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50 Informative Maps As Shared By This Page That Might Change Your Perspective On Things
The oldest maps out there are roughly 4000 years old, depicting a section of the river Odet valley in modern Finistère, Brittany. It was found in a tomb, possibly to communicate to people what its inhabitant “controlled.” The fact is that all through history, humans have been trying to make records of the world around them in interesting ways.
The “Simon shows you maps” Facebook page, run by the titular Simon, is dedicated to sharing cool and interesting maps. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the best ones and be sure to share your thoughts and ideas in the comments section down below.
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Stumbled Across A Dumb Little Post
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
Easier solution os for the West Coast form one country. A second country around the Great Lakes and a Third in New England. The rest of the rest of what's left will quickly discover where the money was coming from.
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
Um I think you are forgetting the MId Atlantic which is one of the wealthiest parts of the country.
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Kim Kermes 4 months ago
Oh, hell no! Let the traitors of the confederacy secede again. This time we'll let them.
DowntownStevieB 4 months ago
Also, no, as a U.S. citizen, this will fail. All the major cities are Democratic and I really don't want the Trumpers in charge of NYC...
Nikole 4 months ago
As a resident of Chicago, I think new states would have to be formed, and those states part of the two different countries. Dámn, this is crazy to think about, but we can’t let those MAGA morons continue to drag us down.
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Molly A. Block 4 months ago
Deutscher hier auch. I agree with DavidfromGermany; I'm German too, and this will indeed cause problems later on. But can you imagine what the world would be like right now if the horror ended here like it did in Germany on April 30, 1945? I see ICE acting in the same disgusting regard as the SS did back then! The Jews were INNOCENT and so are the majority of the ppl King Cheeto is illegally throwing out of our "MELTING POT" country! This county was BUILT by the hands of immigrants and I bet you the majority of them never got their citizenship, and I am grateful for all of the beautiful work they did into making America what it WAS. Because it is definitely NOT the same America I was born in! It's being ruined right before our eyes. And WTF cares about some stupid "Auto-pen" b.s. anyways? I mean, really! King Cheeto will try anything and everything to put anyone else down! He's so proud of his thick *ss sharpie markers! Surprised they aren't in orange ink!
Pyla 4 months ago
Don’t kid yourselves: the west coast has a lot of reactionary knotheads. Just saw a guy in his pickup with one of those flat trailers for carrying gardening stuff ablaze with a confederate flags. Remember Ruby Ridge? Like a dig whistle for white racist flight into the region.
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
Stephen Miller is from California. That's all you need to know
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Wild Cream 4 months ago
As a Canadian, we will happily adopt the US west coast :) and new york
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago (edited)
This is wildly oversimplified, but the basic idea is good. Red U.S. and blue U.S. need an amicable divorce, with agreed-upon rules. The two sides have nothing in common and do not want the same things. Forcing people to stay together DOES NOT WORK. Let’s have a divorce, so we can avoid a war.
Julie Rogers 4 months ago (edited)
There were people who thought that before and tried to secede. It didn't work out. "A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided."
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
Uh no thanks. I live in the right and dont want anything to do with a set up like that.
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For A While During The Northern Hemisphere’s Summer, The Sun Sets In Eastern Brazil Before It Does In Ireland. Now You Know
Spidercat 4 months ago
Of course the Earth is flat. How else would it stay on the Turtle?
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There Are European Cities That Have Been Continuously Inhabited For 7000-8000 Years!
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago
I was about to say "I thought Damascus was the longest continually inhabited city?" then remembered that Syria is in Asia and I'm an idiot.
Verena 4 months ago
If you are able to admit an error, then you are far from an idiot
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Ace 4 months ago
Historically interesting that with only one exception they're all in the Mediterranean.
IORN 4 months ago
Guess the exception is Derbent. Plovdiv, Cadiz, Lisbon - in the Mediterranean? You sure?
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Jamie Peterson 4 months ago
Dinosaurs, Archaeology, History - more entertaining than brain washing misogyny - enjoy church on Sunday... but hey, each to their own 'truth'. ;)
Michelle C 4 months ago
I was initially surprised nobody mentioned Israel, that I remembered that Israel is technically in Asia, as is the rest in the Middle East. My brain is not working as well as it usually does today due to poor sleep!
From the time our ancestors first marked lines in the dirt to stake out hunting ground or chart the changing seasons, mapping has been at the root of how we understand the world. Here's why we can't help but take data and turn it into multicolored maps overlaid on familiar landscapes:
Maps directly tap into our spatial intuition. When you see numbers or patterns overlaid on a geographical landscape, whether dots for earthquake epicenters or color-shaded countries by population density, the relationships pop out at you. Suddenly, what were once abstract statistics become something you can almost "see" and even "feel" in your mind's eye.
#4
Etymology Of Spain. This Map Shows The Origin Of Various Spanish Province Names
Moises Tomás Rubio 4 months ago
Everything related to the Iberian language is difficult and unknown...only theories explain some names. Gerunda: 'the old 'one'; Barkeno: theories ranging from myths about Herakles to the family name 'Barca' from Carthago...; Balda al yawz could be arabic for 'land of walnut trees', or from latin 'vadum clausum' a wde in the Guadiana river.
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#5
Wait, this is a real thing? A cave deeper than 2000m? And people are crazy enough to go all the way down? Good lord! It’s a hard no from me. Happy to support mountaineers all the way to the top but caving is a big no no for your friendly armchair cartography enthusiast
Corwin 02 4 months ago
2km for fun or how about 4 Km for work , the deepest mine in the world is the Mponeng Gold Mine in South Africa. It reaches a depth of over 4 kilometers (approximately 2.5 miles) below the surface.
T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago
Went down 800m at Gold Reef City and that was far enough for me!!
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Marianne 4 months ago
Imagine what it must feel like to be 2000 meters below the surface. The fact that some people are willing to go there is crazy. Human curiosity and spirit of adventure really knows no boundaries.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Not going to lie, if I had any experience spelunking, I'd totally want to go down there. Consequences be damned, I wanna see that different rocky spot.
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As A German, For A Personal Meeting 12 Means 12 But For A Professional Meeting 12 Means Be 5 Minutes Early. Any Alternative Interpretation Hurts My Little German Brain
Pernille 4 months ago
I was born, and lived in the blue part for almost 40 years. While I have assimilated pretty well to all aspects of life in France, the fact that everyone is late is not easy to get used to. I carry a book, and try not to be annoyed, but it still annoys me.
Laugh or not 4 months ago
I am French, living in Germany. My friends come EARLY. They have caught me in the shower because I expected them to be 15-20 minutes late and they were 15-20 minutes early.
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DowntownStevieB 4 months ago
I work in medicine in the USA and this is truly an issue here with people making appointments. We will 'no show' you and move on to the next if you're more than 15 mins late. Our patient's from more southerly Europe to India had lots of issues being on time. Such a huge cultural concern.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
If we’re late it’s the end of the world. So how come every time I have a medical appointment, the doctor is always late? Why the double standard?
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Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
I had a doctor's appointment yesterday at 14:30. Because of ADHD, I always allot extra time for appointments, so I arrived at 14:08, as traffic chanced to be light. My appointment ended at 14:28, 2 minutes before it was scheduled. Good things can happen when you're early, and nothing good happens when you're late.
Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
I am an on-time person. In Southern US, I guess on time means 10 minutes early. It drives me crazy.
Nikole 4 months ago
I’m a mildly late person, but not for job interviews. My mom’s family used to show up like a half hour early for holidays at our house. They lived 20 minutes away. I’m still bitter.
Load More Replies...A table or a sequence of bars will tell you "what," yet just a map can guide you through the "where" and "why." Think about a heat map of global coffee consumption: you instantly sense cultural hotspots in Scandinavia and Brazil. You can almost taste the latte in Oslo and the cafézinho in São Paulo. A map weaves narrative into bare facts, rendering facts an unforgettable experience.
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This Map Shows What The Word "Yankee" Means Around The World
Daria 4 months ago
[i was curious and googled it]: the word "yankee" likely derives from the Dutch diminutive "Janke" or "Janneke," which means "Little John" (a diminutive of the common Dutch name Jan, equivalent to English "John"). This nickname was probably first used by Dutch settlers in New Netherland (modern New York) as a derogatory term for English colonists in neighboring New England, particularly in Connecticut. The term was first used derogatorily by the British in the mid-18th century and appears as early as the 1750s to describe American colonists, often paired with terms like "doodle" and "dandy". During the American Revolution, Americans reclaimed the word as a badge of pride. The word "Yankee" later evolved to mean Northerners or Union soldiers during the Civil War.
Bryn 4 months ago
I was born and raised in Washington State in the US and Yankee means a New Englander, not a northerner
Michelle C 4 months ago
Depending on who you ask in Maryland, it’s either a term for northerners or New Englanders. I say that because I was born and raised in Maryland and were considered either a mid-Atlantic and upper Southern or mid-Atlantic border state depending on who you ask. I’ve known fellow Marylanders to be described as Yankees by folks further south than Maryland. We’re a bit odd in that sense because much of Maryland is below the Mason-Dixon Line and we were considered a border state during the Civil War.
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Michael Largey 4 months ago
Yankee is a term that has been applied to all New Englanders.
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Hobby Hopper 4 months ago
I'm a yankee by 2 or 5 of these definitions, depending on whether places I *used* to live count.
Tom Brincefield 4 months ago
During the Carter administration the First Lady, Rosalynn Carter was on a trip in Central America. The relations between the USA and the various Latin American nations were even worse than they are now, so there were crowds protesting her presence. She was quite upset, especially when she discovered they were calling her a Yankee.
#8
If You Are Being Born Today, This Is The Likelihood Of You Ending Up In Each Continent
WindySwede 4 months ago
But if both your parents live in X, what are the chances of being born there? 😏🤷♂️
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General Anaesthesia 4 months ago (edited)
I'm missing the European part of Russia on this map, which places all of Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus in Asia. European Russia has a population of around 110 million, while Asian Russia has about 37 million people. The Ural Mountains run 2500 km north-south through western Russia, and form the boundary between Europe and Asia.
#9
Almost one third of Russians are opposed to vaccines. The second ranked country is the world’s most advanced economy happily shooting itself not in the arm but in the foot. My birth country of Germany also has unnecessarily high opposition
DowntownStevieB 4 months ago
Trump's misinformation campaign cost so many republican's their lives and is doing damage again in his second term. See the return of eradicated diseases...
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
In my country, Brazil, opposition is growing due to the growth of evangelical conspiracy theorists. It's crazy, because traditionally we've had one of the best vaccination programs globally.
nm 4 months ago
My Brazilian ex-BIL and his wife are "espiritas". Close to my house in Brazil there was a church do evangelho quadrangular. In a country that was exclusively catholic.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 4 months ago
So send all of the anti-vax idiots to 1 place along with some people that have been exposed to the different diseases and see how long it takes for them to change their minds.
Ryan Wilkins 4 months ago
The education system and the lack of common sense is nowhere to be seen in the garbage USA
Wild Cream 4 months ago
And now RFK jr is in charge of their healthcare, and he’s a vaccine skeptic - they’re cooked :( I feel so bad for the non-Trump-supporting Americans.
Load More Replies... El Dee 4 months ago
During COVID I remember being proud that it hadn't been politicised in my country. But then - it was. Seemed a fairly straightforward divide, those who were on the right/far right of politics wouldn't get vaccinated but those in the centre/left would. You could predict vaccination levels by how right wing certain parts were. It's almost as if the right wing don't believe in science..
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
This should surprise no one even remotely familiar with recent history.
Maps transcend borders, languages, and technojargon. Everyone, anywhere, no matter their background, understands a red‑to‑blue ramp for vote share or a constellation of icons for Wi‑Fi coverage. This universality is an asset for maps when communicating quickly, essential in a crisis, live news, or even executive briefings. Entire teams can be on the same page at a glance as to where to allocate resources.
#10
Young adults are dying at an increasing rate in the United States. France roughly mirrored the US before the introduction of Oxycontin in the mid-90s and later fentanyl. The US isn't doing a great job looking after its own people
The Darkest Timeline 4 months ago
There is a large contingent of people who vehemently reject the notion of the government being at all responsible for “taking care of its people” outside of military services to protect borders. I think those people should all move to the Dakotas, build a fence around them, promise them they won’t be “invaded,” then they can live out their rugged individualist cosplay while the rest of us move on.
DowntownStevieB 4 months ago
That sharp uptick was due to Trump's inaction with COVID and his rhetoric with the illness. Millions of Trumpers lost their lives and yet they still idol worship. It's sick.
Ace 4 months ago (edited)
This implies that the upswing is related to drúg use, the new opioids in particular, A little superficial digging finds that these figures do indeed support that idea, with drúg poisoning being one of the leading causes of death in the US. (in the data used for this graph, not overall)
Trisec Tebeakesse 4 months ago
Not true! We take great care of those with pasty white skin and 7 figure incomes!!
Seedy Vine 4 months ago
The only rights left in the US are the corporations' rights to poison us.
Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
As an American, I feel it's time for the US to be Balkanized. The regions of the US so drastically differ from one another, being in some cases diametrically opposed. I'm a New Englander and a Social Democrat, and I'm 60yo. I have voted in every single election since I turned 18yo, and have only enthusiastically voted FOR a candidate for president three times (Obama's first term, Bernie in 2016, and Harris in 2024) out of eleven elections. All other times, I've been forced to vote for the lesser of two evils. (Yes, I did vote for Biden and was pleasantly surprised by his term, but my vote was more against Trump.) If the New England states formed their own country, we would have the 14th strongest economy in the world and be much more connected ideologically. And we wouldn't have to suffer under the policies of willfully ignorant, regressive, and greedy hypocrites.
#11
Map Shows The World In About 250 Million Years
MedusaWasBeautiful 4 months ago
Except no. The Atlantic is growing and the Pacific is shrinking.
#12
The Great Fire of London ragged in 1666. This fantastic map overlays the effected area on modern day London. Would be cool to walk the area to feel the extent
Chewie Baron 4 months ago
What we were taught in history about this, is that a year earlier, 1665 was the last major outbreak of a plague in London. The fire need up doing more good than damage. What was disappointing was that during the rebuild, there was a chance to build large boulevards, wide open streets. But no. They just stuck to the same street plan as we had previously and went back to weird dark twisty lanes. Just this time all the houses were made out of stone.
Humans are wired to detect patterns. A crowd‑sourced map of real‑time traffic flow makes rush‑hour bottlenecks stand out, and a map of deforestation reveals the spread of agriculture into rainforest. By layering different datasets, rainfall over crop yields, say, we become detectives, observing correlations and asking "What's happening here?" It's a powerful superpower for researchers, planners, and curious minds of all types.
#13
Let’s See If This Map Will Come In Handy Any Time Soon
XenoMurph 4 months ago (edited)
Upvote for the smaller languages being included. In Ireland the official term for the police is "Garda Siochana", "Guardians of the peace", mostly referred to as "The guards"
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago
Similar in Welsh: heddwas (police officer) from "hedd" (peace) and "gwas" (servant)
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BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
In Portuguese "Pau" means stick, like from a tree. Not something is usually associate with peace, as when we were kids sticks often were the weapons of choice between my brother and i
#14
Fun Infographic Shows When We Tend To Peak At Certain Things
Heir of Durin 4 months ago
Happiness with your body at 74!? Psychological well-being at 82!? I guess there is hope for me yet.
Wang Zhuang 4 months ago
I really wish I could have learned a second language when I was a kid :-(
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
What I heard was "I'm passed having to worry about all those things"
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Wild Cream 4 months ago
Thank god I’m only 33, I still have time to earn that Nobel and make a better salary
Rich Black 4 months ago
Why does brain processing power align with lielihood of causing a car crash?
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Roosters Without Borders
AmazingUsername2008 4 months ago
Brilliant work from the censorship here, glad to have been saved from rooster noises
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Thank you 😂 I'm in tears trying to figure out how the f**k the chicken goes that.
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Spannidandoolar 4 months ago
This is fun for a lot of animal noises, working in a multilingual office has its perks and this chat was always one of them!
Let's be real: well-designed maps are just plain fun to look at. Bright color schemes, swooping coastlines, and tidily arranged legends invite you to dive in. Cartographers often sneak in Easter eggs, a tiny sketch of a landmark, say, that rewards a closer look. Interactive web maps bring the fun to a whole new level, letting you zoom in from global overviews to street-level detail, toggle layers on and off, or watch animated shifts over time.
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I Live Such A Sheltered Life That I Had Never Heard Of A Horse Chopping Sabre Before
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
I'm assuming that a "horse chopping sword" is intended to cut down cavalry. Like Pikes, Spears and Halberds.
DetriMentaL (It/That) 4 months ago
We have declined so far as a civilization that 21st century design may as well be a toothbrush shank called StabbymcStabface
Michelle C 4 months ago
Is anyone else fascinated that the basic structure of a sword has never changed?
Michael Largey 4 months ago
But swords are no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses.
Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
I love edged weapons and was familiar with most of these. A basket-hilted sword is NOT a claymore! They're probably referring to a Scottish backsword, which does have a basket hilt. A claymore is larger and heavier, with a handle that can be gripped with one or both hands. Sometimes called a hand-and-a-half.
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
Fun fact. Straight swords are effective against people wearing armor, whereas a curved blade is a stronger blade for hand to hand combat. Countries that did not use metal armor in combat never bothered with straight swords. Japan, for instance, was an island nation with limited access to metals. Building a full suit of steel armor would have been prohibitively expensive. The Arabian countries didn't use armor either, because anyone in metal armor would die from the heat before any battle started.
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Germany’s Economy Faces Many Struggles Buuuuut It Is Still Huge As This Map Reminds Us
Ace 4 months ago
In case anyone's interested, the combined population of the yellow countries is just less than twice that of Germany.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
That's exactly what I was interested in. Thanks.
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Challenge: Which Definition, Which Terminology Doesn’t Offend Anyone? I’ve Found That Someone Will Always Be Mad
andrew jack 4 months ago
I am proud to be British, but more proud to be Scottish. It annoys me that people in the USA confuse England with Britain/United Kingdom.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
My cousins in Belfast are not keen on being called English.
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Foxglove🇮🇪 4 months ago
My husband is Irish, he hates the "British Isles" term. I've explained it's just a geographic term but he's having none of it.
WindySwede 4 months ago
wiki: Self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea.
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XenoMurph 4 months ago
"British Isles" is no longer simply a geographical term. The political situation is complicated enough and a politically neutral term like Scandinavia or Iberia is needed for this group of islands where some people want to ensure they are not identified as "British"
Pedantic Panda 4 months ago (edited)
Very true, what about Western Europe archipelago. Or Celtic isles?
Load More Replies... Rich Black 4 months ago
True fact. Brits hate residents of Wales just because of their accents
From emergency responders deciding where to send rescue teams, to retailers deciding where to open new outlets, maps are vital decision‑making aids. They help us allocate resources efficiently, assess risks, and plan for the future. Mapping epidemiological data during an epidemic, for instance, can quite literally save lives by revealing hotspots and guiding vaccination campaigns.
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This map of Ukrainian deep strike capability is astonishing. Drone warfare is so hard to defend against. Any country not heavily investing in defensive and offensive drone technology is simply naive.
Ace 4 months ago
No, they were mostly brought in range by lorry, many of them on commercial delivery services, then activated locally once in place.
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The Australian efforts towards tackling the public health issue that is smoking were super successful. Something the country should be proud of. Look at the huge number of ex smokers Australian policies created. Good stuff.
Zero Costa 4 months ago
my dad recently got back into smoking after quitting cold turkey like two decades ago... disappointed
Michelle C 4 months ago (edited)
Giving it up is hard, I’m told. My dad quit when I was six and picked up the habit again when I was twenty-three or so. I can only pray he quit for good since I don’t keep regular contact with him. I’m sorry that you’ve experienced the ill effects of a close family member smoking, too, and hope for both to give it up for good!
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Bob Jones 4 months ago
A packet of cigarettes now costs about A$50 due to the taxes on them. The result is that there is now a huge market of illegally imported cigarettes run by organised crime and sold cheap on just about every street corner.
Wild Cream 4 months ago
That’s annoying. In Canada they’re like $20-$30/pack (I remember buying them for $6-$7 only 15 years ago) but we have a big issue with bootleg smokes too. For a while before she quit, my mum was buying her cigarettes loose in big ziploc freezer bags from the “black market” lol (meaning Gary in the trailer park down the street). I think she was getting 200 cigs for like $50.
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Just A Quick Reminder. A Little Public Service Announcement To Please My Dutch Friends
Jaya 4 months ago (edited)
Holland isn't a thing, it's simply the incorrect name (although historically it makes sense) for the Netherlands. It's not that North Holland and South Holland together form a region called Holland, that's not how it works. (Kinda like how you don't say South Dakota and North Dakota together are called Dakota (for as far as I know, I'm not American obviously)). Here in the Netherlands we don't use the word Holland to refer to those 2 provinces together, we only use Holland as an alternative name for the whole Netherlands. And when Dutch people call themselves or someone else a Hollander, they mean Dutch, not that they're specifically from North Holland or South Holland.
Judes 4 months ago
Many years ago I remember the Dutch Olympic team (or similar---can't quite remember) had 'Holland' on their tracksuits. My mum was disgusted because she's Dutch and she made sure we knew the difference between Holland and the Netherlands from a young age (we grew up in Australia).
Load More Replies... MadMonkey 4 months ago (edited)
US ex-pat living in the Netherlands. I always call it "the Netherlands" when I'm back in the US, but often the situation arises when I call it Holland. If I say, "I live in the Netherlands" I usually get blank stares. In reality, it's sort of true that I live in Holland, because we live in North Holland. I have zero faith in most US folks to know the geography of Europe, or anywhere, actually. I'll bet half of them can't point to where the Dakotas are, or know in which one Mount Rushmore is (or even identify the four people on Mount Rushmore).
nottheactualphoto 4 months ago
It's the non-Holland part of the Netherlands.
Load More Replies... Above all, maps mirror the world and our choices back at us. They remind us why some places thrive and others struggle, how our actions remake the planet, and where injustices cluster. By mapping everything from literacy to air quality, we are faced with the issues that confront us, and can more readily imagine solutions.
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The classification of Germany in this map classifying the nature of most commonly used profanities across Europe is certainly correct. I would argue a whole category is missing here: family related profanities. Sure, they are often mixed with sexual insults but I thing they deserve their own category!
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Medical things being used as profanity? That’s a new one on me.
Elisabeth 4 months ago
Diseases, mostly old ones like typhoid or tb, but olso cancer. So you could call someone a teringlijer - a sufferer of tb. Or combine it with other profanities: a thyphoid w***e.
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Jaya 4 months ago
I'm surprised to see that we Dutch people are the only green one, I assumed there would be more countries that swear by using names of diseases a lot.
XenoMurph 4 months ago
it's considered bad form here to refer to a disease as an insult. Diseases aren't a choice. But if you are an a*****e, it's because you choose to be an a*****e.
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Petya 4 months ago
As a Bulgarian, we surely don't use religious profanities most. I honestly couldn't think of one from the top of my head. Just got reminded from a comment that "go to hell" would qualify, but if I was to think of the most used profanities, they would definitely be sexual, stuff like "I will f**k your mom", "Go f**k yourself", or just an exclamation of"di*k".
#23
Technically Correct
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
Good luck with that. Siberia is huge. It makes Texas look like a Tyco Toy. I said what I said.
Wild Cream 4 months ago
lol most Canadian provinces are larger than Texas so I’ve never thought Texas was that big 😂
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Truth
Enuya 4 months ago
It's not true. Poles generally enjoy it when you speak in Polish with them. Many even find it admirable that you try to learn our language. And Germans definitely appreciated when I tried talking in German with them and were vey understanding.
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
I think that is true about most cultures. Except the French.
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XenoMurph 4 months ago
Why are people downvoting me.... Irish Gaelic exists, so does Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh.
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Katiekat 4 months ago
I agree with most of this, but in France, I definitely got better treatment when I tried to speak some French, even if poorly. It showed them I was making an effort, knew I was an American on foreign soil, and was making an attempt to be respectful and polite. 10/10, would recommend, will do so again... whenever I get to travel. Just saw a documentary on Mont St Michel... MUST GO!
Michelle C 4 months ago (edited)
That really only applies to Paris in France. The rest of France will appreciate you trying, especially if you prove a willingness to learn or you’re already fluent and proficient in French.
Scott Rackley 4 months ago
True. I speak French and in Paris it's just better to speak English. Like they're offended I know their language. Places like Lyon or Toulouse they become very friendly.
Load More Replies... Trisec Tebeakesse 4 months ago
American strangely learning Russian. The few folks I have attempted to talk to were indeed genuinely astonished.
Wild Cream 4 months ago
Canadian who learned basic Russian for a trip to northern Ukraine (where most people speak Russian) - I found it mixed! Some people were impressed and happy to chat, some (like the cashier at a grocery store who was trying to ask me if I wanted a plastic bag but I was 1000% not understanding her lmao) seemed annoyed, or like they were wondering why I’d bother 😂 there’s very little English there so I kinda had no choice but I think my accent is atrocious
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
Are the French really that bad? I haven't met many over the years.
Pernille 4 months ago
No. Only the stressed out Parisians. As long as you lead with a friendly " Bonjour" the french are nice.
Load More Replies... Uncle Schmickle 4 months ago
I found French people appreciate it when an English speaker TRIES to speak French.
Rich Black 4 months ago
Thevfrench are difficult to get along with on so many other matters too.
CaliPanda 4 months ago
True for Spain! Before a work trip to Barcelona, I brushed up on my Spanish (learned it long go, but don’t use it regularly). My first stop after wandering the town was a corner cafe and I ordered in Spanish. Maybe not perfect (I learned Castilian not Catalan), but they understood me. The staff was kind and even gifted me a glass of wine after I paid my bill. Love Spain.
In short, mapping data turns the maze of numbers into a comprehensible cosmos. It is a synthesis of insight, storytelling, art, and strategy, no wonder we come back to maps time and again when we want to make sense of our complex, interrelated world.
#25
Germans And Scandinavias Holidaying In Spain Lose Their Mind Over The Late Dinners
martymcmatrix 4 months ago
Looks like climate and the respective time (summer or winter) determine when dinner is served...🤷🏽
Patricia the Grey 4 months ago
Tapas places saved us in Spain. They were the only places open when we wanted to eat.
Uncle Schmickle 4 months ago
So do Americans ..... at least the group with whom I travelled in Spain some years ago ( I'm an Aussie ).
Rich Black 4 months ago
Wait . . .what? Norwegians eat dinner at 17:30? 530 in the afternoon? This seems made up
Dariusz M. D. 4 months ago
'Germans And Scandinavias Holidaying In Spain Lose Their Mind Over The Late Dinners' Hahahahaha. They really do.
Paulina 4 months ago
I think this map confused what "dinner" means in many countries... In Poland we used to use the translation to English as: breakfast, dinner, supper (at least when I was a kid). But now it's more like: breakfast, lunch, dinner. Which meal did the creators actually want? For some people dinner will be "obiad" - the midday meal, and it would be closer to Scandinavian countries in time - 16-17. For others dinner could mean "kolacja", as the last meal of the day, and that one would be 19-20.
#26
In A World Where More People Obsess About Their Work Being Inherently Meaningful, I Hope That You See Your Job Relatively Close To The Left Side Of The Chart
Robert T 4 months ago
Large amounts of IT are utter BS. Developing for a UK bank, and we have idiots raising critical defects for a button colour! The amount of wasted effort with the way some companies work is unbelievable. And if you have to get involved with end-users at all, believe me, some of them couldn't find their backsides with both hands!
Load More Replies... Michelle C 4 months ago
I’m so glad my job is related to one of the jobs on the left side of the graph! My heart goes out to those who do not feel that their jobs mean anything. Always remember that you are more than your job.
Gin 4 months ago
It can depend on what the job on the right is doing it for - I was in marketing, but for charities. I always worked for organisations whose outcomes I really cared about.
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Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
As a former IT worker, I can say that whether I did or not was entirely dependent on where I was working at any given time.
Wild Cream 4 months ago
Yep, I’m in marketing and I’m starting to feel so pointless and like part of the problem in society 😂 I’m always raging at stupid ads until my boyfriend points out that I get paid to work on annoying intrusive ads. I’m planning on a career change eventually but still trying to figure out what I want to do
Gin 4 months ago
I worked in marketing for charities. Worked in animal welfare, disability sector, cancer. Maybe you could change what you 'market'? 🤷♀️
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Rich Black 4 months ago
Librarians have an exaggerated sense of worth. They should reflect on their average salary.
Jackie Lulu 4 months ago
As an IT developer, I liked to think that our purpose was to help end users work smarter, faster, easier. However as IT matured, it changed into not giving a hsite about what the users wanted or needed, and the users just threw up their hands, and I felt so useless.
#27
In places like Germany, the full retirement of the huge Baby Boomer cohort will drive pension payments up significantly. The relatively small workforce will pay for that. Young workers will increasingly dislike that. Voting behaviour might shift further away from established parties as a result.
Rtblast66 4 months ago
Shame you can't see Uk in there anymore (Brexit etc.) UK has one of the worst. And they call it a "benefit" after working all your life, then you are deemed "benificial "to have one. UK ......
Al Fun 4 months ago
Yeah, where is the UK? These are not just EU countries, they have Switzerland, Serbia, Turkey, etc… but not the UK.
Load More Replies... Paulina 4 months ago
Too bad it's the "average" again, not median or other more accurate way of presenting data. In countries with big wealth disparity, average creates a fake sense of good pensions. I can assure you, not many people in Poland get 6K in złoty (~1600€), not to mention in Euro. Most retirees have to deal with pensions about 3000-4000 zł/700-950€.
#28
This Map Shows The Number Of Dentists Per 10,000 Residents Across Europe
Daria 4 months ago
i wonder if it means dentistry is more (or less) affordable in the lighter blue areas?
Foxglove🇮🇪 4 months ago
I'd say fewer dentists= more expensive and longer waiting times for appointments
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SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
I have bad teeth. Can I move to Sweden? (FWIW, one of my great-grandmothers was full-blooded Swedish.)
#29
Look Who Just Made It Into The Top 20 Of The World’s Largest Economies. Welcome To The Top, Poland
Bartlet for world domination 4 months ago
And the smallest country with the fewest people on this list is...
Elisabeth 4 months ago
Probably the Netherlands. The average income per capita is higher than in Germany / France
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Hobby Hopper 4 months ago
It would be interesting to see this adjusted per capita, and per unit land area.
Ace 4 months ago
That's using IMF estimates, apparently. If you use the figures from the UN or the World Bank, Switzerland moves from 21 to 20 and overtakes Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago
It doesn't matter, as long as it's the same for every country. I would imagine it's in USD though.
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I had never seen the US Baby Boom been visualized in this way. Rather cool visuals. The chart assumes Baby Boomers to be born between 1946 and 1964
michael Chock 4 months ago
Looking at economic policy created at the time, it kinda is.
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 4 months ago
That's why we had so many trailers for classes in high school! And the faint purple in the 90s? That's when we had kids.
Brian Droste 4 months ago
What does the numbers on the left side represent? Some of these charts make no sense to me without an explanation.
#31
This Map Shows Europe In A Silly Scenario Where Sea Levels Decrease By 1000 Meters
Wild Cream 4 months ago
No, but I will now after googling it, thanks for the rec! “ What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is a 2014 non-fiction book by Randall Munroe in which the author answers hypothetical science questions sent to him by readers of his webcomic, xkcd.”
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Dee Rutherford 4 months ago
I think his is backwards. We’re all going to end up underwater thanks to global warming.
#32
Want To Swear But Kids Are Around? Use These Kid-Friendly Swear Words!
Wild Cream 4 months ago
I’ve been learning Russian for years, I love the idea of using “blin” as a curse 😂
Gebidozo 4 months ago
Because both French mercredi and Spanish miercoles sound similar to the words for “s**t” in their languages, respectively merde and mierda. The same principle is used in most of the other languages, e.g. the Russian blin (pancake) replaces blyad’ (w***e), etc.
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By 2050 India Will Be One United States Bigger Than China
Verena 4 months ago
We cannot afford that. Right now, 2.5 Earths would be necessary to provide a decent quality of live for all 8 billion people. This is three times more than during the glorified 1950s, when eveything seemed to be possible and still people starved.
Jane Hower 4 months ago
The covid shots are to help with that- kills young men with heart issues and lowers fertility in both sexes. Or did you not know that????????????????????
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#34
This Map Shows The Number Of Ant Species In The 50 Most "Antsy" Countries
Judes 4 months ago
Awww FFS I hate ants and I live in Australia (there was an unfortunate incident when I was about 4 involving consequences from standing on a bull ant nest).
Helen Rohrlach 4 months ago
Got bitten by one of these little f*****s the other day, put a shovel of sand down their hole. Doesn't stop them but felt much better after. Little Basterds.
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Time Traveling Back To 600 Ad Europe, Would You Be Able To Communicate With Anyone?
Petra Peitsch 4 months ago
Yeah, but won't be easy ...Also, my ancestors would be very surpried, learning, that they'll land in the middle of Europe, just 300 years later.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Well, it would be interesting to try my modern English (fluent) or my modern French (mid-level) or modern German (strong beginner) in the regions where variations of those languages were spoken in 600 CE.
Gebidozo 4 months ago
Nobody was burning anyone in 600 AD Europe, least of all as witches. In fact, the very belief in witchcraft was forbidden by the Christian authorities back then. The first persecutions of witches began in the 15th century.
Load More Replies... Paulina 4 months ago
Good thing they made that disclaimer on the left, because I was going to rage in comments about how "Slavic" is not a single language, but rather a very big group of regional languages and dialects. That region wasn't unified yet and each relatively small tribe had their own variation of the language. Later they became mixed with travel and alliances, and then divided again, when tribes turned to kingdoms and countries, and languages started to resemble and move towards what we know now.
Tucker Cahooter 4 months ago
The people producing those "Useful phrases for travellers" books would have been making a fortune
Ex-teacher 4 months ago
Except printed books won't be available for another 800+ years
Load More Replies... Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
I could probably remember maybe 10% of my OE after I'd been there a few weeks...
#36
This map shows the status of coal power in Europe as of 2024. Coal is being phased out. Now it’s time to drive down energy costs. Crucial considering the continent wants to be competitive in high end manufacturing, needs big data centers, and wants at least a bit of supply chain sovereignty.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago
Our push towards green energy is something I'm actually quite proud of the UK for. And I'm not a national pride kind of person.
WubiDubi 4 months ago
They just tried to reopen a mine. That was defeated.
Load More Replies... Uncle Schmickle 4 months ago
Phasing out coal power plants and driving down energy costs is an oxymoron.
#37
Wild Cream 4 months ago
Just like BC, Canada :) (although that’s not a country capital haha, just our provincial capital)
#38
Yet Another Map That Supports My Suspicion That Poland Is Europe’s Hottest Place To Be At The Moment. Cheaper Than Germany, On The Up Economically
Verena 4 months ago (edited)
It depends on what products this is about. If it is seasonal, locally grown food, then there is no surprise that an agricultural oriented country as Poland is cheap. Or electronics? And without relation to the local income, not very informative.
Robert T 4 months ago
Very much so. Cars in Denmark are subject to a 100% tax. Alcohol gets progressively more expensive from Germany to Denmark to Sweden to Norway - it is quite common for those near the border to go one country south in order to drink!
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Just because a place is cheap, doesn’t mean it’s a good place to live. In the U.S. the southeastern states are cheap. And they also have the worst heat and humidity, the least education, the least good healthcare, the highest rate of illness and obesity, the most religion, and the most political conservatism.
#39
Where To Pee? European Edition
Enuya 4 months ago
Exactly! It would also partially resolve problem with too long queues in women's toilets vs. no queues at all in men's.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Just make all toilets one-stall. That would solve the problem.
Søren Schilthauer 4 months ago
Don't think I've ever seem a public toilet that is uni s*x in Denmark
#40
We are being shown how people in Slovakia reference other European nations in their idioms. Germans also use the stingy Scotsman stereotype
Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
This one is useless, as the type is too small to read. I tried zooming in, but it just became pixellated.
Dariusz M. D. 4 months ago
Used to be punctual like a German train, but I heard it's not the case anymore. Sad.
Paulina 4 months ago (edited)
Couple from Poland: 1. "Czeski błąd" - Czech mistake - a typo or other mistake made by using something very similar/close by. 2. "Czeski film" - Czech movie - no one knows what's going on or things are impossible to understand. 3. "Francuski piesek" - French doggy - being unreasonably delicate & fastidious. 4. "Siedzi jak święty turecki/jak na tureckim kazaniu" - sits like a Turkish saint/like during a Turkish sermon - to be extremely miserable (showing it with face and posture) but not saying anything; typically used to reprimand individuals that act like they are being punished by simply being at the place/event.
#41
The very low birth rates across Europe lock in future population decline now. The Mediterranean countries will be pretty empty. Well, except for the summer months when everyone still comes to Italy and co for a holiday.
A.J. 4 months ago
I like how they exclude uk from Europe every time but includes turkey, one is like 100% in Europe but excluded because of politics and the other one is like 5% but included to not offending it.
Ace 4 months ago
Yes, I don't see the logic either. Switzerland is similarly often excluded, as it's not EU, fair enough, but to include one and not the other makes no sense.
Load More Replies... Enuya 4 months ago (edited)
In our country (Poland) we have very low birth rates in big part because we are "Catholic" (I use quotation marks as many people are Catholics only in statistcs). We have almost no legal abortions, most importantly you cannot have a legal abortion if foetus has congenital defects, even if they're lethal. Pair it with bad economy and lack of support for disabled people. We're afraid that we'll have no means to raise a child, especially a disabled one, thus we do everything to avoid pregancy at all.
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Holidaymakers In The Mediterranean Should Study This Map Carefully To Impress (Annoy?) Their Friends And Family With Island Related Geography Trivia!
#43
The Great War, Wwi, Changed The Map Of Europe Significantly
Ace 4 months ago
Somewhat misleading, many of these shifts were not a direct result of the war. But the crazy artificial borders and countries immediately pre-war gives a good idea about why the war came about in the first place,
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
Well, a lot of this was due to the collapse of the Austo-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, directly resulting from the outcome of the war. The changes in Russia were due to the Bolshevik Revolution, which was also very much connected to the war, in that the war was putting huge strains on the working classes in Russia at the time.
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 4 months ago
for, technically, being on the winning side, Russia sure lost a lot of territory
Chrissie Anit 4 months ago
Because everybody had to give back their stolen Polish parts to re-build Poland.
Load More Replies... nm 4 months ago
After the 1st Balkan war Bulgaria was not satisfied with its gains and attacked its 2 ex-allies to get more. She lost the 2nd Balkan war and almost all the gains it had. Joined the Central Powers and lost even more. In WW2 Joined the Axis, but didn't lost more territory because the Soviets saved it.
Foxglove🇮🇪 4 months ago
I knew Austria-Hungary was huge, but I hadn't realised Czechoslovakia and Poland basically didn't exist before 1918 or so...
Michael Largey 4 months ago (edited)
Poland existed way before 1918. At times it was a large and powerful nation, ruling down to now what is the Ukraine. But at the start of the 20th Century it had been temporarily swallowed up by Russia and Germany in a series of wars.
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Most Of Europe Is Shrinking As Is. Without Migration The Shrinkage Would Be Huuuge By 2100
Jane Hower 4 months ago
Migration of Islam will be the downfall of all who do it. It's happening already. Sadly.
Ace 4 months ago
If you believe that immigration is a problem, the solution would be to remove the inequality and poverty that leads to it. What's interesting is that for the most part it's the more wealthy right-wing voters, whose policies make the gaps even wider, that object the most.
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#46
That's One Way Of Saying That Poland Really Saw Impressive Economic Growth In Recent Years
Susie Elle 4 months ago
Well, I mean, you're including some very poor and/or conflicted countries in this equation
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Yeah, but how did they do it? The means are just as important as the ends.
#47
Wow. That Puts Market Sizes Into Perspective
#48
This Map Overlays The 49th Parallel (Essentially The Us–canada Border) On Europe
Hobby Hopper 4 months ago
It goes to show how far north Europe really is. I hope the Gulf Stream doesn't collapse and plunge Europe into cold weather like they're predicting. Never mind being uncomfortable, it would be an agricultural and economic disaster of mind boggling proportions.
This_comes_to_mind 4 months ago
The 49th parallel is the US-Canadian border in the west of both countries. A large percentage of the Canadian population lives south of the 49th (and that would be in the east).
Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
I keep saying this every time someone says that the entire US is air conditioned. Yeah, because we're MUCH more southerly than most of Europe. I live in Massachusetts, one of the northernmost states. We're at the same latitude as Barcelona and Rome. It's been at least 32ºC for the past couple weeks.
#49
Good News, Australia! The Motherland Still Likes Us!
Ace 4 months ago
Saddened to see the US still so high up the list, and the EU as an entity so far down.
Danielle 4 months ago
Ah yes. I was looking at it and thinking 'who is calling Australia a threat?!' but sport is clearly the answer. Same with NZ.
Load More Replies... Jane Hower 4 months ago
Why Isreal? Oh, that's right, all the f....ing Muslims that moved there.
Toothless Feline 4 months ago
Interesting how opinions on Israel are so balanced across the five categories compared to all the others.
#50
How Long Is Your Summer School Break?
Sofia Monteiro 4 months ago
This map is showing the total number of holiday weeks throughout the year, not summer holidays. In Portugal students have 12 weeks of holidays in Summer, 2 for Christmas, 1 for Carnaval ans 2 for Easter, ence the 15.
Enuya 4 months ago
What's up with Germany? Why sometimes they've long holidays and sometimes short?
Jesse 4 months ago
The federal states do things differently. In Bavaria, we get two weeks at Pentecost and another week in February, that totals to two weeks more than up in e.g. North Rhine-Westphalia.
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#51
Now That European Ice Cream Season Is In Full Swing, This Map Seems Like Essential Knowledge
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
These are all owned by the Unilever brand. In Brazil we have Ola also, but Kibon was the biggest brand for icecream through the 90s, before Unilever bought them too. In the USA, you are not safe from Unilever either. They own Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Klondike, Magnum, Popsicle, and Talenti.
Trisec Tebeakesse 4 months ago
"Season?" Ice cream season? What is this of which you speak? (I'm a New Englander.) 24/7/365.
#52
Europe Felt The Heat In 2024. Ok, Iceland Didn’t
#54
Gay Marriage Is Slowly Moving Eastward
martin734 4 months ago
Can I just point something out here. Gay marriage was legalised in Great Britain in 2014, it was legalised in the whole of the UK in 2020.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago
Yeah, it was Northern Ireland dragging us backwards, as usual. England and Wales in 2014, I think Scotland were before that, but NI not until 2020 (and even then, I think it was forced through by Westminster while Stormont was in stalemate).
Load More Replies... Morten Jul Lægaard 4 months ago
In 1989, as the first in the world, Denmark allowed marriage between same-s*x couples. In 2012 the law gave full rights as with mixed couples.
#55
Life Expectancy At Birth In Europe As Of 2024. It Helps To Be Rich And To Eat Healthy
#56
A Government being excited about their own ideas is normal. This chart made me laugh though. The White House’s economic impact assessment of their Big Beautiful Bill is comically out of whack with all major economic forecasters.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 months ago
Please note how 3 out of six peak at the 2026 midterms. That is deliberate. The worst parts are scheduled for next year.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
The current White House is comically out of whack, period. Well, it would be comical if it wasn’t so dangerous.
General Anaesthesia 4 months ago
Tax relief for billionaires is permanent, tax "relief" for everyone else expires after the next presiduncial election.
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#57
This Map Looks Like The Setup For Europe’s Weirdest Cop Show
Meowzers! 4 months ago
I did a quick search online and it's allegedly true that in certain areas public urination, either on land or sea, is banned and that harsh fines are handed out if you are caught doing so.
Load More Replies... Wang Zhuang 4 months ago (edited)
If it's true, how they hell could they enforce it? Assuming that people are urinating while in the water :P
#59
Time To Enrage Most Of Europe With A Single Map?
Verena 4 months ago
Living in Germany and the Netherlands and staying frequently in France and Scandinavia, I would say that the Dutch are closer to the Germans than French. I worked in many countries, including Poland and Turkey. Both countries share a lot of similarities in social aspects
Vincent Bevort 4 months ago
The line should be drawn between North and south Netherlands. The south is historically more oriented on France and the north on Germany.
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#60
Just after you cross the Alps (🚗🚴🐘) into Italy, you enter the Italian Motor Valley. The funnest and fastest Italian engineering marvels are friendly neighbours here.
#61
Good To See The French Still Being Skinny
Marc 4 months ago
Map is missing Pacific nations on the left. Tonga and Nauru are the most overweight nations at 70% and 63%.
Johnnynatfan 4 months ago
I thought the same thing but those are not high income nations. This chart focuses on just high income nations.
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Moving Enigma 4 months ago
Try reading it again, this is nothing to do with income.
Load More Replies... TMMITW 4 months ago
Puerto Rico is part of the United States and should not be measured separately.
Wild Cream 4 months ago
Was reading today about how 1/3 of Canadians are now obese :( this is not me fat shaming, I’m just sad our country’s health is declining. We’re proud of having better-quality food and healthcare than the US lol, I hope we can continue that.
#62
The China–north Korea–russia Tripoint Must Be One Of The Weirder Borders Out There
#63
Excess mortality in the EU during the Covid years was 12 per cent. This means we've seen 12 per cent more deaths than we would've statistically expected. The Swedish approach wasn't as lackadaisical as we make it out to be. Targeted protection of the elderly saw super high compliance. Sweden's Covid approach remains highly respected
#64
Michigander Remains The Funniest Us Demonym
Robert Benson 4 months ago
My dad always referred to himself and family as Mainiacs. It seemed appropriate.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
When I went to summer camp in Maine we called the people there Maniacs.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
How did “Hoosier” not end up being the funniest? I think that’s funnier than “Michigander.”
Wild Cream 4 months ago
Saw a Reddit thread where a lady was considering naming her baby daughter “Floridian” 😂
Michael Largey 4 months ago
People from Indiana are called Hoosiers. No one knows why. In fact, no one even has even a plausible guess.
#65
The Electric Car Boom Continues To Boom
Wild Cream 4 months ago
Nope, this is legit. North America is very far behind Asia when it comes to EV adoption, and China has a lot more EVs than both North America and Europe. They’re ahead in automotive tech .
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Enjoy Your Summer Holidays My Dear European Friends!
Wild Cream 4 months ago
I prefer taking my holidays in Sept-Nov because you can get great deals on flights 😊 all my international travel has been done in those months with the exception of the US because I used to live 20 mins from the border.
#67
troufaki13 4 months ago
In Minoan Crete they had games called tavrokathapsia (ταυροκαθάψια) that involved bulls. Tavros=bull
Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
But they weren't trying to k**l the bull with spears and horses. The games involved jumping over the horns of the bull. Gymnastics with a high risk factor.
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London Continues Turning Itself Into A Bicycle City!
#69
It’s Getting Warmer In Europe. In Case You Want To Travel Through Germany, This Map Might Be Of Use
Meowzers! 4 months ago
German wine regions. The title on the map says what it is.
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#71
You Are Not Nostalgic About The 90s, 80s, Or 70s. You Are Nostalgic About Your Own Youth - Whenever That Was
Enuya 4 months ago
Middle thick line is moment of birth. Every thin line is 10 years - on the left before birth, on the right after birth. If you were born in 2000 and think that best music was around 1980, your answer will be placed two lines to the left. Most people feel like life was the best when they were 10-20
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
Trust me when I say that no one in the world thinks, "The most reliable news reporting was when I was 8 years old."
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
The economy was better before I was born. TV is better now, than any time in history. Best national team was during my teenage and early adult years. Best movies... I don't know, but they do suck now. Best radio?? Radio sucks now but it sucked when I was a kid too. Most moral society??? Umm.... we've never had one of those.
#72
BeesEelsAndPups 4 months ago
Fun fact, only five countries have purple in their flag, if you include Bolivia's Wiphala flag, which is a co-national flag. But due to the traditional cost of purple dye, it was only ever used as a main color of one nation. The Sasanian Empire, an empire based in Iran in the 3rd-7th century CE.
#73
The wider the gap, the harder to find a partner. This should in turn further drive down birth rates. On top of this, the UK now has a reverse gender pay gap for young workers. Considering that women still prefer an equally or higher earning partner, birth rates should take yet another hit
Wild Cream 4 months ago
Single men who believe they’re owed a woman are a very dangerous group
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Share Of European Countries’ Population Living In The Capital City. Rome And Berlin Are Relatively Small Within Their Country - At Least When Compared To London, Paris, And Madrid
#75
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago
Sod that! Tax the wales, k**l the rich!
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 4 months ago (edited)
Elon Musk can go back to Africa and never come back. EDIT: Also under Musk it should say "Government Subsidies" Not EVs and Aerospace.
Aloha Uprising 4 months ago
America had a marginal tax rate of 94% between 1944-45. So in order to net 1 million dollars after taxes, you would need to earn nearly 17 million dollars. This made it extremely difficult if not impossible for even the wealthy to earn 1 million dollars. It didn’t go nearly far enough.
michael Chock 4 months ago
The fact they needed this and people still became rich, just shows American culture is Exploitation culture.
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Huddo's sister 4 months ago
Does everyone hate their billionaires as much as Australia hates Gina Rinehart and America hates Elon Musk?
Helen Rohrlach 4 months ago
I don't hate Gina Rinehart, but I don't like her. I am from Western Australia and that makes a difference.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Worst People By Each Continent. There, I fixed the headline for you.
Michael Largey 4 months ago
Let me introduce you to a fellow who goes by the name of Donald J. Trump ...
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
I'll tell you what, Africa. You can have Elongated Muskrat back so you can brag about having the wealthiest person in the world. No, really. Please, we insist. Take him back!
#76
With Italy and Japan we have two big economies where over a quarter of the population is aged 65+. Traditional models of aged care and state guaranteed retirement funding are about to collapse. Time to figure out new models. Younger nations have time and can copy successful approaches of the old nations (and dearly hope that they come up with something smart fast).
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
Let immigrants in. And/or make it easier for people to have children. Up to you. 🤷🏻♀️ You’re going to have to do one or the other, if you don’t like the current situation.
#77
This map categorizes European forests according to their use. Unmanaged forests are super rare. Finland and Sweden are timber plantations. France has created Landes de Gascogne, a match box forest on the Atlantic coast. Britain got rid of their forests altogether.
Gin 4 months ago
Old growth forests, also known as ancient woodlands, are estimated to cover only 2.5% of the UK's land area. While the UK has seen an increase in overall woodland cover in recent years, the remaining ancient woodlands are a precious and dwindling resource
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Wyrdwoman 4 months ago
'Britain got rid of their forests altogether'??? Did we though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forests_in_the_United_Kingdom
WindySwede 4 months ago
236 000 sq kilometers in Sweden. 31 380 square kilometres in UK according to Wikipedia.
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Michael Largey 4 months ago
This is more about the embargo of Iran over nuclear weapons than the international oil market.
#79
This Map Might Be Bananas But The Word Keeps Changing More Than I Would’ve Expected
#80
Across Most Of The World, The Us Is Now Seen Less Favorably Than Just A Year Ago. The Exceptions Are Worth Noting: Israel, India, Nigeria, South Africa, And Turkey
michael Chock 4 months ago (edited)
Of course the seedy underbelly of Nigeria would love the increasing amount of easily brainwashed people in the US.
#81
This chart shows what baby names peaked in each decade in the US. The postwar Larry boom is long gone, the Jennifer-hype of the 70s and 80s died down, but Oliver is still on the rise
Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
When Deborah peaked as a name it was spelled properly as Deborah. Debra is a far more modern version.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 4 months ago
I think Betty is due to make a comeback. It’s a cute name!
#82
Wild Cream 4 months ago
Assuming this is US data. It’s so sad. Can you imagine making $7 an hour today? I make $25/hr and I’m a low-level employee haha
Nikki Sevven 4 months ago
The federal minimum wage remains $7.25/hour, which is just at the poverty line. However, 18 states plus Washington DC have increased their minimum wage up to $16.50/hour. Not surprisingly, the states that have condemned their workers to poverty are all red states. And those of us who live in blue states are really tired of supporting them.
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Try graphing median wages VS actual median rent (the rent prices they use for inflation is what a homeowner would be willing to pay to rent their own home)
#83
Share of the working age (25-64) population that holds at least a bachelor’s degree by country. In the 40% hold academic credentials. Super high considering the population size of the US and the extreme debt that people go into for degrees.
#84
16 countries are home to over 100 million people. 51% of countries officially recognized by the UN are smaller than 10 million residents. 36 countries are smaller than 1 million people.
Kim Kermes 4 months ago
San Bernardino County, the largest in area in the US, is also larger in area than a number of countries.
Wild Cream 4 months ago
My province is larger than a lot of countries. Heck, I live on Vancouver Island, and the Island itself is the same size or larger than a quite few a lil countries
#85
Sure, big parts of our healthcare systems are in need of reform but please keep in mind what wonderful progress medicine and pharmaceuticals have given humanity as a whole in the last 100-150 years.
michael Chock 4 months ago
This is very misleading. The infant mortality rate was AWFUL and has significantly improved with vaccinations, public health education and safety standards. If you only graph mortality of people over 10 years old (or even 5). The graph is much flatter, and in some regions it has dropped.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago (edited)
Exactly. This is a great example of lies, d**n lies, and statistics.
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By now you would've read how New York City voted. Have you seen the clear geographic division of votes yet? Countless cities around the world are evenly geographically divided in their political leanings.
#88
Poland-Czechoslovakia Needed A Cooler Name. Just Sayin’…
Ace 4 months ago
Ooops. In any case, the Franco-British Union union was propose, by Churchill of all people, in 1940, in an effort to keep France from capitulating to the Germans. Came quite close to actually happening too.
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This Map Shows The Radioactive Fallout In The Us From Nuclear Testing. The First Test, Trinity, In New Mexico Is Visible
#90
I Guess It’s Truly The Heartland Of The Us?!
Kyle Simonson 4 months ago
Some really bad AI made this map or someone who can't read a map. Wisconsin, Illinois And Indiana all have shores on a Great Lake, Wisconsin on two Great Lakes.
sofacushionfort 4 months ago
And so, Nebraska Admirals are a thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Admiral
#91
This Map Shows When (If Ever) Asian Nations Partook At The Fifa Football World Cup
MrLiesegang 4 months ago
Not correct, it's a map when they participate the last time. Japan and South Korea participate a couple of times.
#92
Wonderfully detailed map shows the Human Development Index across Europe. Concentration of development in Central Europe generally and within the big cities within each individual country
Gin 4 months ago
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. A country scores a higher level of HDI when the lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the gross national income GNI (PPP) per capita is higher.
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Minor Correction: Skateboarding Seniors Are Cool As Heck And The Chart Should Point Up Again!
Wild Cream 4 months ago
Oh I remember Juul 😂 I had like 20 lying around my house and “where’s my juul” was my theme song. I can’t believe that was only like 5 years ago, does Juul even exist anymore?
#94
Chinese Factories Would Get To Sell Heaps More American Flags Once The Us Take In Another State Or One State Defects
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 4 months ago
They're lucky to have a nice round number of states now, because some of those early ones with weird numbers look ugly as sin. Also, why did they not do three rows of seven for 21 stars?!
Michael Largey 4 months ago
The blue rectangle would have been too wide and too short.
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