Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
I’ve lived in the UK for over 14 years and just learned that you can also call 112 in addition to 999 in an emergency.
Mind blown.
Moreover, I had no idea 112 was the most common emergency number in the world.
Here is the list by country:
*Note: the information presented here is believed to be correct, but make sure you double check the emergency number in your country before trying any of them listed here.
The lighthouse maps here of various countries around the world are all the brainchild of researchremora on Instagram aka terence on twitter.
I previously featured his Map of Great Britain & Ireland here.
But I wanted to share the rest as they are really brilliant. Also be sure to give them a follow.
Update 19 January 2025: On January 18, 2025, at 10:30 p.m. (ET), TikTok shut down its services in the United States due to a US bill banning the app nationwide that went into effect on January 19, 2025.
The map above shows which countries have and haven’t banned social network app TikTok so far as of 18 Jan 2025.
Here they are:
The map above was created by BusinessFinancing.co.uk and shows the oldest company still in business today in almost every country on earth.
They also have smaller versions for each continent which you can see below:
The map above, created by OnDeck, shows which countries are the most entrepreneurial in the world.
They did this by using LinkedIn’s data to discover the locations at home and all over the world that count the highest proportions of business founders per 10,000 workers.
Key Facts:
The map above is an interesting way to re-imagine the world, using river basins as the borders for countries. From the author:
The map above shows how democratic they feel their government and country to be.
The data comes from the Democracy Perception Index, and is not an objective measure of democracy but a subjective measure of how democratic they perceive their country as being.
Only about half the world (58%) says their country is democratic. Greece is considered the least democratic by its people (43%) out of all countries labeled as “free” democracies by Freedom House.
Most Democratic:
Least Democratic:
And here’s how important democracy is as being:
The map above and the maps below shows the oldest university in each country that is still operating today. It was created by Erudera, the world’s first education search engine backed by Artificial Intelligence.
Here are the top 10 oldest universities in the world by country, the year they were founded and where you can find them:
Ocean salinity refers to the concentration of dissolved salts in seawater, typically measured in parts per thousand (ppt) or practical salinity units (PSU). The average salinity of ocean water is between 34 and 36 ppt, meaning that for every 1,000 grams of seawater, between 34 and 36 grams are salt.
Here is an another map showing the same phenomenon:
This type of map is also sometimes referred as a world map from a fish’s point of view.
From the map: