Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows the 102 US counties that had a lower life expectancy in 2019 compared to North Korea’s.
According to the WHO North Korea’s life expectancy at birth was 72.6 years.
In that same year the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated that the following 102 counties had a lower life expectancy:
What’s shocking is how different the results are between states, for example all of Hawaii and most of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey all have life expectancies over 80.
The map above shows the three countries in the world that have elected a politician named Adolf Hitler.
The most famous is the Austrian born, German Chancellor and worst dictator in history who needs no introduction or comment.
His Namibian and India namesakes could not be more different.
The map above shows which countries have and have not eaten their Prime Minister at some point in their history. At this stage you may be wondering what?
The map above refers to the rather greusom death of Johan de Witt:
The map above shows which foreign country is closest depending on where you are in the United States.
The countries are:
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Australia is by far the highest at 76%.
Interestingly, this is marginally higher than the share of people in England & Wales who identified as White British (74.4%) at the last census. Although, it should be noted that the Australian number looks at people with any British ancestry, not exclusively British ancestry.
The map above shows the number of Highrise buildings as defined as being over 50 Meters (164 Feet) by US State. The data comes from skyscraperpage.com, but is from 2021, so might be somewhat out of date.
Amazingly, California has fewer than either Illinois, Florida or New York despite being by far the most populous state.
Using their more up-to-date data from 2024, here are all US cities with at least 1 Highrise building.
However, note they now define a Highreise as: “A highrise is a multi-floored building of at least 12 stories or 35 meters in height (115 feet).”
I’ve also calculated the number of Highrises per million people.
The map above created using Map Developers shows that you can find yourself in 36 different countries from just outside of Prague.
They are:
The video above was created by one of my favourite Youtubers mapsinanutshell and shows the The First World War from start to finish using Google Earth.
You can also watch the much more detailed version of it below: