Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows just how big London’s population is compared to several large US cities. But it should be noted that the numbers for all cities (including London) are for the city proper, rather than the larger urban or metropolitan area.
Here are the cities by the numbers:
The map above is another fantastic map from Perrin Remonté. It shows what Europe might look like if all the glaciers (by which he means Ice) on Earth melted.
Here’s what he says about the map:
Here’s a little more about each of them:
The map above shows a potential American Road trip you can do without ever having to leave the UK. Here are the size comparisons between the various stops:
Although they were not alone Spain went from wine to beer and Sweden did the reverse going from beer to wine.
Here’s a bit more on the map:
You can read a 40 page detailed description of the map here.
But if you don’t have time to read the whole thing here’s a brief summary:
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: