Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows the location of Oklahoma which at one point was part of the Republic of Texas, before Texas joined the United States in 1845.
The story of the Oklahoma Panhandle, that narrow, rectangular strip of land at the state’s far west, is one of the quirkiest tales in American geography.
Its evolution from being part of Texas, to becoming “No Man’s Land,” and finally part of Oklahoma involves a mix of statehood law, slavery politics, and settlement patterns.
Here’s how it happened:
See this map:
Here’s the story behind the two Kansas Cities: one in Kansas and the bigger, older one in Missouri:
The map above shows which countries the US has lost wars or other military conflicts to. However, defining what is a loss is very tricky.
The map above shows what the US might look like if it all 50 states radiated out from the centre of the country. From the map author:
Manhattan today has over 600,000 fewer people living on it than it did before the advent of the majority of the skyscrapers that define its iconic skyline today.
It obviously draws the idea of a proposed Israeli-Palestinian two state solutions such as Trump’s Peace Plan For Israel & Palestine, which would have included a West Bank to Gaza Tunnel linking the two territories together. And on the overall level of political division within America.
But would it work?
Below I give my not terribly serious answer.
From the map author:
The maps below compare how many school shooting incidents and deaths there are in the US compared to various European countries.
I have is published all the data below along with notes on sources and methodology.
