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What Countries Celebrate Halloween?

Last Updated: October 30, 2025 1 Comment

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What Countries Celebrate Halloween? Map

The map above shows which countries celebrate Halloween. Besides the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland also have fairly widespread celebrations.

Other countries such as Mexico celebrate somewhat similar things such as Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) around the same time.

The data for the map above and the table below come from World Population Review.

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Europe vs Nigeria Births & Overall Population

Last Updated: January 20, 2026 Leave a Comment

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Europe vs Nigeria Births & Overall Population

The map above shows the number of births per year in Nigeria vs Europe in 2023 according to Our World In Data.

In that year Europe (including all of Russia) recorded 6.3 million births vs Nigeria with 7.5 million.

Below we look at births and overall population trends from 1900 to 2100. (Note data up to 2023 is historically accurate, while that from 2024 to 2100 is the UN’s medium population estimate).

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Filed Under: World Maps

Are You Closer To The Sea or Outer Space? Explained!

Last Updated: October 30, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Are You Closer To The Sea or Outer Space?

Map created by reddit user Many-Excitement3246
The map above provides a rather suprising geographic comparison: whether any given point on Earth’s land surface is closer to outer space or closer to the sea.?

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Share Of Households Participating in SNAP (Food Stamps) By U.S. Congressional House District

Last Updated: October 28, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Map Showing Share Of Households Participating in SNAP By U.S. Congressional House District

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The map above shows the share of households in a given congressional district that receive SNAP (aka food stamps) payments. The data comes from the USDA for 2023 here and here it is below:

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Filed Under: United States

South North America vs North South America

Last Updated: October 27, 2025 Leave a Comment

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South North America vs North South America

The map above is just a friendly reminder that South North America is different from North South America. Here’s a little bit more about each:

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Filed Under: Americas

I’ve Been To Canada

Last Updated: January 21, 2026 2 Comments

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I've Been To Canada Before

The joke is that while Canada is the second-largest country in the world, most tourists only ever visit a few small, well-known spots,  so their “I’ve been to Canada” really means “I’ve been to one of like four cities.”

The vast rest of the country (which is huge) gets completely ignored.

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Map Of The 18,000 Asteroids In The Solar System

Last Updated: October 13, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Map Of The 18,000 Astroids In The Solar System

Map created by EleanorLutz
The map above shows the orbital paths of about 18,000 asteroids, comets, and planets in the solar system, everything larger than 10km in diameter is included.

More about them:

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Simplified History of The 4 Countries Of The British & Irish Isles

Last Updated: October 13, 2025 3 Comments

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Simplified History of The 4 Countries Of The British & Irish Isles

Chart made by Dank · Jay
The map chart above shows the history of each of the nations (or countries) found on the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. (also see: England vs Great Britain vs United Kingdom Explained).

Here is more about all of them:

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Filed Under: United Kingdom

Ireland 1841 vs 2021

Last Updated: October 13, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Ireland 1841 vs 2021

The map above looks at the change in demographics on the island of Ireland in 1841 (just before the Great potatoes famine) and 2021/22 the date of the last censuses for the two parts of the island today.

In 1841 the island was firmly part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Today the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom).

More about the comparison below:

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Filed Under: Ireland, United Kingdom

Language Map of Belgium With Major Cities

Last Updated: October 11, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Language Map of Belgium With Major Cities

Map created by geo.universe
The map above shows the linguistic division of Belgium between Dutch (Flemish), French (Walloons) and German speakers in Belgium with the major cities of each group.

More about the situation below:

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Filed Under: Belgium

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