Brilliant Maps

Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time

  • BOOK!
  • Newsletter
  • Board Games
  • Posters
  • Scratch Maps

Shocking Men Vs Women Differences In Years Of Education

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 5 Comments

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

men vs women in years of education

Map created by reddit user Fredd500

The map above reveals a somewhat shocking fact if you haven’t been paying attention. In the majority of the world’s countries (including virtually all of the richest) women, not men, stay in education longer.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: education, women

World War 1 Casualties As A Percentage of Pre-War Population

Last Updated: September 5, 2024 28 Comments

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

WW1 Casualties

Map created by reddit user lanson15

The map above reveals a rather shocking aspect of the First World War. While most people in Western Europe and North America focus on the trench warfare in Northern France and Belgium, it shows that Western European countries were nowhere close to suffering the worst casualty rates in the war.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: war

Where Tesla Supercharger Stations Could Replace Gas/Petrol Stations By 2016

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 1 Comment

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

Tesla Supercharge North America

Map of planned Tesla Supercharger stations in North America by the end of 2016. Sorry Saskatchewan.

Tesla Motors has quietly been creating a giant network of Supercharger stations that can quickly extend the range of their best selling Model S electric car. Here are a few maps showing how big that network could grow to by the end of next year.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: cars

Blood Borders: A Proposal To Redraw A “New Middle East”

Last Updated: March 9, 2026 59 Comments

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

Blood borders New middle east

Map created by Ralph Peters and originally published in the Armed Forces Journal, via wikimedia

The map above is a 2006 proposed plan to redrawn the borders of the Middle East by Ralph Peters, a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel, author, and Fox News commentator.

It was original published in the Armed Forces journal in an article titled Blood borders: How a better Middle East would look.

The map would make sweeping changes throughout the region such as:

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Middle East Tagged With: borders

Fastest Growing Religion In Each Country Around The World

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 40 Comments

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

fastest growing religions round the world

Map created by reddit user KaliKwad

The map above shows which religion is the fastest growing in each country around the world based on data from Pew Research Center’s The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050.

The colours are as follows:

[Read more…]

Filed Under: World Maps Tagged With: religion

The State Of The Kurds

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 14 Comments

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

Kurdish inhabited areas

Map of Kurdish inhabited areas by the Council On Foreign Relations. Interactive version below.

The map above shows the parts of the Middle East with Kurdish populations and which could make up some or all of a future state of Kurdistan. In a recent article titled The Time of the Kurds, the Council on Foreign Relations explains that:

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Middle East Tagged With: kurds

Most Common Country of Origin of New Immigrants To The United States

Last Updated: January 26, 2026 2 Comments

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

most-common-country-immigrants-US

Map crated by Giorgio Cavaggion

Inspired by Ben Blatt’s What are the biggest immigrant groups in your state?, Giorgio Cavaggion created two flag maps of the most common country of origin of new legal immigrants to the United States.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: United States Tagged With: immigration

What Does London Smell Like? These Maps Have The Answer

Last Updated: December 12, 2023 2 Comments

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

london_nature_emissions_segments_v2

Map of London’s smells from nature and emissions

Smelly Maps: The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes is the amazing title of this series of maps that look at how London smells. The smelly maps project involves Daniele Quercia, Rossano Schifanella (University of Torino), Luca Maria Aiello (Yahoo Labs) and Kate McLean (Royal College of Art).

[Read more…]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: smell

Most Common Foreign Citizenship In Each German District

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 2 Comments

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

German foreign citizenship

Map created by reddit user Szwab

The map above shows the country of citizenship for the largest group of foreigners by German district. However, it doesn’t show the absolute or even relative numbers. So even districts with very few foriegners will still have one group that’s the largest.

In total, Germany had 6,180,013 people with non-German citizenship living there in 2011, according to zensus2011.de.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Germany Tagged With: immigration

How New Yorkers See The World: View of the World from 9th Avenue

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 3 Comments

Click To Get My 10 Best Brilliant Maps For Free:

View of the world from 9th ave

Map created by Saul Steinberg on behalf of the The New Yorker

View of the World from 9th Avenue is a classic map/illustration showing how New Yorkers see the rest of the world. Designed by Saul Steinberg, it was first published as the cover for the March 29, 1976, edition of The New Yorker.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Fictional Tagged With: humour

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 142
  • 143
  • 144
  • 145
  • 146
  • …
  • 152
  • Next Page »


Product Reviews · World Atlas · Settlers of Catan · Risk · Game of Thrones · Coloring Books
Globes · Monopoly · Star Wars · Game of Life · Pandemic · Ticket To Ride · Drinks Cabinets
US Locations · UK Locations· Fleet Management
Copyright © 2026 · Privacy Policy · Fair Use, Attribution & Copyright · Contact Us
Follow Us: Newsletter · Facebook · Youtube · Twitter · Threads · BlueSky · LinkedIn · Instagram · Pinterest · Flipboard