Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows which perfecters are losing people the fastest in Japan.
46 of 47 Japanese Prefectures experienced population decline in 2023, of which 15 experienced a grater than 1% drop.
Tokyo was the sole prefecture to see population increase, due in part to increasing immigration numbers.
Here are the numbers by prefecture:
The map above looks at US median home prices in each US county.
The data is from Q1 2024 and comes from the National Association of Realtors.
As a resident of London, one of the world’s most expensive cities, I find it fascinating.
The Caprivi Strip, also known as the Zambezi Region, is a narrow protrusion of Namibia that extends eastward from the main body of the country.
It stretches approximately 450 km (280 miles) between Botswana to the south, Angola and Zambia to the north, and almost (but not quite) Zimbabwe to the east (see below).
The map above shows all the English counties that end in Shire. In alphabetical order they are:
The map above shows where people in the US get the most speeding tickets relative to population density. Here is a little bit more about the data:
This cave is notable for being one of the deepest known caves in the world.
Here are the key points from the map:
Nevertheless, many Mongolians have left Mongolia to search for opportunities elsewhere and here’s where they go:
It’s one of the most interesting groups in the world as 50-80 million people worldwide claim some sort of Irish ancestry.
Yet the island of Ireland (Republic + Northern Ireland) only has a population of around 7 million, meaning there is around a 10:1 ratio of Irish living outside of Ireland as on it.
Here are the estimated numbers by country:
