The map above compares Israel vs Iran on a number of dimensions. The first thing to note is that Iran is much, much bigger than Israel (around 75x bigger).

It also has lots more people. Here are the main comparisons:

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Map created by the.world.in.mapsThe map above shows a rather mindboggling fact. Tiny Tenerife get more tourists each year than Big Brazil. From the original map author:

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Map created by reddit user asiasbutterflyThe map above shows support for joining (or re-joining) the EU by country as of 2022. All the way from 94% in Albania to a low of 7% in Switzerland.

More on the sources and pros and cons below:

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This video map above shows the numbered highway system in numerical order from Highway 1 all the way to Highway 730.

It excludes the Interstate System.

The video comes from this reddit post, from a user that has since deleted their account.

Here is more about the system and a full list of highways:

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The map above shows how many operation suspension railway systems each country has. Germany is the clear lead with 4 (the most famous of which is the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, but Japan and China also have operating systems.

Here is the list:

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Map created by Bengt-Inge LarssonThe map above shows which side of the track trains use on double-track railway lines across Europe. And what’s suprising is that it doesn’t follow who drives on the left or right.

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The two maps here show how few countries have a claim to having once had the world’s tallest building and/or free standing structure since 4,000 BC.

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Map created by Jakub MarianThe map above shows the name of various European languages in their own native language. Whereas the map below shows the same languages by their English names.

And as noted by Jakub:

Please note that when there are two forms of a name that differ only by the inclusion of the word “language”, the map shows the more common variant. For example, Polish is called either język polski or polszczyzna, but the former variant is significantly more common than the latter one, so it is the one shown in the map.

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The map above shows what the world would look like if you removed all countries in the world with over 50 million people.

The remaining countries would have a combined population of just 1.8 billion, a decline of 75% from the over 8 billion who are alive today.

But the earth would only lose 67,569,201 sq km (26,088,614 sq miles) of land or around 45% of the earth’s total land area.

Spain becomes the world’s most populous country with 49,077,984 people. And Canada would become the world’s largest country by area and 7th most populous.

Full list of the 30 countries removed (with population figures) and a few other observations:

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