Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows the number Admissions of Permanent Residents by Country of Citizenship to Canada between 2015 and 2025. Data comes from the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) monthly updates.
Here’s the full total for each country below (my numbers are full year to the end of 2025 which is why India is slightly higher):
The map above shows the number of times each country’s name appears in the Epstein files. I had an idea to do a similar map, but then I saw that reddit user Extreme-Shopping74 had beat me to.
Here are a few key things from the map:
The map above shows the 100th Meridian West as it passes through Canada.
And the reason only Canadians will be able to hear it, is that it’s among the Tragically Hip’s most famous songs.
The Hip are relatively unique among Canadian bands in that they became extremely popular in Canada without any corresponding success in the United States or other countries around the world. This article from the BBC does a good job of summing up their success from an outsiders perspective.
Oh and you can listen to the song below:
The map above splits Canada in 6 different parts and asks you to pick the one you want to spend the rest of your life in.
The vast majority of non-Canadians would probably pick E as it includes both Vancouver and the Rocky mountains.
However, I would choose C as it includes where I grew up and all of my Canadian friends and family.
A little bit more about each of them for the non-Canadians among you:
The map above shows 2 Canadian provinces that 99% of Americans most likely can’t name.
If you’re unsure about the answer yourself, have a look at the map below for a clue:
Canada’s territory of Nunavut is both Canada’s largest and least populated province or territory.
It covers and area of 1,877,778 km2 or nearly 8x the size of the UK or 2.5x the size of Texas.
It’s so big that makes up about one-fifth of Canada’s total land area.
But it has a population of just 36,858 people.
This is so few people that only 5 countries in the world have fewer people:
The map above shows how crazy Canada’s population distribution is.
The blue island is Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada’s smallest and least populous province.
If it wasn’t for Anne of Green Gables the island would probably be almost entirely unknown outside Canada (or really within Canada for that matter).
The map above traces the origins of 4,000 of his daughter’s ancestors from Europe to Quebec in Canada from 1615 to 2025.
From the map’s author:
This map highlights how Canada’s population is heavily concentrated in just a few key regions.
Although Canada is the second-largest country in the world by land area, more than 70% of its 40 million residents, or 28 million people live within the coloured zones:
An area larger than India and if it were an independent country today it would be the 7th largest by land area.
It was also almost completely controlled by the Hudson’s Bay Company, the oldest company in North America, or at least it was until it announced it was likely going bankrupt in April 2025, ending it’s 355 year history.
More about it below: