Map created by DizzyDentist22The map above shows which country each country considered it’s biggest threat. Each the biggest threat for most European countries is viewed as Russia, but for the US it’s China and for Canada and Mexico its the US.

From the map’s author:

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The short video above shows the full effect of XKCD 1335 Now, which constantly updates to show you what time it is in the world where you are.

It has obviously been accelerated to show a full day’s spin in a few seconds. The actual comic completes one revolution per day.

Hidden text: This image stays roughly in sync with the day (assuming the Earth continues spinning). Shortcut: xkcd.com/now

More about it below with the help of Explain XKCD:

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Map created by reddit user OppositeRock4217The map above shows which countries had more deaths than births in 2024. Note countries populations can still grow via immigration.

The author also states that:

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The map above is designed as a fun thought experiment: “If you were to randomly be born again, into one of these colored regions, which one would you choose?”

You can interpret exactly what that means yourself, but the way I think about it is that you have an equal chance of being born into each country of a given color.

For example if you picked Yellow, you might be randomly reborn in the United States or China or equally Afghanistan or Iraq.

Of course you could also look at it based on population or area.

Here’s a list of countries for each color:

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Data source: Xinyi Liu; Animation by Javier Ventura/Washington University

The map above shows how four of the world’s most important domesticated cereals spread across Europe, Asia and Africa between 7,000 and 3,500 years ago.

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The map above shows which countries are richer or poorer than the US based on GDP per capita in PPP $ dollars.

PPP $ account for the local cost of goods and services in a country rather than official exchange rates. The data comes from the IMF and is for 2025.

Below is a list both using $PPP and official exchange rates.

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The map above shows which countries are richer and which are poorer than Kazakhstan’s GDP per capita of $44,446 in PPP $ dollars.

PPP $ dollars measure how far your money goes in a given country rather than official exchange rates.

Here is a list of all countries richer than Kazakhstan based on that measure:

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The map above shows the world’s 19 countries with a nominal GDP of over $1 trillion USD including the 13 subnational states/provinces that also have a GDP over that amount in order they are:

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Map created by reddit user diplomats_sonThe map above shows an interesting phenomenon, on the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere (Summer Solstice; 21 June) the sun sets later in Ireland, Scotland and even much of Scandinavia than it does in Eastern Brazil.

And actually, the phenomenon is not limited to the longest day of the year but the weeks leading up it and the weeks after (the map above is actually from June 28th).

Here’s why:

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