Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows what happened to Jewish communities in the Arab world from the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 to 2012. in 1948 there may have been as many as 850,000 Jews living in Arab countries, today that number is less than 5,000.
Here’s a summary of some of them:
Here is the data (Herd per head in millions):
Probably one of the few maps that highlights, Wales, Northern England, the North and East of Ireland, Sardinia, and Greece.
And when the map was posted to reddit users had the following to say:
The video above was created by reddit user donatso and shows 100 years of plane crashes.
I’ve made a sped up version of it below:
The two maps above the difference between where wheat and rice are grown in the world. The top map shows wheat and the bottom one shows rice.
One thing that continues to surprise me is just how big the US economy is, at least in nominal aka US dollar terms. The map above shows you could split the US economy in 3 and it would be the #1, #3 and #4 biggest economies.
Here are the sources used below:
