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The 26 Largest Islands In The World Compared

January 8, 2015 36 Comments

relative size of the 24 largest islands in the world

The relative size of the 24 largest islands in the world, map by reddit user evening_raga

The map above shows the relative size of the world’s 26 largest islands. Combined they cover 7.7 million square km (roughly the size of Australia) and have 540 million people living on them (behind only China and India).

If you’re curious to learn a bit more about them, below you can find their names, what country (or countries) they belong to, their areas and the population of each island (data from Wikipedia):

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Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: area, comparison, islands

The Pacific Ocean is Larger Than All Land On Earth

January 4, 2015 2 Comments

All land on earth compared to pacific ocean

Map by Chris Stephens, from naturalearthdata.com

While I’m sure you know the Pacific Ocean is big, I’d say there’s a good chance you hadn’t realized how big, until you look at the map above. As difficult as it may be to believe, the Pacific Ocean is larger than the landmass of every single continent and island combined.

In numbers:

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Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: comparison, oceans

Average Colour Hue of Country & US State Flags

January 3, 2015 5 Comments

Average colour hue of world flags

Map by reddit user delugetheory

Here’s the last post for awhile about flag colours. Previous posts have looked at The Shade of Red Each Country Has On Its Flag and Countries Whose Flags Contain Red and/or Blue. The map above looks at what happens when you blend all the colours from each country’s flag proportionally.

Somewhat surprisingly there is a relatively large variety of colours, given that red and blue so often appear on flags.

Below you can see what happens when you do the same thing for individual US state flags:

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Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: flags

Countries Whose Flags Contain Red and/or Blue

January 3, 2015 13 Comments

Countries whose flags have either red and/or blue in them

Map by reddit user PieJesu, edit by will_holmes

As we saw in a previous post, the vast majority of the world’s countries have at least some red in their flag. The next most popular colour is blue, with only a handful of countries having neither colour in their flag.

The following countries have neither red or blue, but do all have green:

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Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: flags

The Shade of Red Each Country Has On Its Flag

January 3, 2015 Leave a Comment

Shade of red on each country's flag

Map by reddit user xyuksr

The map above simply shows the shade of red that appears on each country’s flag, assuming of course it has red on it. The data comes from here, which shows that 148 out of 192 countries (77%) have some red in their flags.

The reddest flags are:

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Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: flags

Countries Where The Capital Is Not The Largest City

December 27, 2014 7 Comments

Countries Where The Capital Is Not The Largest City - learn more at https://brilliantmaps.com/capital-is-not-the-largest-city

Created by: Cherubia via wikimedia

The map above shows all countries whose capital was not their largest city, based on population, in 2010. This explains why South Sudan does not appear as a separate country, however if it did it would not be among the countries included (Juba is both the capital and largest city of South Sudan).

Here are a few of the more interesting facts about these countries and cities:

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Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: capitals, population

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