Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows where you can find most of the world’s major human language families. Although defining what is and isn’t a language can be quite difficult.
Here is a table with a list of the number world languages from Glottolog 5.0 and an estimated number of speakers from Ethnologue.
The map above shows which countries currently have IKEA stores, which countries have IKEA stores under construction and which countries used to have stores but no longer do (Russia).
In total, there are currently 473 IKEA stores operating in 63 countries and 5 territories. And this is where they are:
I wonder why?
Here’s a brief overview of each of the supermarket chains featured in the image:
The map above shows which countries have fully legalized same sex-marriage as of 1 October 2024, but does not show those that have alternative arrangements such as civil unions and/or domestic partnerships.
Same sex marriage is legal in 38 countries which have a combined population of 1.5 billion people (around 20% of the world’s population).
Here is a full list by year:
The map is from 2016, but here’s the breakdown of the percentage of people who can speaker English, French or who can speak both (Bilingual Speakers) by province in 2021:
Here’s a table of some of most notable ones:
Here’s more about the project.
The map above shows some of the minority language sin France in terms of where they are spoken, how many speakers there are and what percentage of the people living in that region are able to speak the language.
However, the map is now somewhat out of data here are the latest figures as of 2022 from Ethnologue.
All of these stunning elevation maps of the world’s continents (except Australia and Antarctica) are the brain child of cstats1 who you can follow on X/Twitter here and Instagram here.
And if you’d like to support them you buy something from their Amazon shop here.
The first map above is an elevation map of Europe. Here are the highest and lowest points in Europe: