Wikipedia has a much more complete list which you can see below:
How The American Electoral College Would Look If It Was Used In Europe
Under it, each state has at least 3 electoral college votes representing 1 congressperson, and 2 Senators.
The Electoral College is then tasked with electing the president every 4 years.
In our European example above the Vatican each vote would represent just 255 people whereas in Russia each vote would represent over 2 million people!
Micro states like Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Liechtenstein would also get 3 each the same as somewhere like Iceland with as much as 10X the population.
So here’s how the numbers work out for Europe as a whole (and someone has also done the work for if only the EU was included).
Top 10 Countries With The Most Islands
The map above shows the top 10 countries with the most islands. Sweden claims to have the most islands at 267,570 but only 984 of them are inhabited.
The data comes from WorldPopulationReview.com and you can see the list below:
Countries That Have Been A Setting In One of Shakespeare’s Plays
The data used for the map comes from this List of settings for Shakespeare’s plays which was compiled by Laura Estill.
The full list is below:
Which European Country Has The Most Metals Bands Per Person?
The data comes from the Encyclopaedia Metallum for 2023.
Which Is More Popular: Tesla Or The Ford F-150?
The map above shows which has more searches Tesla or the Ford F-150.
It’s based on Google Trends data for the last 12 months.
Now, you may think it’s a bit unfair to compare searches for all of Tesla’s cars with searches for just the F-150, and you’d be right.
However, the sales figures between them are probably smaller than you might think.
The Racoon Invasion Of Germany
As of 2024, it was estimated that there were over 2 million racoons in the country, but the government is seeking to euthanized them.
Until coming across this map I had no idea that racoons could be found anywhere in Europe, let alone in such big numbers.
So how did they get here?
Biggest Soviet Cities in 1989 & How They’ve Grown or Shrunk Since
The map above shows the 296 largest Soviet cities with a population of over 100,000 people in 1989.
The 23 largest with over 1 million people are named on the map.
The map above and the one below are both the work of Sasha Trubetskoy, one of my favourite map makers. He explained why made the map:
When I was looking for the Soviet Union’s largest cities, I couldn’t find any good list, let alone a map. Strange, I thought, considering that Russian Wikipedia seems to have incredibly detailed records of every Soviet city’s population.
And yet, nobody had collected them in one place.
I managed to find a report titled Статистика для всех (“Statistics For Everyone”) that summarizes the results of the 1989 Soviet Union Census.
Inside it was a list of cities, which amazingly enough was digitized so I could just copy and paste the data into a spreadsheet.
After some cleaning, some geocoding (God bless Nominatim), and some head-scratching with python’s Basemap, I came up with these maps. The text was added later using Adobe Illustrator, because Matplotlib’s text features are very frustrating.
Below you can see how these cities did in terms of growth and decline up until 2016:
Long Island Stereotypes According To Urban Dictionary
Animated Map Of The Breakup of Yugoslavia 1989 – 2008
The animated map above shows the breakup of Yugoslavia from 1989 until 2008. You can find out more about the states mentioned in the video below:
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