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The map above shows how big the biggest stadium is by capacity by country. Below we look at some of the stats around these stadiums.

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The Empresa de China or China enterprise, was Spain’s totally bonkers plan to conquer China in 1588. Needless to say it didn’t work out, but here’s what the plan involved.

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Map created by SurfsharkThe map above comes from VPN provider Surfshark. It looks at which countries have some form of restrictions on VPN use specifically and not general internet censorship.

Here’s more on their methodology:

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Map created by comparitechThe map above shows which countries censor the internet the most and which ones have the fewest controls.

It’s based on data collected by tech site Comparitech.

Here were their criteria

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Map created by Maximilian DörrbeckerThe map above shows all of the world’s international telephone country codes from 1 to 998, grouping them by the first digit.

There are 9 zones which cover:

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Map created by MapsinterludeThe map above shows the 48 countries (49 if you count the USSR) whose citizens have been to space.

However, only the United States (both via NASA and private businesses), Russia and China currently have the ability to send people into space.

And here’s another interesting fact:

People trained for spaceflight are called astronauts (American or other), cosmonauts (Russian), or taikonauts (Chinese); and non-professionals are referred to as spaceflight participants or spacefarers.

Below is the full list of when each country had their first citizen sent into space. You can also see a List of space travelers by nationality here.

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Map created by maven.mapping and the.world.in.mapsThe map above shows some of the theoretically safest places in the world if World War 3 were to happen.

From the map authors:

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Map created by heliosmapsThe map above shows the pirate attack hotspots during the golden age of piracy between the the 1650s and the 1730s.

More about it and the hotspots below:

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Map created by India.In.PixelsThe map above shows the relative interest in Sun Tanning vs Skin Whitening by country based on Google Trends data. However, it should be noted that the data used in the map only goes up to 2020.

I’ll look into more recent numbers below, but first a full explanation of the original map:

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Map created by @everythingaboutmapsThe map above shows the top 10 countries by global miliary spending in 2023 in $ billions of USD.

From the map’s author:

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