Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
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.
The two maps here are poke fun at the idea of how both Americans and Europeans feel about travelling to each other’s countries.
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.
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.
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.
The map above shows which countries remain richer per person than China in 2020 and which China has overtaken since 1950.
In 1950, China’s GDP per capita in inflation adjusted terms was just $799 per person, making it the 20th lowest in the world.
By 2020 this had risen to $17,226 per person, which still only places it 67th in the world. Here’s how that change looked like over 70 years:
It comes from this article: A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations.
Here are the key things to know:
In total there were 3,422,959 farm raised ducks living in the United States that year.
Here’s the data by state and county:
