Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows what percentage of people (over 25) who live in each US county have completed high-school. Wyoming is the clear winner with all counties being above 88% (the highest category). At the other extreme some counties have rates as low as 33%
Here is the breakdown by county:
Here’s the list:
In total, 21 states have given birth to a president and 29 have not.
Florida is the most populous state without a president being born there. Whereas Vermont is the least populous state to be home to a president (2 of them in fact).
Here is a full list by state:
I love this map. It shows what decade the 50 tallest buildings in each city (including those under construction) were completed. All the way from before the 1950’s until the 2020s.
Here’s what LivinAWestLife had to say about the map:
Each European country is shown covering a region in the U.S. that has a similar economic output.
Between 1982 and 2022, the population grew from 231,665,106 to 333,287,557 people a 44% increase. But all of that growth occurred in the green areas in the map above.
The map above shows the origins for US state names. The vast majority come from Native / Indigenous words, followed by English related names (royalty, places or aristocracy), then names coming from Spanish, followed by names from French, and finally disputed and/or other origins.
The creators of the map cited Fact Montser as there source for these names.
Here’s a bit more about each one:
Currently, the electoral college is based on the number of congresspeople in each state + 2 senators. So states like Wyoming, get 3 electoral college votes, despite having fewer people than over 100 US counties.
In total there are 538 electoral college votes: 435 members of Congress, 100 for Senators and 3 votes for DC.
Here’s the list of how many electoral votes each state would gain or lose if they were proportional to the population: