Map created by reddit user ConvilliousThe map above shows the 25 biggest private ranches in Texas.

The biggest is King Ranch at 825,000 acres or 3,338 km2 (1,289 sq miles).

This is more then double the size of London or 3 times larger than all 6 of Europe’s micro states combined.

Full list:

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Map found on redditThe map above shows what the borders of the 13 original states looked like on July 4th, 1776, the day The Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Below is an overview of these states as they existed in 1776:

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Map found on redditThe map above shows the locations for McDonald’s restaurants in the Tampa Bay, Florida area in 1974 where they claim you could get 5 different meals for less than $1.25.

The meals are:

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Gun Ownership By State Statistics

The table below gives the gun ownership breakdown for each US state with data coming from Data Panda.

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Map created by Sasha TrubetskoyThe map above shows an interesting fact about the United States, despite being the 4th largest country in the world by land area, it’s population and even more so it’s GDP is concentrated in just a few Urban areas.

Both the orange and blue areas each contribute 50% of America’s GDP.

From the author:

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Map found on redditThis map shows the United States’ railway network and urban population distribution around 1860, just before the Civil War.

Here are the key observations:

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This not so serious map was created in response to President Trump’s plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

But why stop there?

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The small purple dot on the map above shows Singapore which a population 6.04 million living in just 735.6 km2 (284.0 sq mi).

With a population density of 7,804/km2 (20,212.3/sq mi) it the densest country in the world with a population above 1 million people.

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Map created by IntoxiStates.com, click for interactive versionThe map above shows the drunkest and driest US counties based on the share of excessive drinkers.

The drunkest is Gallatin, MT where 26.8% of people are excessive drinkers.

And the driest is Utah, UT where only 9.04% of people are excessive drinkers.

From the website:

This website provides an interactive map of excessive drinking by county, based on CDC definitions.

The map leverages data from the latest annual datasets of the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) program.

Here are the full listing by state and county:

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All of these maps come from reddit user happygrizzly and reimagine the United States if only had X number of states between 1 and 20.

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