Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows how Google Maps is now labelling the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) depending on where you live.
If you live in the United States, it’s now just the Gulf of America.
If you live in the UK it’s how written how I’ve written this post, Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).
And finally if you’re in Mexico it’s still just the Gulf of Mexico.
You can see maps for each below:
The map above shows the Diomede Islands where the distance between the Russia on Big Diomede Island and The United States on Little Diomede Island is just over 2 miles.
They are also on opposite sides of the International Date line, although the Russian side is just 21 hours ahead of the United States rather than 24 because of how they’ve chosen to adopt Time Zones.
But this does mean when it’s 1am on Monday morning on the Russian side, it’s just 4am Sunday morning on the American side.
More about the islands.
The map above shows an unintuitive geographical fact.
If you’re in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and want to visit Detroit on the US side of the border, you head north rather than south as you’d expect.
The video above is a sped up version of the following video showing the The Reconquista: Every Year.
The video above shows the rise and now fall of Japan’s population by prefecture between 1920 and 2020. Japan’s population today is still 125% higher than it was a century ago, but as is well known has started to decline in recent years.
The maps and video are all the work of Wikimedia users Monaneko and Pekachu.
Here are the numbers:
Here’s more on their methodology:
It’s based on data collected by tech site Comparitech.
Here were their criteria
Here’s how they defined a ban:
For more please see the following:
There are 9 zones which cover: