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How Much Sugar Is In Fanta In Each European Country

Last Updated: January 14, 2025 1 Comment

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fanta sugar

Map found on reddit
This map illustrates the amount of sugar in 100 ml of Fanta Orange across different European countries. The map uses three color codes to indicate the sugar content:

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Filed Under: Europe

British Diaspora: Absolute Numbers & Share Of The Population

Last Updated: March 14, 2025 1 Comment

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British Diaspora by Share of The Population

Map found on reddit
The map above shows the share of people in various countries that claim to have some sort of British heritage e.g. English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, Cornish, Manx and Channel Islands.

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.

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Filed Under: United Kingdom, World Maps

States by Number of Highrise Buildings Over 50 Meters (164 Feet) Tall

Last Updated: August 22, 2024 2 Comments

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States by Number of Highrise Buildings Over 50 Meters (164 Feet) Tall

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 The data comes from skyscraperpage.com, but is from 2021, so might be somewhat out of date.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.

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Filed Under: United States

There Are 36 Countries Within 1,000km From Just Outside Prague

Last Updated: August 22, 2024 2 Comments

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There Are 36 Countries Within 1000km From Just Outside Prague

The map above created using Map Developers shows that you can find yourself in 36 different countries from just outside of Prague.

They are:

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Filed Under: Other

Watch World War I In 60 Seconds

Last Updated: February 25, 2026 Leave a Comment

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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:

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Filed Under: War, History

Global Cancer Rates In People Under 50

Last Updated: August 22, 2024 Leave a Comment

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Global Cancer Rates In People Under 50

Map created Map: Alexa Lardieri Source: WHO
The map above shows the number of age standardized rates of all types of cancer per 100,000 people under 50 by country. The Data comes from the World Health Organization (WHO) and can be seen below:

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Filed Under: World Maps

The Perfect Map of Chile

Last Updated: August 22, 2024 Leave a Comment

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The Perfect Map of Chile

Map created by nolo_sanchesky
The map above is the perfect map of Chile. For non-English speakers Chile is shown as a Chili which are both pronounced the same way.

Why is Chile called Chile?

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Dymaxion Map Of The World With The 30 Largest Countries By Area

Last Updated: June 11, 2025 Leave a Comment

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Dymaxion Map Of The World With The 30 Largest Countries By Area

Map created by cmglee, Philippe Rivière
The Dymaxion (aka Fuller) map above shows a map of the world with the 30 largest countries by area highlighted and ranked.

Now as to why China and the US are each ranked as 3/4:

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Filed Under: World Maps

The USSR Controlled More Of Europe Than Every Other European Country Put Together

Last Updated: January 23, 2026 Leave a Comment

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The USSR Controlled More Of Europe Than 50% of Europe

Map created by denn23rus
The map above shows just how big the USSR was back when it existed.

Just the European part of it was larger geographically than every other European country put together.

If you include the Warsaw Pact countries, it controlled 61%! of the European landmass.

And, what’s even more suprising is that the European part of the Soviet Union was only a quarter of the it’s total land area (although did have around 75% of the population).

In terms of numbers, the European part of the USSR was around 5.2 million km2 (2.0 million sq miles), around 1.5 Indias in size.

Western vs Eastern Europe

Western vs Eastern Europe

Map Created By Geo Universe
By the numbers:

  • 415 million vs 413.73 million people
  • $21 Trillion vs $6.5 Trillion GDP
  • $50,600 vs $15,700 GDP per capita.

What do you think?

Filed Under: History

Size Of The Roman Empire At Its Height Vs The United States

Last Updated: December 8, 2025 Leave a Comment

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The Size Of The Roman Empire At Its Height Vs The United States

Map found on reddit
The map above shows the size of the Roman Empire compared to the modern United States (with a bit of Canada and Mexico thrown in). In terms of numbers here’s how they look:

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Filed Under: History

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