Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The old saying goes that everything is bigger in Texas, but is it true?
Geographically, Texas is only the world’s 26th largest subdivision, which means there are 25 subdivisions which are bigger.
In fact it isn’t even in the biggest in the United States (that honour of course goes to Alaska).
The map above shows which African countries have participated in which international sporting tournaments.
Here is a list by sport:
The map above shows the number of times each country’s name appears in the Epstein files. I had an idea to do a similar map, but then I saw that reddit user Extreme-Shopping74 had beat me to.
Here are a few key things from the map:
The map above compares non-inflation adjusted house prices by state in 2000 vs House prices in December 2025 according to Zillow’s All Home Index.
In 2000, not a single state had average home prices above $200k, the closest was Massachusetts at $192,616.
However, by 2026 only 2 states had average home prices below $200k: Mississippi and West Virginia.
Here’s the data below, including raw numbers, inflation adjusted numbers and 2026 numbers:
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: