Map created by Milos PopovicThe map above was created by Data Analyst Milos Popovic and shows how Europe’s population has changed between 1990 and 2020. Green = growth and pink = decline.

Here’s a full explanation from Milos:

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Map created by SGP.MAPS found via reddit.

The map above shows where ethnic Germans, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Slovaks, Lithuanians and Jews lived in the borders of modern around 1914.

In many areas Germans made up to 95% of the population. So what happened?

To start in 1914 there was not Polish state and the Polish people were split between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia.

For more on that process see:

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Map created by languages.eu

The map above shows what the English idiom, “It’s all Greek To Me” (something is completely unintelligible or impossible to understand) is in other European languages.

For example, in Greece it translates to: “It’s Chinese to me”. Other alternatives include Hebrew, Spanish Villages and railway stations?

See below for a list by language (from Omniglot the source for this map) including some that didn’t make it onto the map:

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Map created by languages.euThe map above shows what the bishop chess piece is called in other European languages. Everything from elephant (?) to jester to runner to spear.

Here’s a list of the various names in European and other languages:

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Map created by Maps.InterludeThe map above shows the location of places with the longest names in Europe.

Here’s the full list:

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Map created by reddit user bezzlefordThe map above shows which countries in Europe have a life expectancy of over 80 years (Live), a World Happiness report score of over 6.5 (Laugh) and which countries are in the top 20% in the world giving Index (Love).

The map author explains:

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Map created by Maps.InterludeThe map above shows the number of people who can claim Polish ancestry worldwide by country, plus Poles who have more recently emigrated from Poland.

There are around 20 million people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland today, compared to Poland’s current population of around 38 million.

Here are some estimates by country (note estimates differ somewhat from the map above)

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The two maps above show Europe’s beaver population in 1900 compared to 2021.

They both come from this wonderful video by Qarol Mapping:

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The map above was created by jakubmarian.com and shows the 3 most common street names used in various European countries, translated into English (you can see the native language version below:

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Map created by @languages.euThe map above is a bit meta and shows the origin of how to say the word map in various European countries.

• Red = From Ancient Greek khartés (“paper”)
• Blue = From Latin mappa (“napkin”)
• Purple =  Both words are used
• Yellow = Other word: Irish: léarscáil, Hungarian: térkép, Slovene: zemljevid, Lithuanian: žemėlapis

Below you can find a complete list of words from Europe in a Day:

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