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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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Post created by ConstructionFrosty77

The map above shows what the Mediterranean Sea might have looked like 6 million years ago. The creator of the map explains that:

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Map created by Landgeist

The map above shows which European countries consume the most wine per capita and which consume the least.

No surprise France is number 1 with 54 litres of wine per person per year, followed by Portugal (50L) and somewhat surprisingly Slovenia (44L).

At the other extreme you have Turkey (1L), Ukraine (3L) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (4L) consuming the least.

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Map created Visual Capitalist

The map above shows just how big the German Economy is relative to it’s neighbours. The red and yellow regions above each have 2024 GDP of roughly $4.6 Trillion USD (according to the IMF).

However, the region in yellow has around 157 million people compared to Germany’s 84.6 million.

Here’s a breakdown by country:

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Map created by Philipp Koch

The map above looks at the estimated GDP per capita of various European Regions in 1750, just as the industrial revolution was starting.

On a per capita basis, Northern Italy, The Dutch coast, Southern England and central Spain were among the richest areas.

Now, any estimate of historic GDP involves some guestimating (see: Roman Empire GDP) so here’s how they arrived at this data.

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