Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows what the English idiom, “It’s all Greek To Me” (something is completely unintelligible or impossible to understand) is in other European languages.
For example, in Greece it translates to: “It’s Chinese to me”. Other alternatives include Hebrew, Spanish Villages and railway stations?
See below for a list by language (from Omniglot the source for this map) including some that didn’t make it onto the map:
The map above was created by John F. Smith in 1888 and is an attempt to show the Historical Geography of the United States in 1888.
The copy of the map above comes from the Library of Congress and here’s what is written at the bottom:
Here’s a list of the various names in European and other languages:
Here’s the full list:
The map author explains:
The map above shows the total number of Jews living in the United States. Overall, the map creators estimate that there is a total Jewish population in the United States of 7,698,840 people.
And given that the total U.S. Population is 334,914,095 people, it means 2.3% of the total US population is Jewish.
Here is the data by state:
There are around 20 million people of Polish ancestry living outside Poland today, compared to Poland’s current population of around 38 million.
Here are some estimates by country (note estimates differ somewhat from the map above)
The two maps above show Europe’s beaver population in 1900 compared to 2021.
They both come from this wonderful video by Qarol Mapping:
This is just 5 years before the Berlin Conference in 1885 that would launch the so-called “Scramble for Africa,” of full European domination and conquest of the continent.
However, as you can clearly see in the map above European colonization was already well underway at this point.
You can see the comparison in the following simplified map:
The map above shows the number of Korean immigrants and/or people having Korean ancestry by country around the world.
Interestingly, there are more Koreans living in the United States than there are in either neighbouring China or Korea’s previous colonial ruler Japan.
As of 2023 there were an estimated 7,081,510 Koreans living abroad compared to 26.3 million living in North Korea and 51.4 million living in South Korea.
Here are the full stats by country (differs slight from the map above):