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Canadian Provinces & Territories Replaced With US States & Territories With A Similar Population

Last Updated: January 23, 2025 1 Comment

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Canadian Provinces & Territories Replaced With US States & Territories With A Similar Population

Map created by reddit user enigbert
The map above shows the US states and territories with the closest population to Canada’s various provinces and territories.

Looking at the map you can see why Trump wants Canada, who wouldn’t want a second Alabama or New Jersey?

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Filed Under: Canada

Percentage (%) of UK Adults Who Have a Positive Opinion About Various Countries

Last Updated: January 22, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Percentage (%) of UK Adults Who Have a Positive Opinions About Various Countries

The map above is based off of a Q4 2024 Yougov Survey asking British adults if they’d ever heard of the country and if they had, whether or not they had a positive opinion about it.

Now just because a country has a positive low score doesn’t necessarily mean British adults dislike a country, but could simply mean they have no opinion about it one way or another.

Personally, I don’t have strong views on Palau, Comoros or Nauru.

You can see the full survey results below.

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Filed Under: World Maps

Number Of Times Each State Has Been Admitted Into The United States

Last Updated: January 22, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Number Of Times Each State Has Been Admitted Into The United States

Map created by reddit user EpicAura99
The map above shows an interesting bit of American history.

Those who have no idea its history, could reasonably assume that each state has only been admitted once to the United States.

Of course once you remember the Civil War, you realise that all the Confederate states had to be admitted a second time after the defeat of the Confederacy by the Union.

But what then of Georgia?

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Filed Under: United States

What The French Call The “Gulf of America”

Last Updated: January 22, 2025 4 Comments

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What The French Call The Gulf of America - Le Golfe du Mexique

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.

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Filed Under: United States

Map of How To Hide An Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Last Updated: January 22, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Map of How To Hide An Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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.

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Filed Under: United States

Alpaca Population By US County

Last Updated: January 22, 2025 1 Comment

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Alpaca Population By US County

The two maps here are the work of @hdk_maps.

The map above shows the number of Alpacas per US county.

Top 10 Counties:

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3 Maps Showing The Distribution of Horses in the US

Last Updated: January 22, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Map of Horses per capita in the United States

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.

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Filed Under: United States

26 Linguistic Maps That Divide Americans

Last Updated: November 28, 2025 5 Comments

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Fireflies vs Lightning Bugs

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.

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Filed Under: United States

Avoid This Bit Of The Pacific If You Have A Fear Of Sharks aka The White Shark Café

Last Updated: January 21, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Avoid This Bit Of The Pacific If You Have A Fear Of Sharks: White Shark Café

Map created by Obtund
The map above shows a remote mid-Pacific Ocean region which has become known as the White Shark Café.

Located halfway between Baja California and Hawaii, it serves as a winter and spring habitat for great white sharks.

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The Second Biggest Religion in European & Neighbouring Countries

Last Updated: January 20, 2025 Leave a Comment

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The Second Biggest Religion in European Countries

Map created by reddit user Few_Introduction9919
The map above shows the second largest religion in various European countries, and excludes people who are atheist, agnostic, have no specific belief, etc. (for that map see below).

Here’s the list of countries for each:

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Filed Under: Europe

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