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Support for A Single Unified European Army By Country

Last Updated: January 26, 2026 Leave a Comment

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Support for A Unified European Army By Country

Map created by Europe Magazine
The map above shows support for a unified European army by European country. From the map’s Instagram post:

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Ultra-Processed Food As A % of Household Food Consumption

Last Updated: January 17, 2026 Leave a Comment

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Ultra-Processed Food As A percentage of Household Food Consumption

The map above shows Ultra-processed food as a percentage of household purchases, from the journal Public Health Nutrition as reported in the Guardian in 2018..

Here are the full rankings:

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Number of CzechPOINTs In Every European Country

Last Updated: January 15, 2026 Leave a Comment

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Number of CzechPOINTs In Every European Country

Map created by ceskemapy
The map above shows the CzechPOINT locations per European country.

And, It should be noted that a CzechPOINT and checkpoint are two different things.

So what is CzechPOINT?

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Which Part Of Your European Country Is The Richest?

Last Updated: December 2, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Which Part Of Your European Country Is The Richest?

Map created by amazing__maps, visit his store here.
The map above shows which part of each European country is the richest.

Here they are grouped together, with an explainer where not obvious (hint it’s almost always where the capital is located).

I love the attempt at this and after looking into, it’s actually quite difficult.

That said, I’ve also put countries in bold where I dispute the claim:

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Map Supposedly Showing The Second Most Spoken Language In Each European Country

Last Updated: November 28, 2025 Leave a Comment

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The Second Most Spoken Language In Each Europe Country

Credit: nazar.data
The map above supposedly shows the second most commonly spoken language in each European country, and comes from this article from MSN, which in turn lists the source as “Information from national censuses and surveys.”

However, I think the data for some countries is rather suspect.

There is no way that 49% of people in France speak Arabic, or that 23% of people in the UK speak French (at least beyond ordering a pain au chocolat).

Similarly for Ireland, far more people know how to speak a few words in Irish than they do French. And if we’re going by native speakers then Polish has far more speakers than French.

That said many other countries do seem right.

Anyway here’s the data as reported:

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European Countries That End in -Land in German

Last Updated: November 7, 2025 Leave a Comment

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European Countries That End in -Land in German

The map above shows which European countries end in Land in German.

They are:
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European Countries With No Mountains

Last Updated: October 9, 2025 Leave a Comment

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European Countries With No Mountains

Map created by Amazing__Maps

The map above shows which European countries have some mountains and which has no mountains.

Mountains here is being defined as: “usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 600 metres (2,000 ft) above the surrounding land.”

Here’s the list:

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Share of 15-29 Year Olds With Two Native Born Parents

Last Updated: October 8, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Share of 15-29 Year Olds With Two Native Born Parents

Map created by @NeoptolemusII
The map above shows the share of 15-29 Year Olds in the EU (and a few other Eurostat reporting countries) who have two native born parents.

On the map it goes from a low of 45% in Switzerland to a high of 99.38% in Romania. (Luxembourg is actually the lowest at just 21%)

But there a few caveats to consider:

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Porn Stars Per Million People In Europe

Last Updated: October 7, 2025 1 Comment

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Porn Stars Per Million People In Europe

Original map created by reddit user YoghurtFields
I was finally able to track down the origin of this map to this reddit post from 7 years ago by user YoghurtFields.

It struck me as amusing that both Czechia and Hungary have 10x the number of porn stars compared to Slovakia which is sandwiched between them.

Here is the data from the map, along with some speculation as to why those countries as so much higher than the rest:

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A Bonkers 1920 Plan To Create The Central European Union Made-Up Of 24 “Kantons,” Each Named After A Prominent European City Within It

Last Updated: October 27, 2025 Leave a Comment

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A Bonkers 1920 Plan To Create The Central European Union

Map found on the Cornell Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
The map above was a rather insane plan to create a lasting peace in Europe following World War 1.

The map was published in German under the title: Das Neue Europa Mit Dem Dauernden Frieden. Die Unionisierung Mitteleuropas. (English: The New Europe With Lasting Peace. The Central European Union)

More about it below:

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