Brilliant Maps

Map created by @mmjukicThe map above displays total population change from 1990 to 2022 across various European and Arab countries.

The colors represent different rates of population growth or decline, with green shades indicating growth and red shades indicating decline.

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Map created by MapMasterThis map depicts Italy and parts of the western Balkans (referred to as Illyria) around the year 1084 AD, during the High Middle Ages. Here is an overview of the different regions, states, and entities shown on the map:

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Map created by reddit user JoeFalchetto

The map above shows how much each European country was spending on it’s military (in Billions of USD) annually in 2021, the year before the outbreak of the Ukraine war.

The data comes from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

To put those numbers in some perspective the US Department of Defense’s budget in that same year was $870 billion and has since risen to $880 billion in 2024.

Below I’ve looked at the numbers in constant 2022 USD$ (which is why they are slightly different to the map above) for 2021 and 2023 and compared how much they’ve changed. Unsparingly, Ukraine has seen the biggest increase of 800%+.

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Map created by reddit user naturalbornfoxThe two maps provide information about the most recent invasions of European countries, focusing on the dates of those invasions (top map) and which country carried them out (bottom map).

Here’s a breakdown of what each map shows:

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