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What The Bishop Chess Piece Is Called In Europe & What It Means

Last Updated: March 18, 2025 Leave a Comment

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What The Bishop Chess Piece Is Called In Europe & What It Means

Map created by languages.eu
The map above shows what the bishop chess piece is called in other European languages. Everything from elephant (?) to jester to runner to spear.

Here’s a list of the various names in European and other languages:

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Map Of The Longest Place Names In Europe

Last Updated: March 18, 2025 4 Comments

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Map Of The longest Place Names In Europe

Map created by Maps.Interlude
The map above shows the location of places with the longest names in Europe.

Here’s the full list:

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Does your country ‘Live, Laugh, Love’?

Last Updated: March 18, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Does your country Live, Laugh, Love?

Map created by reddit user bezzleford
The map above shows which countries in Europe have a life expectancy of over 80 years (Live), a World Happiness report score of over 6.5 (Laugh) and which countries are in the top 20% in the world giving Index (Love).

The map author explains:

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US Jewish Population by County

Last Updated: March 17, 2025 Leave a Comment

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US Jewish Population by County

Map created by the Jewish Electorate Institute

The map above shows the total number of Jews living in the United States. Overall, the map creators estimate that there is a total Jewish population in the United States of 7,698,840 people.

And given that the total U.S. Population is 334,914,095 people, it means 2.3% of the total US population is Jewish.

Here is the data by state:

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Map Of Polish Descendants & Diaspora Worldwide

Last Updated: March 17, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Map Of Polish Descendants & Diaspora Worldwide

Map created by Maps.Interlude
The map above shows the number of people who can claim Polish ancestry worldwide by country, plus Poles who have more recently emigrated from Poland.

There are around 20 million people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland today, compared to Poland’s current population of around 38 million.

Here are some estimates by country (note estimates differ somewhat from the map above)

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Beaver Populations By Type in Europe: 1900 vs. 2021

Last Updated: March 17, 2025 1 Comment

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Beaver Populations in Europe: 1900 vs. 2021

The two maps above show Europe’s beaver population in 1900 compared to 2021.

They both come from this wonderful video by Qarol Mapping:

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Map Of Africa in 1880: 5 Years Before the Scramble

Last Updated: January 19, 2026 Leave a Comment

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Map Of Africa in 1880: Before the Scramble

Map created by @Dani6CBP
The map above shows roughly who controlled what parts of Africa in 1880.

This is just 5 years before the Berlin Conference in 1885 that would launch the so-called “Scramble for Africa,” of full European domination and conquest of the continent.

However, as you can clearly see in the map above European colonization was already well underway at this point.

You can see the comparison in the following simplified map:

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Korean Diaspora & Immigrants By Country

Last Updated: March 14, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Korean Diaspora & Immigrants By Country

Map created by Maps.Interlude

The map above shows the number of Korean immigrants and/or people having Korean ancestry by country around the world.

Interestingly, there are more Koreans living in the United States than there are in either neighbouring China or Korea’s previous colonial ruler Japan.

As of 2023 there were an estimated 7,081,510 Koreans living abroad compared to 26.3 million living in North Korea and 51.4 million living in South Korea.

Here are the full stats by country (differs slight from the map above):

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The Technate of America: A Plan To Replace Partisan Politicians & Business People With Scientists & Engineers

Last Updated: March 14, 2025 3 Comments

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The Technate of America: A Plan To Replace Partisan Politicians & Business People With Scientists & Engineers

Map created by Scott, Howard accessed from Cornell Library
The map above from 1940 shows the proposed Technate of America.

This was basically a plan to run all of North America and some of South American by scientists and engineers rather than partisan politicians and business people.

Interestingly Joshua N. Haldeman, Elon Musk’s maternal grandfather, was a supporter of the plan between 1936 to 1941.

Here’s summary of Technocracy movement itself.

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3 Most Common Street Names In Each European Country

Last Updated: March 13, 2025 4 Comments

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3 Most Common Street Names By European Country in English

The map above was created by jakubmarian.com and shows the 3 most common street names used in various European countries, translated into English (you can see the native language version below:

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