50 Curious Maps That May Not Keep You From Getting Lost, But Can Still Teach You Something

Lord of the Maps

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This is a weirdly beautiful map.

No joke I think I see my London one

Wow! I had NO idea!

Maybe doc and marty were going to northern Canada?

Sea warrior! Ireland's going metal here. 😂

greetings from South Africa, which is a country!

Needs info about the vertical exaggeration factor,

To be honest, I live there and didn't know there were that many. Mind you they might not always have water in them (e.g. the Todd River, where they hold a "regatta" on the dry river bed, unless it actually has water in it!)

It looks sad, but only a few decades ago they were extinct in the wild, with only 54 remaining in captivity. Now there are over 9100, around 7000 in the wild.

A reminder why they went for the one-child policy in the first place, I guess, even though some of the results are now starting to cause them real head-aches.

"Well, that's why we HAD to go shopping in Lindisfarne.' - Middle Ages Norwegian.

Finland has some truly awesome metal.

Aldi was founded by two brothers who didn't get along, so they split the company in Aldi North and Aldi South.

My village in South East England had an Iguanodon fossilised in clay.

Getting the horses in the pool takes special skills.

The greater Reykjavík area.

I think there's another one that needs to be mentioned here . . . .

Put it back.

Back in the olden days when it was "the Gulf of Mexico."

It's amazing that all 10 people who live in Wyoming appear to have completed high school. Congratulations!

The Roman Empire was male? ;-)

Interesting: "Americans spend an average of 5 hours and 16 minutes per day on their phones – a 14% increase from the 4 hours and 37 minutes people reported spending on their phones in 2024."

Interesting that the two main pockets are so widely separated.

Ireland, seriously?

French are allergic to Optimism and Greece knows they are pulling everyone else down, so no surprises.

Do Turks really not like dogs, or is there a more reasonable explanation for the low rate there?

I'm not so convinced electric cars are the future, once the battery is rendered useless, and let's be honest, it will sooner or later, it is really hard to recycle/dispose of them. Not saying petrol is good, but electric is not the holy grail people things it is xx

Now Vlad is trying to get it all back again.

That's a plus sized boot you have there Italy.

interesting, but iffy w/o mentioning year data was collected

Correlates almost exactly with areas of forest.

Does this take into account Napoleanic France where Nappy placed family on European thrones? Need clarity from our resident historians

and in 11 million?

seasonally affected disorder

I didn't even know there was a Colombian mammoth

As a British man, I strongly believe we should never have left the EU. Apes stronger together.

Between 1569 and 1795, apparently. I had no idea.

And the "German" (Schwizerdütsch) is so German that German TV will add German subtitles if Swiss Germans speakers are speaking.

This is what it means to live in an unfree country. You can't display West-Berlin because then people might get an idea of the roads/infrastructure which they then use to flee their country (edit: which was Eastern Germany - the Deutsche Demokratische Republik).

OMG how can you even read this when everything gets censored? In addition, I am just guessing that the more blue a state is, the better it is?

How about the UK, now they have seen the other side?

Now I really wonder what Latvians have against organ donation compared to Estonians and Lithuanians.

May have something to do with the lack of quality public transportation.

A great-uncle of mine "vacationed" there in 1943-44 with the Seabees.

Spain does not have a fixed border? What does that even mean?

Had to Google this. Ululation from Latin ululo, trilling or lele, is a long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid back and forth movement of the tongue and the uvula.

The Kakhovka Reservoir was drained due to the catastrophic destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on June 6, 2023. So guess who we have to blame for this one , looking at you Russia !

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Aldi Sud , also owns Trader Joes

In countries such as the US, those not paying any income tax includes some of the wealthiest.

Germany complaining about it while having one of the fastest is very on brand.

Okay, we get it. Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe.

We’ve lost Denmark to the pigs…

It is a bit skewed because somebody from Algeria will not understand somebody form Saudi Arabia , they may write the same , like the Chinese but have vastly different pronounciations

this map is sponsored and approved by the People's Republic of Communist China.

That’s disgusting.

Fascinating look at the British empire over time for anyone interested. https://www.openculture.com/2018/05/watch-rise-fall-british-empire-animated-time-lapse-map-519-b-c-2014-d.html

Netherlands: awesome!