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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The map above and the videos below show the slow and steady progress of the women’s rights movements over three hundred years.

They are all the work of The Borys on Youtube.

Below you can watch the original video as well as sped up one, followed by a full explanation.

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Map created by reddit user shellerikThe map above shows the route of Emirates flight EK225, Dubai to San Francisco. shellerik decided to make the map because “I found it interesting because it flew right over my house and I live in Washington state.”

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The map above comes from Mark Ovenden’s brilliant book: Transit Maps of the World: Expanded and Updated Edition of the World’s First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth.

And it shows the world connected via London tube style transit map.

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How much wealthier are US Billionaires compared to European ones? Which country has the most billionaires per capita? How much wealth do billionaires hold?

Well these maps will look to answer those questions and many more.

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The map above is Francis Galton’s earliest known isochronic map, published in 1881 for the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, illustrates travel times from London, United Kingdom, to various parts of the world, measured in days.

The map assumes favorable travel conditions, prearranged land transport, and the use of contemporary travel methods within a reasonable cost.

From the map itself:

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Map created by StatistaThe map above shows a simplified map of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade including the total number of people enslaved and their destination country. (Based on modern borders).

The underlying data comes from Slave Voyages, which has more detailed maps, from the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade a couple of which you can see below:

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