Map created by maven.mapping and the.world.in.mapsThe map above shows which European countries currently host at least one US military base. Here’s the list for all the countries mentioned above according to MilitaryINSTALLATIONS with links to more information about them.

However, note the list below is not exhaustive as the “site lists only those locations approved by the individual service branch. ”  Therefore, you can also see a more complete list below:

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Map created by ExcitingNeck8226The map above shows which countries in Europe have the largest number of speakers of their most widely spoken national languages and which ones don’t.

So for example Ireland is marked in red because English is one of Ireland’s two official languages, but there are more English speakers living in the United States than either Ireland or the UK.

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Map created by reddit user Gabberulf

The map above shows the 10 busiest European flight routes back in pre-pandemic 2018 from inside the EU, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.

The numbers for 2021 are as follows (with number of passengers):

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Map found on redditThe map above shows some of the ways you can say the name John in various European languages, however it’s far from exhaustive.

Wikipedia has a much more complete list which you can see below:

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Map created by reddit user xMusa24The map above shows the slight absurdities of the American Electoral College system. It redistributes the 538 electoral college votes used in the US system to the 50 countries in Europe seen above.

Under it, each state has at least 3 electoral college votes representing 1 congressperson, and 2 Senators.

The Electoral College is then tasked with electing the president every 4 years.

In our European example above the Vatican each vote would represent just 255 people whereas in Russia each vote would represent over 2 million people!

Micro states like Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Liechtenstein would also get 3 each the same as somewhere like Iceland with as much as 10X the population.

So here’s how the numbers work out for Europe as a whole (and someone has also done the work for if only the EU was included).

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Map created by reddit user dphayteeylThe map above shows where various Shakespearean plays have been set, based on modern borders.

The data used for the map comes from this List of settings for Shakespeare’s plays which was compiled by Laura Estill.

The full list is below:

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Map created by Europe MagazineThe map above shows how many metal bands there are in each European country per 1 million people.

The data comes from the Encyclopaedia Metallum for 2023.

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The animated map above shows the breakup of Yugoslavia from 1989 until 2008. You can find out more about the states mentioned in the video below:

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Map created by mapsinterludeThe map above shows how much of the area of the Alps each country around them controls. I always assumed that France or maybe Switzerland had more of the Alps compared to any other country, I certainly would not have guessed that Austria and Italy actually each had more.

Here are the figures:

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Map found on redditThis map is a satire on how European colonial powers historically drew borders in other parts of the world—often with little regard for ethnic, cultural, or geographic realities.

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