Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
On January 14, 2026, the U.S. State Department, under President Donald Trump’s administration, announced it would indefinitely suspend processing of immigrant visas (permanent/residency visas) for citizens of 75 countries, effective January 21, 2026.
The map above shows which countries are affected. The Full list:
The inspiration for these maps comes from Donald Trump’s repeated stated desire to make Canada a part of the United States.
Yet, a poll from 2024 showed 82% of Canadians oppose any such the plan!
And that was before the whole boycott US movement and elbows up campaigns got going.
Moreover, before continuing I will state I’m a proud Canadian who has zero interest in seeing the US annex Canada.
However, I’m sure that doesn’t matter to Trump or his MAGA supporters.
At this stage you’ve no doubt seen the meme that Trump only wants Greenland because of how much bigger it looks using the Mercator Projection:
The map above shows the estimated number of Venezuelan’s living in other countries around the world. The table below gives an estimate by country:
From the author of the map:
The short video above shows Jason Girouard’s amazing run around all of Manhattan’s Streets. You can read the full story here, and here’s the main details:
More about them:
The map above shows the share of world GDP for each continent in the world based on nominal exchange rates.
In total, World GDP was $117.165 Trillion $ USD. (Or $208 Trillion in PPP)
Below you can see data in PPP $ and maps and data based on UN Subregions.
