Map created by reddit user Toki_SztojkaThe map above shows countries mentioned and/or alluded to in the Hungarian national anthem, “Himnusz“, written by Ferenc Kölcsey in 1823.

Here’s a summary of the countries mentioned:

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Map found on redditThe map above shows all the places named Santa Cruz (Spanish), Sainte Croix (French) and Santa Croce (Italian). In English these just mean Holy Cross.

It’s interesting to see how much more successful the Spanish were at putting their names on things compared to the French who were in turn much more successful than the Italians.

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Map created by Peter AtwoodThe map above shows the routes taken by 5 of the Great European trading companies between 1740 and 1855. Here’s a little bit more about each of them:

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Map created using iipmaps.com for India In PixelsThe map above shows the nationality of everyone who’s climbed Mount Everest between 1953 and 2023. Unsurprisingly, Nepalese climbers are way out in front at 1,856 more than double the US in second place.

In total, there are records of 6,664 different people who have climber Mount Everest according to the The Himalayan Database.

Here’s a list of the nationality of everyone who’s climbed as of 2023:

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Map created by AconexOfficial

The map above shows the annual average temperature of each country on earth based over its entire land area. This means it can be somewhat misleading.

For example, Canada’s average annual temperature is a chilly −4.03 °C (24.75 °F), but the average for its biggest city, Toronto, is 8.3°C (46.9 °F).

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Map created Oxford University’s The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project

The map shows where hoards of Roman Coins have been found around the world.

To date, their database has records of 6,057,413 coins in 15,201 validated hoards, and an additional 896,032 coins recorded in 2,964 unofficial hoards.

And quite frankly it’s shocking how far the coins have travelled.

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Map created by USAFactsThe map above shows where the over 168,000 active-duty US troops serving overseas are stationed. And I bet some of the countries will come as a bit of a surprise:

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The map above was created by NASA and shows the the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Blooms in the Northern compared to Southern Hemisphere. Apparently, the cleanest air in the world can be found in North-West Tasmania (Cape Grim), the most polluted air in the world can be found in Ahmedabad, India.

It comes from this video:

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Map found on redditThe map above shows the really weird distorting effect the Mercator Projection has on maps. On a Mercator map the north of Greenland looks much farther away than West Africa, but in fact they are each just under 5,000km from Paris.

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The map above shows the wettest month of the year and the one below shows the driest month of the year for various regions around the world.

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