30 Fascinating Maps You Don’t See In School, As Shared On This Online Group (New Pics)

Love it

Seen this more than once. Still impressed.

Grandpa may have been stoned a time or two

I seen his one before. To me this looks like some kind of space ship.

The Pacific is larger than all the world's land masses combined.

I didn't even know this was a thing, going to google to educate myself some more.

Why are most of these comparisons to american states?

I think I've told this story before but a friend of mine sent a love letter to her French boyfriend, in French, and he sent it back to her with the grammar corrected. So that tracks with the French reaction...

Cyprus looking like a tiny rainbow

Not to keen on the babies outside marriage in Türkiye then.

Did you know: Brazil is so big that it can fit the entirety of Brazil within itself :D

Pretty sure this is solely based on schedules and does not reflect reality in some countries.

The areas where the plantations used to be... (sigh)

It's really important with this dataset to recognise it is purely about *feelings* not *actual risk*. I've seen so many headlines about how this country or that is sliding down the safety league table etc and when I've followed up on the data, the crime rates rarely track the perceptions. Much more to do with political and media narratives, esp around immigration.

Greece?

UK is including Liz Truss, which seems a bit of a technicality

Hang on...is the map saying Greece was ruled by the Romans for longer than Rome itself was? Or am I misreading it?

I’m not sure how recent this data is, it certainly isn’t this high for Gen-z. It would be interesting to see the generational statistics

What was WW1 even about? As far as I can see, it was a feud between some royal cousins that got ugly...

I'd be that one person in ireland

Vienna would have been 18,000,002, if my parents hadn't been ill

The red dot on Vatican City is ridiculous. Sure, they have religious issues with that but there is no actual risk for travelers. Con the contrary, China, Japan and India should have been much further on the purple side.

Horrendous!

Russia’s cold amazes us once more!

But it seems like everything is going so well in India. They have Modi suppressing elections, religious extremism getting out of control, the resurgence of sexism and homophobia, and supporting Putin/Trump/North Korea. Everything's going so well there...

Switzerland uses a lot the referendum system, even for ordinary things; it's a very direct form of decision, and parties are not so much ideologically divisive as in other places. Italy also requires them for changes that have an effect on the constitution or that are culturally sensitive.

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Albania: Holy Mary holding Baby Jesus in her right arm, Andorra: Apse fresco of Sant Miquel d'Engolasters church, Austria: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, Belarus: The Fiddler by Marc Chagal, lBelgium: The Son of Man by René Magritte, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mountain landscape by Karlo Mijić, Bulgaria: Rachenitsa Dance by Ivan Mrkvička, Croatia: Roman Woman Playing A Lute by Vjekoslav Karas, Cyprus: Couple by Stelois Votsis, Czech Republic: The Absinthe Drinker by Viktor Oliva, Denmark: The Little Mermaid, Estonia: Half Nude in Striped Skirt by Adamson-Eric, Finland: The Wounded Angel by Hugo Simberg, France: Sunrise by Claude Monet, Germany: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich, Greece: Venus de Milo, Hungary: The Old Fisherman by Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Iceland: Thingvellir by Thorarinn B. Thorlaksson, Ireland: Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis BaconI, taly: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Latvia: After Church by Janis Rozentāls,

The Judean Peoples Front!

These are government gold reserves. Not mineral reserves.

I bet I could trace East vs West Germany from those regions...not perfectly of course but it could be a decent map.

There is one Thing to think about: IT is the European Song Co test. So what is Austrslia ding there ? The answer: They are such huge Fans of that contest, that they are allowed to participate.

Hungary staying strong to it’s no we don’t like your language philosophy

*Sad British noises*

Germany has very poor Street View coverage, it is a white dot in Europe.

My mother tried to blame my autism on Chernobyl, as we were living in Marseilles at the time and she was convinced that was the reason for my weirdness. Spoiler alert: it's not.

Yep, checks out.

Soon my friends, soon...

It sounds bad that gender-affirming care is outlawed for under-18's, but isn't that to protect them from rash decisions?

Vote!

Should be 16. Who's going to be affected by good or bad policies longer? 75-year-old pensioners? Or 17-year-olds just about to junp into adulthood, with their whole lives ahead of them?

There's a law in Greece where a 0.5 lt water bottle cannot be sold for more than € 0.50 and the 1.5 lt bottle over € 1.50

All the red areas west of the Mississippi are where Californians have been moving to (excluding California itself, obviously).

In 1939 there were 3 million Jews in Poland with 1 million in Warsaw alone, a community that grew from 200,000 in the 1670s to larger numbers. Officially a protected minority group, in the 1920s a few hundred thousand fled from govt protected pogroms. The small Jewish community there today however experiences little antisemitism. For hundred of years, until the mid 1600s (when the massacres in the Kossack uprising happened) Poland was considered the the best treatment of their Jewish minority, even more than the Ottomans in the 1500s.

Luxembourgers don't actually do or produce much, except sit on top of a lot of money that belongs to people from other countries.

Gosh I wonder why /s

I'm surprised the UK doesn't even get a mention, it never stops raining here.

Wish it said which countries expect tongues. I'm always getting that wrong.

So, is this a poll of preference, or a map of population density for people who can't understand percentages?

In my own experience with Greece (well the island of Corfu), you mostly pump your own.

So secular countries aren't doing that, who would have guessed?

Wait, "Prussia's fault"?

Concurrently or consecutively?

For all who said so, I'm not weird for being a Canadian and liking BBC.

The Lusofonia Games didn't work out, did they? They tried to compete with the Commonwealth Games and Jeux de la Francophonie but just don't have the numbers. (Strange that there isn't a Spanish diaspora world competitition....)

*Squints at map*

The green areas are mostly those that were heavily settled by Russians during the Soviet era.

What about the Roman empire?

Quite high compared to back in the day.

These ratings mean absolutely nothing, by the way.