How Much of the World Have You Seen? See The % Of Countries You’ve Visited
Mercator Vs The True Size of Each Country (New Comparison Tool)
While it’s well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how much. Countries close to the equator barely change, whereas countries further north shrink dramatically.
The maps are all the work of climate data scientist @neilrkaye.
You can see an animation below:
[Read more…]Are Restaurants Legally Required To Offer Free Tap Water?
The map above shows where in the world restaurants have a legal requitement to offer free tap water and where they don’t. Of course there is nothing stopping restaurants in areas where it is not legally required doing so, just they don’t have to.
MonotoneCreeper explains:
Visualizing The Population of Various Countries
The following maps are all the work of reddit user KaleyTheKing. Each block on each map represents 0.1% of the country’s population.
Let’s have a look:
Monarchs Who Have Addressed A Joint Meeting of Congress
The map above shows how many Monarchs (Kings & Queens) have addressed a joint meeting of the US Congress throughout history, and I’m surprised how low the numbers are. According to Congress.gov: King Charles is the 11th king or queen to address a joint meeting of Congress.
The others in order are:
Number of Data Centers By Country
The map above shows the number of Data Centers by country in the world according to Data Center Map and based off their numbers the US is the clear leader with over 4,000 compared to its next closest competitor the UK which has just 509.
China is listed as only having 369 which seems suspiciously small.
So how is the data gathered? Data Center Map states:
Map Showing the Spread of Christianity Between 33 & 2000AD
And the overall number of Christians in each century.
The source for the population numbers comes from:
The 10 Happiest & Unhappiest Countries In The World
The map above shows the 10 happiest countries in the world based on the World Happiness Report 2026.
And as you can see all but 2 are European countries. From the report:
Countries Where More Than 2% Of The Population Are Sikhs
The map above shows an interesting fact. While the majority of Sikhs live in India and Sikhism itself comes from there, the country with the highest share of Sikhs is not India but Canada.
The map below shows that only 3 countries have a Sikh population above 1%:
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