Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
Do you measure simply based on the city proper? Metropolitan area?
The map above attempts to solve that issue by looking at how many people live with 30km (18.6 miles) of the city centre of each European city. You can quibble that 30km is too much or not enough, but not on the general approach.
Here’s what the author of the map had to say about it:
The video above shows the smallest circle you can make that contains anywhere from 0.1% of the world’s population all the way up to 100% of it.
It comes from reddit user alexmijowastaken who explains that:
More on the sources and pros and cons below:
This video map above shows the numbered highway system in numerical order from Highway 1 all the way to Highway 730.
It excludes the Interstate System.
The video comes from this reddit post, from a user that has since deleted their account.
Here is more about the system and a full list of highways:
Here’s what’s going on:
Here’s a list below:
From the map author:
The map above shows one of my favourite random historical facts. Hungary, despite being landlocked, was run by Admiral Horthy who ruled as regent of of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 until 1944.
More about him below:
The map meme above shows what happened when Britain did and did not fully implement two state solutions to the former colonial holdings.
In the case of the partition of Indian, it was fully divided into two states: India and Pakistan (which was divided into East and West Pakistan).
Palestine/Israel on the other hand was not fully divided into two states.
The state of Israel was created in 1948, but the corresponding Arab state was not because of objections from Arab leaders and other neighbouring Arab states.
However, in both cases the result has been massive violence.
Here’s more about how the two processes went.
In 2012 Internet Explorer still reigned supreme in most of the English speaking world, with Chrome a popular choice elsewhere. Fast forward 13 years and Chrome has more less won with a few tiny holdouts.
Here is the global data by browser for March 2025: