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Most of the time stereotypes are inaccurate, but every once in awhile their not. And the map above is the perfect illustration of this. It shows the number of cycle paths across Europe.

One very clear thing emerges, true to the stereotype the Dutch have a lot of cycle paths.

In fact according to Statista:

As of 2022, it was estimated that there were approximately 23.9 million bicycles in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of the country totaled 17.6 million, meaning there were an average of 1.4 bikes per person in the country. The number of bicycles in the country has been on an upward trend for the past years.

I love when maps like this are clearly not population density maps and can tell us something interesting about cultural differences in Eruope.

Map created by Nerdy.MapsThe map above shows the percentage of people who live in the wider metro area and/or agglomeration of the country’s capital city.

Unsurprisingly, the numbers are highest in many of Europe’s smallest countries such as Malta (82%) and Luxembourg (82%) and exclude micro-states like the Vatican or San Marino where it would be 100%.

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Map created by Näytä DataThe map above shows how alcoholic drink preferences in Europe are not static. Between 1990 and 2015 several countries switched their preferred alcoholic beverage, most notably Russia and Eastern Europe moving from spirits to beer.

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:

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Map created by amazing__mapsThe map above shows where some of Europe’s biggest supermarket chains operate. The big lesson is that everyone seems to want to be in Poland.

I wonder why?

Here’s a brief overview of each of the supermarket chains featured in the image:

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The map above shows how likely you are to be offered food as a guest in someone’s house, outside of being invited for a meal.

In Southern Europe and the Balkans you’re almost certain to be offered (or even forced) to have some food.

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Map created by Amazing__mapsI love this map, who knew the Bulgarian “Leaving the English Way” was the equivalent to the English, “Irish Goodbye.” Here are the rest of them:

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Map created by amazing__mapsThe map above shows how you say peace in various European languages the English Peace to French Paix to the Russian Mir and Scandinavian Fred.

Here’s the full list:

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Map found on redditThe map above shows how many national referendums have been held in each European country’s history. I believe it excludes regional ones (e.g. Scotland’s 2014 Indyref).

The data comes from this page on Wikipedia, so may be missing some.

Here’s the number by country:

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Map created by FlaviphoneThe areas in green above are Muslim majority areas in the Balkans. And here is a little bit more information about them:

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Map created by jakubmarian.comThe map above shows which countries use which alphabet in Europe. The most common by far is Latin, followed by Cyrillic and then Greek.

You can also see a more detailed map below which also includes Georgian and Armenian:

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