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Satellite View Of The Newmarket Health Centre & Fertility Clinic?

Last Updated: April 23, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Satellite View Of The Newmarket Health Centre & Fertility Clinic

The Satellite map above shows the Newmarket Health Centre and Fertility Clinic or does it?

While I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble…

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The Size of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Over The United States

Last Updated: April 10, 2025 Leave a Comment

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The Size of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Over The United States

Map created by The Ocean Cleanup
The map above shows the size and garbage density of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch relative to the United States. It was created by the The Ocean Cleanup.

Here’s a little more about it from their website:

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Filed Under: United States

Where Nuclear Weapons Are Stored In Europe

Last Updated: April 10, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Where Nuclear Weapons Are Stored In Europe

Map created by @geoglobal_
The map above shows where nuclear weapons are stored in Europe. Russia, The UK and France are the only fully nuclear capable countries in Europe at the present time.

However, its estimated the US has around 100 warheads in Europe in various locations in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey. On the flip side Russia may also have warheads in Belarus, which is a very close Russian ally.

Here are the numbers by country:

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Filed Under: Europe

12 Ways To Break The USA

Last Updated: April 10, 2025 1 Comment

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12 Ways To Separate The US

The map above is another work of Yanko Tsvetkov in his Atlas of Prejudice series.

It shows 12 different ways you can separate the US into different regions.

They are:
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Filed Under: United States

Map of Countries With The World’s Tallest Building And/or Free Standing Structure Since 4,000 BC

Last Updated: April 10, 2025 2 Comments

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How Long Did Each Country Have The Worlds tallest building

The two maps here show how few countries have a claim to having once had the world’s tallest building and/or free standing structure since 4,000 BC.

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How Many Cities Over 1 Million People Does Each Country Have?

Last Updated: April 9, 2025 Leave a Comment

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How Many Cities Over 1 Million People Does Each Country Have?

Map created by reddit user Joergen-the-second

The map above shows how many cities above a million people each country has. Is suspect it comes from this list on Wikipedia, but is now slightly out of date.

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Map Showing Where Each Chess Piece Is Usually Captured

Last Updated: April 8, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Map Showing Where Each Chess Piece Is Usually Captured

Map created by reddit user desfirsit
The map above shows, where chess pieces go to die aka how often each piece was captured on a given square.

Yellow: More common for the piece to be captured there.

Purple: Less common.

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1,000 Years Of National Borders In Europe On One Map

Last Updated: February 26, 2026 Leave a Comment

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1,000 Years Of National Borders In Europe On One Map

Map created by reddit user desfirsit
The map above shows the cumulative border changes in Europe over 1,000 years in 100 year increments from 1,000 AD – 2,000 AD.

Here’s desfirsit explaining what he did:

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Map Of The Longest Land Border For Each European Country

Last Updated: March 27, 2026 7 Comments

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Flag Map Of The Longest Land Border For Each European Country

Map created by reddit user ItMightBeZenith
The map above is a mostly accurate flag map of the longest border for each European Country.

However, when looking through I did spot a few errors.

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Filed Under: Europe

Names of European Languages In Their Own Language

Last Updated: April 15, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Names of European Languages In Their Own Language

Map created by Jakub Marian
The map above shows the name of various European languages in their own native language. Whereas the map below shows the same languages by their English names.

And as noted by Jakub:

Please note that when there are two forms of a name that differ only by the inclusion of the word “language”, the map shows the more common variant. For example, Polish is called either język polski or polszczyzna, but the former variant is significantly more common than the latter one, so it is the one shown in the map.

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