Map created by mindofahitchhiker.com

The map above shows where in the world you can and can’t flush your toilet paper in a toilet. The data comes from Where do I put the paper? which describes itself as A handy guide to the world’s toilets.

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Map Created by Euromonitor International

The map above shows the estimated incremental value growth in the tissue and hygiene industry between 2013 and 2018. This includes toilet paper,
Sanitary Protection, nappies/diapers/pants and incontinence products.

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Map created by reddit user GalXE106The map above shows how big the Roman and Mongol Empires were at their respective peaks. The Mongols had the world’s largest contiguous land based Empire in history (and the second largest overall after the British), but just how much bigger was it than Rome?

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Map created by reddit user Rift3N

The map above shows a rather surprising fact, the US (population: 327 million) has roughly the same number of murders as all the countries in red combined (total population: over 2.3 billion): 17,250 vs 17,324.

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Map crated by Bibi Saint-Pol via Wikimedia

The map above is a modern depiction of ancient Greek historian Herodotus’ view of the Ecumene (or oecumene), literally the the known or the inhabited world, in the 5th Century BC.

And while obviously far from fully accurate it clearly shows Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Map created by Engaging Data using Leaflet

The map above shows the world being build one country at time starting with Greenland (0.03 people per square KM) all the way to up to Bangladesh (1,251 people per square KM). And while, it’s really neat it’s not 100% complete.

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Map created by reddit user neilrkaye

The map above shows the range of global temperatures at different latitudes in 11 year windows starting in 1948-1958 ending in 2008-2018.

Anything to the left of the black line is cooler than the 1961-1990 average at that latitude and anything to the right is warmer.

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Map created using Google Maps

The map above potentially shows one of the world’s longest uninterrupted walks from Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia a distance of 22,387km (13,910 miles).

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Map created by Rean MonfilsThe map above shows many (but not all of) of the ships sunk during World War 2. The map was created by Rean Monfils and combines the Geographic Information System (GIS) database of Asian Pacific shipwrecks with the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean (AMIO) WWII shipwreck database.

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Map found via reddit, click for larger versionWhile it’s well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly by how much. Countries close to the equator barely change, whereas countries further north shrink dramatically.

The maps are all the work of climate data scientist @neilrkaye.

You can see an animation below:

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