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Percentage of People That Think Their Country Has Benefited From Being In The EU

Last Updated: January 20, 2026 1 Comment

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Map created by Landgeist

The map above shows what percentage of people in each EU member state think that the EU has benefited their country. As Landgesit explains:

The exact question in the survey was: “Taking everything into account, would you say that (OUR COUNTRY) has on balance benefited or not from being a member of the EU?”. People could answer this question with “Benefited”, “Not benefited” or “Don’t know”.

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2022 Map Of Ukraine Showing Key Facts About The Country

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 4 Comments

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Map created by VisualCapitalist.com designed by Nick Routley

The 2022 map above shows key facts about Ukraine.

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Population Growth In European Countries Between 1960 & 2020

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 2 Comments

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Population Growth In European Countries Between 1960 & 2020

Map created by reddit user Lambda301

The map above shows the population increase (or decrease of various European countries between 1960 and 2020). Globally world population increased from 3.03 billion to 7.79 billion or a 157% increase.

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Hungarian Pamphlet From 1920 Protesting The Treaty of Trianon

Last Updated: January 22, 2026 12 Comments

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Hungarian Pamphlet From 1920 Protesting The Treaty of Trianon

Map found via reddit user poisonborz
The map above was distributed by the Hungarian Government to foreign locals protesting about the “unfairness” of the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.

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Migrating Birds In Europe: Map Visualization

Last Updated: July 2, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Map found via reddit.

The map above is a visualization of migrating birds in Europe taken from the German TV show Zugvögel.

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Countries Which Have At Some Point Claimed To Be Rome’s Successor

Last Updated: October 27, 2025 46 Comments

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Countries Which Have At Some Point Claimed To Be Rome's Successor

Map created by reddit user RutilantBoss
The map above shows which countries have claimed to the the successor to the Roman Empire at some point in their history (so called Third Rome). Learn more about each below.

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Kazakhstan Was The Last Soviet Republic To Leave The USSR (4 Days After Russia), Which Means That For 4 Days, This Was The Map Of The Soviet Union

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 6 Comments

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Kazakhstan Was The Last Soviet Republic To Leave The USSR (4 Days After Russia), Which Means That For 4 Days, This Was The Map Of The Soviet Union

Map created by Shadowxfox via Wikimedia and fact via reddit user Bram06

The map above is a map of the Kazakh SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic), which existed between December 5, 1936 and December 16, 1991 and by a quirk of history was the last of the Republics to leave the Soviet Union.

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Public Image Of The EU Before & After Brexit Referendum By EU Country

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 9 Comments

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Map above created by reddit user Reilly616

The map above shows how each European Union (EU) country views the EU as a whole based on polls conducted by Eurobarometer in May 2016 vs November 2017.

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Regional EU GDP Per Capita 2004 vs 2014

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 4 Comments

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Regional EU GDP Per Capita 2004 vs 2014

Map crated by the European Parliamentary Research Service

The map above shows the relative GDP per capita of the EU-28’s NUTS 2 Regions in Purchasing Power Standard (PPS) in 2004 and 2014.

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GDP per Capita in Europe in 1890 (in 2017 $)

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 13 Comments

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GDP per Capita in Europe in 1890 (in 2017 $)

Map created by Reddit user Kamil1707

The map above shows the very approximate GDP per capita for various European states in 1890. Below we look at how these have changed over the past 127 years.

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