The video above shows a very simplified version of the 21-Year Long Great Northern War using Google Maps.

I was very much inspired to find a video map of the war because of the wonderful The Rest is History series on it.

Here’s more about the war:

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Map created by Maps.InterludeThe map above shows the most common blood type by European country. However, as the maps below show, the differences in the numbers between countries with more O+ and A+ is often quite small.

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The map above looks at which parts of Europe are richer or poorer than East Germany in 2023. The data comes from Eurostat and is based on Purchasing power standard (PPS, EU27 from 2020), per inhabitant.

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Map created by reddit user PisseGuri82

The map above is a stunningly detailed look at Viking Expansion between 790 and 1066.

Here’s what’s included in the legend:

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Map created by Frierfjord1Which city is the biggest is always controversial.

Do you measure simply based on the city proper? Metropolitan area?

The map above attempts to solve that issue by looking at how many people live with 30km (18.6 miles) of the city centre of each European city. You can quibble that 30km is too much or not enough, but not on the general approach.

Here’s what the author of the map had to say about it:

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Map created by the The World In MapsThe map above shows where in Europe it’s legal and illegal to drink coffee while driving in Europe. So what’s going on with the Greeks in Greece and Cyrpus?

From the map author:

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The map above shows one of my favourite random historical facts. Hungary, despite being landlocked, was run by Admiral Horthy who ruled as regent of of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 until 1944.

More about him below:

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The map above looks at the population of Greece compared to Turkey between 1927 and 2024. Turkey went from having just over double the population of Greece in 1927 to being more than 8 times larger than Greece today.

You can see the numbers for the 4 years shown in the map below:

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The map above shows what percentage of Europeans think their government is hiding a cure for cancer.

It comes from Eurobarometer’s 2025 report on European citizens’ knowledge and attitudes towards science and technology.

The question they asked was the following:

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Map created by reddit user Extension-Sink7777

The map above shows the largest supermarket chains from each European country. It should be noted that this does not mean that these are the only chains operating within the country or even the biggest within the country.

For example, Aldi is the 5th largest supermarket chain in the UK, but because it originates in Germany it’s shown in Germany.

Here are the top 20 chains across all of Europe from Gourmet Pro.

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