Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows what the French call the “Gulf of America”. To them it’s still just: “Le Golfe du Mexique.”
On January 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America within U.S. federal documents and communications.
The map above comes from the cover of Daniel Immerwahr’s best selling book: How To Hide An Empire: A History of the Greater United States.
Out of curiosity I decided to look at the size of the various territories mentioned on the cover relative to the size of the 48 contiguous United States.
The two maps here are the work of @hdk_maps.
The map above shows the number of Alpacas per US county.
Top 10 Counties:
All the three horse related maps here are the work of @hdk_maps.
The map above shows The number of horses per capita in the United States.
All the maps here are the work of Josh Katz.
The first 9 are from his book Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: a Visual Guide and the rest are from his earlier work as a PhD student in statistics at North Carolina State University.
Located halfway between Baja California and Hawaii, it serves as a winter and spring habitat for great white sharks.
Here’s the list of countries for each:
This map solves that.
From the author:
In 1947 the term Soda, Pop and Coke (which confusingly refers to all soft drinks, not just Coca Cola) were all fairly even distributed in the United States.
Ryan who runs Starkey Comics and created the map says: