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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Map of Countries With The World’s Tallest Building And/or Free Standing Structure Since 4,000 BC
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.
How Many Cities Over 1 Million People Does Each Country Have?
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 Is suspect it comes from this list on Wikipedia, but is now slightly out of date.
Map Showing Where Each Chess Piece Is Usually Captured
Yellow: More common for the piece to be captured there.
Purple: Less common.
1,000 Years Of National Borders In Europe On One Map
Here’s desfirsit explaining what he did:
Map Of The Longest Land Border For Each European Country
However, when looking through I did spot a few errors.
Names of European Languages In Their Own Language
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.
Americans Visiting Europe & Europeans Visiting America
The two maps here are poke fun at the idea of how both Americans and Europeans feel about travelling to each other’s countries.
Map of The Most Commonly Spoken Languages In Toronto Other Than English
The map above and below are both the work of Alex McPhee, aka Pronghorn maps.
And you can buy both of them on his website here.
The 17 Oddest Shaped Countries In The World & How They Came To Be
Below is my purely subjective list of the 17 oddest and weirdest shaped countries in world and why they are the shaped the way they are.
17. Italy
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