Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The Caprivi Strip, also known as the Zambezi Region, is a narrow protrusion of Namibia that extends eastward from the main body of the country.
It stretches approximately 450 km (280 miles) between Botswana to the south, Angola and Zambia to the north, and almost (but not quite) Zimbabwe to the east (see below).
The map above shows all the English counties that end in Shire. In alphabetical order they are:
The map above shows where people in the US get the most speeding tickets relative to population density. Here is a little bit more about the data:
This cave is notable for being one of the deepest known caves in the world.
Here are the key points from the map:
Nevertheless, many Mongolians have left Mongolia to search for opportunities elsewhere and here’s where they go:
It’s one of the most interesting groups in the world as 50-80 million people worldwide claim some sort of Irish ancestry.
Yet the island of Ireland (Republic + Northern Ireland) only has a population of around 7 million, meaning there is around a 10:1 ratio of Irish living outside of Ireland as on it.
Here are the estimated numbers by country:
The map above shows 48 hypothetical US states centered around the 48 largest urban areas, such that every point in a state is closer to its urban core than to any other.
This is known a Voronoi partition.
It also shows the predicted number of electoral college votes each state would have, and which way it would lean politically.
The map above looks at the most vegetarian and vegan friendly US states based on the number of restaurants per million people. Just looking at the map you can see a clear coastal bias for these restaurants compared to more inland states.
Here’s the breakdown by State:
The map above looks at the most and least friendly countries for Vegetarians & Vegans in Europe based on the number of restaurants per million people.
Here’s the breakdown by country:
