
The map above shows how many cities above a million people each country has. Is suspect it comes from this list on Wikipedia, but is now slightly out of date.
Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
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The map above shows how many cities above a million people each country has. Is suspect it comes from this list on Wikipedia, but is now slightly out of date.
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Yellow: More common for the piece to be captured there.
Purple: Less common.
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Here’s desfirsit explaining what he did:
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However, when looking through I did spot a few errors.
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And as noted by Jakub:
Please note that when there are two forms of a name that differ only by the inclusion of the word “language”, the map shows the more common variant. For example, Polish is called either język polski or polszczyzna, but the former variant is significantly more common than the latter one, so it is the one shown in the map.
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The two maps here are poke fun at the idea of how both Americans and Europeans feel about travelling to each other’s countries.
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The map above and below are both the work of Alex McPhee, aka Pronghorn maps.
And you can buy both of them on his website here.
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Below is my purely subjective list of the 17 oddest and weirdest shaped countries in world and why they are the shaped the way they are.
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The video above shows the growth, then decline and finally the revival of passenger railways in Great Britain over 196 years, from 1825 to 2022.
Below you can see a full list of stations, including the date they opened, whether or not they are still open today and if not when they closed and finally their geographic co-ordinates.