The map above shows all the countries in the world that have won fewer Olympic medals than East Germany, who last competed at a games in 1988. In total, they won 519 medals across 5 Summer and 6 Winter Game appearances.

At just 16.4 million people at the time of reunification, East Germany has still won more medals than India (pop 1.47 Billion) in less than a third as many appearances.

In fact, only 14 countries have won more and are listed below along with a breakdown between summer and winter Olympic performances.

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The old saying goes that everything is bigger in Texas, but is it true?

Geographically, Texas is only the world’s 26th largest subdivision, which means there are 25 subdivisions which are bigger.

In fact it isn’t even in the biggest in the United States (that honour of course goes to Alaska).

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The following 18 biodiversity maps all come biodiversitymapping.org, with the help of BirdLife International, IUCN, NatureServe, and USGS.

Enjoy:

Number Of Amphibian Species In The World

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The map above shows you can quite easily split the world into 50% of GDP and 50% of population without

any overlapping countries. Here’s a full list of countries from each group:

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On January 14, 2026, the U.S. State Department, under President Donald Trump’s administration, announced it would indefinitely suspend processing of immigrant visas (permanent/residency visas) for citizens of 75 countries, effective January 21, 2026.

The map above shows which countries are affected. The Full list:

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The map above shows how many countries there are in each continent. The numbers may be slightly controversial due to the fact some countries span multiple continents (e.g. Russia, Tukrey, Egypt, France, etc.)

Here is the list used for the map:

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Map found on redditThe map above shows the first 10 countries to send one of its citizens into space. In total, 9 came from communist countries allied to the Soviet Union and so were all cosmonauts plus the United States with the lone astronaut.

More about them:

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The map above shows the share of world GDP for each continent in the world based on nominal exchange rates.

In total, World GDP was $117.165 Trillion $ USD. (Or $208 Trillion in PPP)

Below you can see data in PPP $ and maps and data based on UN Subregions.

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The map above shows the top 10 oil producing countries in 1939. Three big things stand out to me:

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