each of them was up to at the time: