
If you asked the average person what the biggest city in Europe was, most people would probably guess Paris or London.
But they’d be wrong.
Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
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If you asked the average person what the biggest city in Europe was, most people would probably guess Paris or London.
But they’d be wrong.
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For a huge majority, Chinese shopping app Temu was the “winner”. The original map author doesn’t list a source, but there are several different websites that track these things which you can see below.
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The map above shows which countries use a unique currency symbol when showing prices (e.g. $, £, €) vs countries that just display prices using letters from the alphabet (RS, kr, etc.)
And in case you’re wondering what symbols are used:
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The map concept comes from architecture firm XML‘s research into the various shapes of the world’s parliaments.
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The map above supposedly shows the most popular holiday destinations for people from each European country.
But what does the data actually say?
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Normally the flight would travel a distance of 496 KM (308 miles).
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Saudi Arabia’s Highway 10 is famous for its extraordinary straightness, holding the Guinness World Record for the longest uninterrupted stretch of straight road globally.
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The two maps here were created by @vinemapper and show which counties have a great share of people with English or Irish ancestry above and English or German ancestry below.
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The map above shows alternative names for each European countries using ChatGPT. From the map’s author:
I asked AI (ChatGPT) to create new names for European countries 🤖 Source: ChatGPT
What do you think of them?
I thought it might be fun to ask ChatGPT to look at the map, match the fictional name to the real country and give a possible explanation here’s the unedited result:
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The vast majority of the world’s population lives in the North-East quadrant as based on the Prime Meridian and Equator.