Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above comes from diamond geezer’s wonderful post about the busiest national rail stations. Amazingly the top 12 stations in the UK are all in London, and most of them are on the central section of the Elizabeth Line.
The reason is quite simple: “Any interchange between tube and Crossrail [Elizabeth Line] counts as entering or exiting a National Rail station so some mighty distortions are skewing the numbers.”
Full list of all UK stations below with rankings (data comes from ORR here):
That small strip of land in north-eastern Afghanistan that separates Pakistan from Tajikistan is called the Wakhan Corridor.
More about it below:
The poster above titled: EQUAL RIGHTS FOR NEGROES !EVERYWHERE!, SELF DETERMINATION for the BLACK BELT, VOTE COMMUNIST was for the 1932 US election.
Ford who was running as Vice President, was the first African American in history to be included on a presidential ticket.
More about the election:
The map above was created by the Center for Eurasian Strategic Intelligence to warn of about growing Russian influence in Europe.
However, the as reddit user adawkin explains:
Here they are grouped together, with an explainer where not obvious (hint it’s almost always where the capital is located).
I love the attempt at this and after looking into, it’s actually quite difficult.
That said, I’ve also put countries in bold where I dispute the claim:
The timelapse map above shows the location and result of every battle in World in World History up to 2019 as recoded in Wikipedia. Cottereau explains that:
The map above shows the 100th Meridian West as it passes through Canada.
And the reason only Canadians will be able to hear it, is that it’s among the Tragically Hip’s most famous songs.
The Hip are relatively unique among Canadian bands in that they became extremely popular in Canada without any corresponding success in the United States or other countries around the world. This article from the BBC does a good job of summing up their success from an outsiders perspective.
Oh and you can listen to the song below:
The map above shows the largest Hispanic/Latino ancestry by US county based on data from the US Census.
Given its size and geographic proximity to the US, it should be no surprise that Mexicans make up by far the largest group (over 60% of Hispanic / Latinos).
However, what may be surprising is that just 29% of people with Mexican ancestry were born abroad, the vast majority were actually born in the United States.
Here are the native/foreign born split of other groups:
