Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
I’m a huge fan of Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones Map Men series.
You can watch their videos in chronological release order here on Youtube.
And buy a copy of their book: This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters) here.
But which of their videos is the most popular?
Below we rank them from least to least popular (based on view count) with a brief summary of each video:
The Short answer is because it stopped being mysterious once people realized there was nothing unusually dangerous about it.
Here’s an overview of the proposed “two-speed Europe” plan and the emerging E6 group, based on Reuters and related reporting.
I have 3 young kids so can only dream of sleeping in to 7:33am.
With a little digging I found that the times come 2015 study on 941,300 male and female Sleep Cycle app users.
Among other things it found that:
In any case here’s a ranking of countries by the number letters in their alphabet from lowest to highest:
Located in French Guiana it covers 33,900 square kilometres (13,090 sq mi) of land or 41% of land area of the territory.
This makes it the largest National Park not only in France (French Guiana is considered an overseas department of France and hence is also part of the EU), but the biggest in the entire European Union.
More about the park:
The map above shows how much of each European country is actually located in Europe.
For example Denmark is just 2% because of the size of Greenland. Similarly only 23% of Russia’s land is in Europe, despite the vast majority of each country’s population actually living in Europe.
Here is the ranked list from low to high:
All the maps on this page are the product of the wonderful GEO.Universe Instagram page, which you should totally follow.
Here are the 4 maps on their own:
The map above shows Ultra-processed food as a percentage of household purchases, from the journal Public Health Nutrition as reported in the Guardian in 2018..
Here are the full rankings: