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The Racoon Invasion Of Germany

Last Updated: February 19, 2025 1 Comment

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The Racoon Invasion Of Germany

Map crated by sashas_maps
The map above shows how racoons (which are not native to Europe) have slowly been spreading across Germany.

As of 2024, it was estimated that there were over 2 million racoons in the country, but the government is seeking to euthanized them.

Until coming across this map I had no idea that racoons could be found anywhere in Europe, let alone in such big numbers.

So how did they get here?

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Filed Under: Germany

Biggest Soviet Cities in 1989 & How They’ve Grown or Shrunk Since

Last Updated: February 19, 2025 Leave a Comment

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The map above shows the 296 largest Soviet cities with a population of over 100,000 people in 1989.

The 23 largest with over 1 million people are named on the map.

The map above and the one below are both the work of Sasha Trubetskoy, one of my favourite map makers. He explained why made the map:

When I was looking for the Soviet Union’s largest cities, I couldn’t find any good list, let alone a map. Strange, I thought, considering that Russian Wikipedia seems to have incredibly detailed records of every Soviet city’s population.

And yet, nobody had collected them in one place.

I managed to find a report titled Статистика для всех (“Statistics For Everyone”) that summarizes the results of the 1989 Soviet Union Census.

Inside it was a list of cities, which amazingly enough was digitized so I could just copy and paste the data into a spreadsheet.

After some cleaning, some geocoding (God bless Nominatim), and some head-scratching with python’s Basemap, I came up with these maps. The text was added later using Adobe Illustrator, because Matplotlib’s text features are very frustrating.

Below you can see how these cities did in terms of growth and decline up until 2016:

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Filed Under: Russia

Long Island Stereotypes According To Urban Dictionary

Last Updated: February 19, 2025 1 Comment

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Long Island Stereotype Map According To Urban Dictionary

Map created by Sasha Trubetskoy
The map above shows the stereotypes of different parts of Long Island, NY. Sasha created it by:

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Filed Under: Other

Animated Map Of The Breakup of Yugoslavia 1989 – 2008

Last Updated: January 13, 2026 1 Comment

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The animated map above shows the breakup of Yugoslavia from 1989 until 2008. You can find out more about the states mentioned in the video below:

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Filed Under: Europe

Is The Majority Of Your Country Born In The 20th or 21st Century?

Last Updated: February 19, 2025 2 Comments

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Is The Majority Of Your Country Born In The 20th or 21st Century?

The map above looks at whether or not the majority of your country’s population is born in the 20th or 21st centuries as of January 1st, 2025.

The data is based on Median age data from the CIA Worldfact book.

Currently 56 countries & territories have a majority of people born this century, while 173 still have more people born in the 20th century.

You can see the full data, and when a country can expect to become majority born in the 21st century below:

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Filed Under: World Maps

Animated Timeline Map Of The Growth & Evolution Of Brazil’s Territory & States

Last Updated: February 19, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Map created by Michael Serra
The video map above shows a detailed timeline of the growth and evolution Of Brazil’s territory & state borders. As you can see there have been many changes over the course of nearly 500 years.

Reddit user LustfulBellyButton, created a super detailed timeline of the various important events in Brazilian history based off the video and maps above:

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Filed Under: Americas

The Entire History of the World Every Year In Just 60 Seconds

Last Updated: February 18, 2025 3 Comments

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The video above is Ollie Bye’s amazing tour de force video of The History of the World: Every Year.

As he describes it: “Since 200,000 BCE, humanity has spread around globe and enacted huge change upon the planet. This video shows every year of that story, right from the beginning.”

I had fun playing around with it and sped it up by 18x it’s normal speed so you can watch the whole thing in 60 seconds (see below).

However, if you actually want to see anything you’re better off watching the full version above.

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Filed Under: World Maps

Medical Related Bankruptcies by Country

Last Updated: February 18, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Medical Related Bankruptcies by Country

The map above shows the share of bankruptcies in each country that can be traced back to either direct medical costs and/or the costs related to lost income from health related problems.

Here’s more about the sources of the stats for each country:

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Filed Under: World Maps

How Many Spouses Must Be Present At A Wedding For The Marriage To Be Valid

Last Updated: February 17, 2025 2 Comments

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How Many Spouses Must Be Present At A Wedding For The Marriage To Be Valid

Map found on Maps On The Web via reddit
The map above shows the 4 states: Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and Montana that allow proxy marriages.

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Filed Under: United States

What Do Britons Call The Game Where You Knock On Someone’s Door & Run Away

Last Updated: April 22, 2025 1 Comment

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What Do Britons Call The Game Where You Knock On Someone's Door & Run Away

Map created from Matthew Smith & Adam McDonnell at YouGov
The map above shows the results of a new YouGov survey of more than 12,000 Britons on what they call the game. (Which is still technically illegal)

And despite having lived in the UK for 15 years I’ve never heard of the top 2 results: “knock down ginger” at 25%, and “knock a door run” at 21%.

Here are the results broken down by age, region and class.

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Filed Under: United Kingdom

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