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Map Showing How Cereals Took Over The World

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Data source: Xinyi Liu; Animation by Javier Ventura/Washington University

The map above shows how four of the world’s most important domesticated cereals spread across Europe, Asia and Africa between 7,000 and 3,500 years ago.

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Filed Under: World Maps

Map Showing 100 Years of Plane Crashes In 58 Seconds

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 1 Comment

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The video above was created by reddit user donatso and shows 100 years of plane crashes.

I’ve made a sped up version of it below:

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Filed Under: Uncategorized, World Maps

13 Countries & States That Can Fit Inside Canada’s Hudson Bay

Last Updated: July 2, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Canada’s Hudson Bay is the world’s second largest Bay after the Bay of Bengal.

It is 1,230,000 km2 (470,000 sq mi) about the same size as South Africa or almost twice the size of Texas.

But given it’s unique shape, I wondered what countries and/or US states you could fit inside it.

So here below is a bit of a random selection of places that I found fit inside.

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Countries That Are Richer or Poorer Than The United States Based On GDP (PPP) Per Capita

Last Updated: July 2, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Countries That Are Richer or Poorer Than The United States Based On GDP (PPP) Per Capita

The map above shows which countries are richer or poorer than the US based on GDP per capita in PPP $ dollars.

PPP $ account for the local cost of goods and services in a country rather than official exchange rates. The data comes from the IMF and is for 2025.

Below is a list both using $PPP and official exchange rates.

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Filed Under: World Maps

Is Your Country Richer or Poorer Than Kazakhstan?

Last Updated: July 2, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Is Your Country Richer or Poorer Than Kazakhstan?

The map above shows which countries are richer and which are poorer than Kazakhstan’s GDP per capita of $44,446 in PPP $ dollars.

PPP $ dollars measure how far your money goes in a given country rather than official exchange rates.

Here is a list of all countries richer than Kazakhstan based on that measure:

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Filed Under: World Maps

Punny Maps of The Foodnited States of America

Last Updated: July 3, 2025 1 Comment

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Punny Maps of The Foodnited States of America

Map created by Chris Durso at The Foodnited States

Chris Durso and his 8 year-old son have created a punny series maps collectively titled The Foodnited States of America.

Each map takes one food item that can be worked into the name of the state.

So far they’ve created 25 maps with new ones being released regularly via the Foodiggity.com instagram account.

They’ve completed all the states and better yet you can buy them all on their website here.

While not all the states are created from a food item you’d associate with them, they’re all quite clever.

Below are the ones for each state:

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Filed Under: United States Tagged With: food

Map Showing The Photosynthesis of the US Corn Crop

Last Updated: June 30, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Photosynthesis of the US Corn Crop

Map created by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The map above shows the Photosynthesis of the US Corn Crop which amazingly at the peak of the growing season it produces more oxygen than the Amazon Rain Forest!

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Wheat vs Rice Map: Where Is Each Grown In The World?

Last Updated: June 30, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Wheat vs Rice Map: Where Is Each Grown In The World

Map created by Wikimedia user AndrewMT

The two maps above the difference between where wheat and rice are grown in the world. The top map shows wheat and the bottom one shows rice.

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Mapping The World’s $1 Trillion Economies In 2025

Last Updated: June 30, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Mapping The World's $1 Trillion Economies

The map above shows the world’s 19 countries with a nominal GDP of over $1 trillion USD including the 13 subnational states/provinces that also have a GDP over that amount in order they are:

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The World’s 5 Biggest Economies

Last Updated: June 30, 2025 Leave a Comment

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The World's 5 Biggest Economies

One thing that continues to surprise me is just how big the US economy is, at least in nominal aka US dollar terms. The map above shows you could split the US economy in 3 and it would be the #1, #3 and #4 biggest economies.

Here are the sources used below:

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