Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above is an interesting examples of land doesn’t vote, people do.
It shows the 2020 Presidential race results by precinct in both Kansas and Missouri. Just looking at the map you’d expect Trump (in red) won 90%+ of the vote in each state.
And while he did win both states, it was by a much smaller margin than the maps above would suggest.
The map above gives a very rough population estimated for various parts of the Roman Empire in 165 AD. It should of course be noted that these are best guesses as we don’t have detailed census records from the Romans than we do for modern countries.
Nevertheless, I thought it would be fun to look at estimated the population of the regions in 165 and compare them to the modern populations.
All of the amazing and brilliant population density maps presented here are the work of @researchremora. You can find more maps on their X/twitter here, Instagram here and Threads here.
The map above shows 5 Areas of Brazil With The Same Population of 43 million people each. Basically, a lot of people live on or near the coasts.
Although that said, roughly 43 million people, around the same population as all of Canada, live in the innermost area.
You can see it a bit more clearly in this population density map:
The map above shows Google’s official Street View coverage as of 15 October 2024. The United States, Western Europe, Japan and India among others are all really covered.
The map above shows what starting and losing two world wars did to the distribution of the German language throughout Europe between 1910 and 2010.
The map above shows over 100 different football grounds of Great Britain and you can buy a copy here.
From the author:
It feels like there is a lot of doom and gloom in the world today, from global warming to crime to economic and integrational inequality to political polarization, etc.
It’s very easy to get wrapped up in this negative view of the world and I’m far from immune to it.
I’m now in my early 40s and have 3 young kids and I regularly worry about the type of world they’ll grow up and live in.
