The 5 maps below are all examples of one country being separated from another by only 1 land border.

Norway & North Korea Are Separated By Just One Country

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The map above shows the Indonesian island of Java, which is by far the world’s most populous island. But why do so many people live there?

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Map created by jolearthThe map above shows all the world’s land border crossings and if you click into the interactive version you can see the following:

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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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