Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The two maps above show the German Reichstag election results of 31 July 1932 election compared to the results of the 23 February 2025 ones.
The 1932 election was notable as it was the first time the time the Nazi won the biggest share of the vote, although they fell far short of a majority, which they never achieved in any free and fair election.
Here are the results of the two elections:
So for example Ireland is marked in red because English is one of Ireland’s two official languages, but there are more English speakers living in the United States than either Ireland or the UK.
The map above only shows domestic flight routes within countries.
Large rich countries like the United States and China have loads whereas smaller countries have few to none.
But perhaps most striking is how few routes there are in Africa.
The map above shows the 10 busiest European flight routes back in pre-pandemic 2018 from inside the EU, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.
The numbers for 2021 are as follows (with number of passengers):
Under it, each state has at least 3 electoral college votes representing 1 congressperson, and 2 Senators.
The Electoral College is then tasked with electing the president every 4 years.
In our European example above the Vatican each vote would represent just 255 people whereas in Russia each vote would represent over 2 million people!
Micro states like Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Liechtenstein would also get 3 each the same as somewhere like Iceland with as much as 10X the population.
So here’s how the numbers work out for Europe as a whole (and someone has also done the work for if only the EU was included).
The map above shows the top 10 countries with the most islands. Sweden claims to have the most islands at 267,570 but only 984 of them are inhabited.
The data comes from WorldPopulationReview.com and you can see the list below:
The data used for the map comes from this List of settings for Shakespeare’s plays which was compiled by Laura Estill.
The full list is below:
The data comes from the Encyclopaedia Metallum for 2023.
The map above shows which has more searches Tesla or the Ford F-150.
It’s based on Google Trends data for the last 12 months.
Now, you may think it’s a bit unfair to compare searches for all of Tesla’s cars with searches for just the F-150, and you’d be right.
However, the sales figures between them are probably smaller than you might think.
