Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows which countries currently have IKEA stores, which countries have IKEA stores under construction and which countries used to have stores but no longer do (Russia).
In total, there are currently 473 IKEA stores operating in 63 countries and 5 territories. And this is where they are:
The map above shows which countries have fully legalized same sex-marriage as of 1 October 2024, but does not show those that have alternative arrangements such as civil unions and/or domestic partnerships.
Same sex marriage is legal in 38 countries which have a combined population of 1.5 billion people (around 20% of the world’s population).
Here is a full list by year:
All of these stunning elevation maps of the world’s continents (except Australia and Antarctica) are the brain child of cstats1 who you can follow on X/Twitter here and Instagram here.
And if you’d like to support them you buy something from their Amazon shop here.
The first map above is an elevation map of Europe. Here are the highest and lowest points in Europe:
The map above shows the flags in use of each country back in 1988. The most notable differences from today are the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia still being unified countries and East and West Germany still being divided.
The map above is the AuthaGraph world map by Designer Hajime Narukawa.
And it is viewed by some as being “almost perfectly-proportioned.”
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.
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