30 Maps That Show Much More Than Just A Location Of A Country

The Earth may not be a perfectly round sphere for space football, but it would be an amazing sensory widget for stimming. What I mean is, I want to touch this map.

The formidable Andes. Amazing that the rugby team (the ones famous for cannibalism) were able to get out at all. I really recommend the podcast You're Wrong About for learning more about their ordeal. It's an amazing story and testament to the human spirit.

I’m ready for my 20 second nap.

I wish we learned in school that the Mercator projection and the actual size/shape of the Earth's landmasses are often wildly different

The star parties you could have in North Korea, though.

Looks like a nervous system.

And matching rocks, and seafloor spreading rates and directions as determined by magnetic orientations of oceanic rocks. And radiometric dating.

Living in San Francisco for 48 years and I've seen lightning here less than 10 times.

The grey areas represent presence of more stuff that will kill you than not.

I looked at doing this back in 2019. The plan was to try and get to Japan without flying- you can get the ferry from Korea at the end. However I talked to someone who had done the Trans Siberian express and found it really dull and testing. Day after day of looking at pine trees drives you a bit mad, and I have some dietary issues so would worry about not being able to eat any food they sold. Might be good as a meditation or writing retreat! In the end I took the train from London to Bologna in Italy, visited a friend there, and then flew to Tokyo. This year I did my first sleeper train (London to Penzance) and really didn't enjoy it, so I think I made the right choice!

It increases my respect for Odysseus.

Some of those other countries are happier though 🤫 economy isn't everything

And yet every winter there are homeless people here freezing to death. Yay capitalism.

So, what are the populations?

Not quite true. More like no cities, or big towns, in the green zones. But there are lots of little communities or farms in there.

Africa is a continent, so why would it be in any way surprising that it should fit many countries in it? That's basically what a continent is, after all. (And yes, Europe is also a continent, but it's very small).

It's a straight line on a globe.

No one in Egypt admits this - they're all in de Nile

Java has a population of 150 million. Indonesia has a population of 275 million.

I thought Steamed Hams was a Simpsons joke

Micheal Jackson probably visited Heihe

Largely determined by which countries have bases in those areas, so they stick on the same time zone as their homeland.

Unforgivable.

They are super visible in Tukey and Greece though. Street cats everywhere.

This is a fascinating topic. There are several factors that mean in most of Europe more males.are born than females (distance from the equator being one); but differences in migration and life expectancy change that balance when you look at everyone.

Maxican?

Looks like the map of pubs in the UK.

It was originally called the "IV League" because of football - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth - that played together.

Russia.....also a repressive communist dictatorship...(USSR) Nothing has changed since the 60s.

They're actually taking off in the US now.

Why did they take England off? Rude. (And don't say it's EU countries only, because Scotland and NI aren't EU and neither are some of the other countries here)

Somehow I feel like urban areas should be a bit larger. Or is this just counting large cities?

Mmm. In the UK, it's illegal to collect wild flowers and other wild plants. Even picking up fallen sticks on the ground is technically theft. Whoever produced this map doesn't seem to have paid careful attention, although admittedly the UK does have more than two forests...

I don't disagree with most of the choices. I'm mostly just curious how each was chosen. What criteria was used to select the most 'iconic'?

Good that they don't show Afghanistan. It's 0.0%

I don't know why (well, ignorance, of course) but I always thought of London as flat.

the fact people feel the need to flee their own country is sad. why cant we have a semi-peaceful world where you don't have to be scared in your own home?

Wow. I had no idea that so many were so ill-educated. But it explains quite a lot, now I come to think about it. Now I want to see a correlation between education level and Trump supporters.

It's why the kebabs are good

and i want to eat them all.

What? How is this measured and how is the data collected? I call bullsh*t on some of the information shown on these maps.

Also true in Australia if you are a learner...

just want to run my fingers across this image ( don't make this dirty please!)

That's because in some places, people whine about paying taxes. But the jurisdiction has to get money some way, so the main occupation of the cops is catching speeders. Those are also the places where you pay a fee for every fricking thing you do.

Truely this is most interestingest map

All the Domino's in Italy have closed.

Whatever the source for this map, it's got it horribly wrong - because it suggests that the industrial revolution hadn't reached Scotland or much of northern England by the 1880s - hadn't even reached Liverpool by the look of it. The first intercity railway opened in 1830 between Liverpool and Manchester and was a bit of a significant landmark in the industrial revolution, which arguably began in around 1705 in Cornwall (Newcomen's pumping engine, with a bit of help from France), which according to this map only got the industrial revolution in the 1850s. And never mind what was going on in Italy and Spain... Basically, the map's nonsense.

Cricket is a tricky one because there are three main formats and you can have a separate champion in each. Australia are the Test and ODI champions, but India are the T20 champions.

[Puts up hand] Colour-blind here: which is the red area?

I'd love to see countries David Attenborough has visited...

It'd be nice if this was legible

To be fair, for most of the country, businesses are kinda far from homes. We did have a culture of walkable businesses before the turn of the century. Now, not so much.

And New Zealand

How do you measure that?

Better? Worse? Without metrics, this just looks like somebody's opinion.