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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Map credit: OSDPAThe map above shows the timeline of the United States air strike against Iranian nuclear sites on June 22md 2025, known as Operation Midnight Hammer.

Timeline from the image:

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Map created by dailyexcitingmapsThe map above shows where you find the World’s top 4 religions and how many people would be a member of each if the world had only 100 people as found on 100people.org.

Here are some more facts:

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Map created by everythingaboutmapsThe map above shows which countries allow people to deny the Holocaust and which countries make Holocaust denial a crime.

The data comes from Wikipedia which you can see below:

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Map created by The Federation of American ScientistsThe map above shows the estimated number of per country in 2025 and how those numbers are changing over time.

From the article:

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