Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
Map created by Visual Capitalist
The map above shows shows the number of Fortune 500 companies that are headquartered in each state. The data comes from the 2024 edition of the Fortune 500, which ranks America’s top companies by revenue (and not by profit or number of employees).
Here’s the full list by state:
The biggest is King Ranch at 825,000 acres or 3,338 km2 (1,289 sq miles).
This is more then double the size of London or 3 times larger than all 6 of Europe’s micro states combined.
Full list:
The map above shows the modern remnants of the Central Pangean Mountain Range in Scandinavia, Scotland, Greenland, the United States and Africa.
More about them below:
These 3 wonderful maps are all the work of Alex at Vividmaps (you can see an integrative version on his site).
They show the lone islands of voting support for Harris, Biden and Clinton in their respective US Presidential elections against Donald Trump visualised as topography maps rather than standard election maps.
Here are the ones for Biden in 2020 and Clinton in 2016:
Here are some notable observations and trends based on such maps:
Below is an overview of these states as they existed in 1776:
If the world’s 7.9 billion people lived in one city, how large would that city be if it were as dense as…?