Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows the global change in world population between 1500 and 1600AD. Overall, world population increased by 13 million people (+3%) from 503 million to 516 million people. However, where those people lived radically changed.
The data comes from the HYDE database, which you learn more about from this post.
Here’s why:
It shows long-term “normal” precipitation totals, measured in inches per year.
More about it:
This meme is a satirical commentary on how Western media (mainly in North America and Western Europe) is perceived to respond unevenly to tragedies around the world.
Here’s what the map and colours mean:
The map above comes from bustimes.org (click for interactive map) and shows the different colours of buses across the UK and Ireland.
Heres’ why:
The map above shows the location of Oklahoma which at one point was part of the Republic of Texas, before Texas joined the United States in 1845.
The story of the Oklahoma Panhandle, that narrow, rectangular strip of land at the state’s far west, is one of the quirkiest tales in American geography.
Its evolution from being part of Texas, to becoming “No Man’s Land,” and finally part of Oklahoma involves a mix of statehood law, slavery politics, and settlement patterns.
Here’s how it happened:
See this map:
Here’s the story behind the two Kansas Cities: one in Kansas and the bigger, older one in Missouri:
The map above shows a very rough estimate of the population of each continent in 10,000 BC.
The numbers come form Our World In Data, which uses HYDE version 3.3.
Here is list of estimated populations for people living within the borders of modern day states in 10,000 BC.
The above is a fun where would you choose to live scenario. Here’s a bit more about each choice:
The map above makes a rather interesting comparison that between how much territory has been lost in Ukraine War from January 2024 to November 2025, compared to that lost on the Western Front In WW1 from January 1915 to November 1916.
More about the map below:
