
From the notes on the map by Cornell:
Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
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From the notes on the map by Cornell:
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The map above shows which of the 10 biggest cities in the world is closest to you (of course there’s a decent chance you may even live in one of them).
The author has gone with the 2018 estimates by the United Nations for their list of the 10 biggest.
The UN figures include a mixture of city proper, metropolitan area, and urban area and has a list of 81 cities with a population of over 5 million as you can see below:
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The map above shows what percentage of Europeans think their government is hiding a cure for cancer.
It comes from Eurobarometer’s 2025 report on European citizens’ knowledge and attitudes towards science and technology.
The question they asked was the following:
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To put that in some comparison the Hiroshima bomb was only about 15 kilotons.
Here’s more about them and their nuclear weapons program:
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Here’s a little more about each of them:
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The map above shows which countries use Celsius for measuring outdoor temperatures and which still use Fahrenheit.
According to World Population Review the following 19 countries use Fahrenheit (often in conjunction with Celsius):
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In the UK this is known by a variety of names including:
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The map above shows the largest supermarket chains from each European country. It should be noted that this does not mean that these are the only chains operating within the country or even the biggest within the country.
For example, Aldi is the 5th largest supermarket chain in the UK, but because it originates in Germany it’s shown in Germany.
Here are the top 20 chains across all of Europe from Gourmet Pro.
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In total there have been 266 267 official popes (and 29 antipopes) since 30 AD.
Below we have a list of where they were born but it varies slightly from the list above.
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The map above shows how much GDP is created by every hour worked in a country measured in constant 2021 International $ at PPP.
Basically, this means it shows how much economic output a typical worker is producing in economy relative to the cost of living in that country. Or to put another way how productive an economy is.