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30 Unusual Maps People Shared On This Group That Might Change Your Perspective On Things
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For many of us, cartography day in geography or history class meant a quick nap. With our eyes open, we’d dream of all the delicious stuff we were gonna eat after school, of music we’d play on the Walkman, of a message we received the other day from that cutie…
To bring back our long-lost excitement for hard pieces of data, aka maps, plans, and geographic drawings, we're gonna need to start from the very best of them. Luckily, there’s a whole online community on Reddit dedicated to the most unusual charts of geographic areas that took maps to a whole new level.
From mapping "October" in European languages to mapping an eagle’s track over a period of twenty years, these incredible examples will surely put the world into a completely new perspective.
Who knows, you may well unleash your inner cartographer and become among 1.1 million like-minded members of the maps subreddit. In that case, you may need some more cartographical goodness with 41 maps that portray lesser-known facts about America.
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#1
An Image Of GPS Tracking Of Multiple Wolves In Six Different Packs Around Voyageurs National Park Shows How Much The Wolf Packs Avoid Each Other's Range
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Holy crap this is interesting. I think I'm a map person now.
Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
I’ve always loved maps! They give us such great information.
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Rick Elliott 5 years ago
That's because wolves mark the edges of their territories so different packs don't stray into another pack's territory. Watch movie "Never Cry Wolf"!
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#2
To Increase Local Tourism, Lithuania Has Made A Map With Magnets That You Can Only Find In Corresponding Cities
k1ddkanuck 5 years ago
Ooof. Mine (in Canada), would take up an entire wall ;)
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Henry Cheves 5 years ago
Darn it, my OCD just kicked up, and Americans aren't allowed to travel to basically anywhere during COVID.
Pieter Staes 5 years ago
I've been to quite a few places yet. Beautiful country. My favourite is Ignalina.
Paulina Petrauskaitė 5 years ago
i got them all! if anyone is wondering they’re 1€ a magnet (some are 0,5)
Elise Telrip 5 years ago
A brand of chicken breast in France did the same with french department but we had to buy them to know which one of them it was and there are 101 department ! It was for collectors and chicken eaters
#3
Occupied Bald Eagle Nests In Wisconsin. 1974 vs. 2019. Growth Credited To The Clean Water Act
Amalie Plougmann 4 years ago (edited)
Lol, I see this is 5 months ago. #GoBiden
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Katy McMouse 5 years ago
When I was a kid, bald eagles were on the endangered species list and I pretty much figured I'd never, ever see one. I live on Lake Erie, in Pennsylvania, and for the past decade they've made a comeback. I saw one for the first time fly very low over my house just the other day and it was utterly amazing. He was a monster (in size) and I might have squealed like a little kid for about 5 minutes. It's astonishing what one creature can do to my inner child!
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
In raptors (eagles, hawks, kites, etc.) the females are larger than the males. I watched a pair of Peregrine Falcons do an hour of pair-bonding flight after fledging four babies, and she was two-thirds larger than he was. It was really striking.
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Kristin Ingersoll 5 years ago (edited)
And Trump decimated The Clean Water Act in April. Hopefully President Biden will correct this before the eagles are killed off AGAIN.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Biden is going to be spending a LOT of his first year in office undoing the damage of the 🍊🍄💩!
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
In Germany, it would be quite similar with our White Tailed Eagles, except the reason they have a huge comeback is that we banned a certain herbicide from use, which accumulates in the food-chain and weakened the egg-shells. We now have, in appropriate habitats, no shortage of our largest birds anymore! And they're getting more. Oh, I might add that there'd been a rehabitation-project that bred the eagles in captivity and then let them free to re-popularize the areas. It was a huge success, and we have a nest each year at our city and so far, the pair has brought up 2 little ones each year (5th year this year).
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
That’s what happened in the U.S. as well. DDT was to blame—it made the shells very thin and when the parents would roost on them, they would break. Eagles and condors (a very large vulture) were the worst hit.
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Deborah Schmehr 5 years ago
I was in junior high in 1974. I remember learning that bald eagles were almost extinct in the wild, and that we would almost certainly never see one outside a zoo, or on film. Not one of us had ever seen one in person. Now, I can drive down a rural road at dawn or dusk, and see, in the wild, with my very own eyes, bald eagles!! We CAN make a difference in what happens to our world!
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
Now if the Clean Soil Act gets some purchase in congress, companies can't throw waste out into ponds, desiccate and throw it in the general environment
Cheryl Wilcox 5 years ago
You mean the clean water act that was just trashed by the current administration?
Robin Huff 5 years ago
Yup. Along with the Clean Water Act and virtually every environmental protection gained over the last 50-80 years.
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Mark Kraabel 5 years ago
Haven't read all the comments, but isn't the driving reason for the recovery the banning of DDT?
M O'Connell 5 years ago
It's probably better. DDT has been banned for so long it would be highly doubtful anyone would manufacture it, even if the grumpy-old-party repealed its ban.
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To find out more about this amusing Reddit community by the name r/MapP**n, Bored Panda reached out to its creator Patrick McGranaghan, who started the subreddit in 2011 while living in Taiwan.
Patrick said he has always been a map geek: “I wanted people to share those maps so that they are easy to find and discuss.”
It turns out, he works as a land surveyor in Colorado and is a devoted member of several map societies across the nation, including the North American Cartographic Information Society, Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps, and Rocky Mountain Map Society, to name just a few.
#4
Tracking Of An Eagle Over A 20 Year Period
Ika 5 years ago
Eagle uses thermal flows to fly up effortlessly. The way it works is that the sun shines on the ground, it produces hot air above it, hot air weighs less than the cold air and it goes upwards. Eagle finds these spots on top of the ground and uses them. This doesn't happen on the surface of the water, since heating up the water needs more energy.
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Dimitri Nescio 5 years ago (edited)
The description is incorrect. These are migration paths of _several_ eagles provided by Russian ornithologists.
Elise van Looij 5 years ago
Those Russian ornithologists tracked several eagles and the maps they produced showed each with their own color. The project ran out of money when some eagles flew as far as Pakistan and their transmitters racked up huge roaming fees, according to an article on the BBC website https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781
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BeazleBug 5 years ago
What they didn't mention is that it was a 1982 AMC Eagle driven by a migrant worker.
Sawdust 5 years ago
It probably still remembers that time he almost got lost in southeastern Khazahkstan. :-)
#5
When A Band Announces A World Tour
Clever Dog 5 years ago
this should be when AMERICAN bands announce a world tour. British bands tour all of Europe and if big enough the US, far east and Oz. Its only American bands than think America is the world, much like many American people.
Anne Hanna 5 years ago
agreed!!! But there is one orchestra that travels all over the world namely Johan Straus Orchestra I believe it's called and it's form the Netherlands, it is not a band.
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Ani Archeron 5 years ago
"in 7 years we might" - thats how long it'll be until my Green Day/Fall Out Boy/Wheezer tickets are postponed til :(
Johane Moller 5 years ago
As a person living in South Africa I can 100% confirm this is true. :(
El Dee 5 years ago
I remember Iron Maiden decided to do a tour of places that bands never get to, they bought their own plane and, with their lead singer being a qualified pilot, they toured all these places who turned out in their droves to see them..
Destini Mattocks 5 years ago
One of the MANY things I love about Iron Maiden...also that they seriously rock!
Load More Replies... Kate 5 years ago
World Tour should really be over the USA only; in Canada we're the same as Europe, maybe three major cities and that's it.
#6
Japan, How Big It Is In Reality?
Theodore Theodora 5 years ago
Okay, mind blown; it's literally twice as big as I'd imagined given typical maps. Thank you, person who made it!
H Edwards 5 years ago
Visit thetruesize.com and you can do this with any country, it's really fun.
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Brian Strickfaden 5 years ago
When I was a young rocket engineer, I got the chance to work in Japan for several years on the Japanese space program to launch weather and communication satellites. We had a great class taught by a professor from the University of California Sacramento about Japan. He said that the islands of Japan were physically about the same size as the state of California. In 1977 the population of America was about 200 million people and the population of Japan was about 100 million people. He said that Japan had about 40% usable land - there's a large part that's swamp land or the Aleutian island chain. California by comparison has about 60% usable land. The Sierra Nevada mountains and the dessert occupy the remainder. I always remember his final statement: Take half the entire population of the United States and move them all to California. Now take away 1/2 the usable land. That's how crowded Japan is.
Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
That’s a really interesting perspective...especially since I’m a Californian!
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Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 5 years ago
The bottom right most red dot of an island, still part of Tokyo.
Useless Panda 5 years ago
Different map projections screw up sizes a lot, the standard Mercator projection for example makes Greenland look like the size of Africa while it's actually much smaller. Consequences of try to fit a round Earth onto a flat map.
Shane Peebles 5 years ago
still smaller than Ontario with more people in it than all of Canada
Yeah, you heard 5 years ago
This is only helpful if I know how big the US "really" is, which I don't, unless it's next to a map of Europe.
Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
That U.S. is roughly 3000 miles/5000 km east to west and 1000 miles/1600 km north to south.
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Jeff Diamond 5 years ago
Landmass is roughly the size of California. Farmland and liveable land is about 2/3 that.
The creator said that the title r/MapP**n followed the trend on Reddit at the time when “there were a lot of subreddits with a *-porn suffix.” He explained further: “This refers to pictures of innocuous things like nature, architecture, or engineering marvels in a beautiful way. It was not meant to be sexual. The internet at the time was a lot more relaxed and using that term was funny.”
“In the years since the culture on the internet has taken a much more puritan bias and some people don't like that name,” Patrick said.
However, he assured us that “the goal of the brand has not changed, though: it's a place to share and discuss beautiful maps.”
#7
The Earth Being Centered On Great Britain Is Arbitrary, So Here's A Map Centered On New Zealand
Jyri Hakola 5 years ago
To be honest, only the Centering of 0-meridian to britain is arbitary.. location of 0 latitude at the ecquator is quite natural selection.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
I think it should be centered on Nalanda University, Rajgir, Bihar, India (ancient center of scholarship). That would put the center meridian more or less in the middle of the largest landmass, and would put most of the world right in the center, rather than the British way that puts an ocean in the middle.
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Rob Williams 5 years ago
Actually the maps are centred on the Prime Meridian which just happens to run through London.
Girlene Mouchet 4 years ago
But the Prime Meridian is an arbitrary construct
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Daniel Clarke 5 years ago
It's not arbitrary. It was a definite choice made by people whose maps survive and pervade.
Girlene Mouchet 4 years ago
Pervasive is a good choice. The British controlled so much of the land surface of the globe
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Bunny Wood 5 years ago
YES AT LAST WE ARE IN CHARGE. HAHAHA actually I do get sick of world maps that leave NZ off
Gerard Gallagher 5 years ago
It’s not arbitrary, it’s because the 0 degree meridian goes through London. Ever heard of GMT?
Christina Eneroth (Eneroth3) 5 years ago
Having the equator in the middle is not arbitrary though.
Girlene Mouchet 4 years ago
Arbitrary - the British were masters of the Seas, and controlled much of Earth's land mass
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Now my brain hurts. I've grown up with the conditioning of the USA in the center and Asia split in half.
Pobin Rice 5 years ago
I think you’ll find it’s not centred on Great Britain actually I think you’ll find that actually in the centre of that map is Africa which is quite often misrepresented in a much smaller size so let’s not go there thank you very much with your hatred of colonialism just because we gave you history doesn’t mean you have to hate it
#8
Cheese Map Of Europe
Marie Cadavieco 4 years ago
Or Cheshire, or Lancashire, or Lincolnshire Poacher, or Leicester, Double Gloucester, oh dear dreadfully sparse. Europe is the true home of cheese, every country has so many more.
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Cristina Alves Moreira 5 years ago
The most well know cheese in Portugal is not in the map. Queijo da Serra
Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
Cristina Alves Moreira (what a regal-sounding name!), tell me about this cheese. Yes, I could look it up in Wikipedia, but they likely wouldn’t tell me the most important stuff.
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McLickerSnitch 4 years ago
It's not a crust, it's a wax coating to keep it fresh.
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Strahd Ivarius 5 years ago
There are about 327 kind of cheeses missing for France... (and don't start me on things like 'Caprice des Dieux')
Henry Cheves 5 years ago
I finally know where the maggot cheese is from! (Hint: In that big sea in the bottom middle. Casu Marzu.)
karin s. 5 years ago
Then maybe you are also interested in the Milbenkaese from the east of Germany (a place in Saxony-Anhalt) which contains living mites.
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#9
The United States Of America: Alaskan Perspective
When it comes to submissions, they come in every form and style. “From historical maps showing ancient borders, to funny memes and transit maps. People also post imaginary maps of places that they create in their minds.”
In fact, every kind of map imaginable has been posted to this subreddit. Patrick said that linguistic maps are popular, as well as maps that re-imagine state and national borders. There are also maps of asteroids and maps of routes of famous explorers.
“One of my favorite interactions is when a map is posted of an obscure place and someone in the comments says they live there or has a story about that place.”
#10
50 Percent Of Canadians Live South Of The Red Line
Alex Weldon 5 years ago
Turns out those people south of the red line are pretty thirsty.
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Daria B 5 years ago
I believe it's the same thing that attracts a cat to a laptop ♡
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Joshua Seaman 5 years ago
I still don't know why the Toronto Raptors' slogan is "We The North", when they live further South than the Portland Trail Blazers and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Jade Lynn - Panda's Brat 4 years ago
It's in the Canadian Anthem "With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free!"
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Miles Remmel 5 years ago
It you move it a little bit north-- to include Vancouver-- That amount goes WAY up...
Sakura Takashi 4 years ago
so what is with the rest of the place is it just woods or something that goes on for miles and miles or is it a crap tone of factories that nobody can live near?
TheCanadianShark 4 years ago
There are cities but it’s mainly plains, lakes, and forest
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#11
Each Section Has 10% Of The World's Population
Patricia Purtell 5 years ago
But holding 10% of world’s population. Sooooo those areas of S Asia and China must be heavily populated.
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Jessica Julian 4 years ago
Together, India and China have about 2/3 of the world's population...the rest of us share the last 1/3.
ISuckAtLife 4 years ago
I think you mean 1/3 is China and India's, and 2/3 is the rest of us.
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cassie monro 2 years ago
how does all of north america and half of south America COMBINED only have 10%
#12
List Of Countries Mentioned Or Referred In The Bible
Nicola Roberts 5 years ago
Wow, I never knew this. Unlikely Jesus was fair skinned, blond and blue eyed....
Capelli rosa e patate 5 years ago
Yeah he was from Nazareth, and the Bible states he looked no different than the average man there. Brown skin, brown eyes, brown hair, and probably on the short side too. Those paintings of a Swedish Jesus are just stupid. 😁
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Losferatu 5 years ago
This a LIE! It doesn't show 'Mericuh, and everyone knows Jesuse loves 'Mericuh!
Lyra Fortune 5 years ago
Oh honestly people, stop shaming peoples religions, and stop downvoting due to religious beliefs.
Sean Cannon 2 years ago
i downvote all stupid superstition. and this whining plea to stop being mean to stupid superstition.
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דרור שטרן 5 years ago
Why do people here think that if these countries were mentioned in the bible it has to do with Jesus? Facts: -Jesus was born in Nazareth, which is located in northern Israel of today. The population there is mostly brown-eyed with white/dark skin. -Other countries were also mentioned in the bible with no correlation to Jesus.
Dave P 5 years ago
Actually this is false. Bible (just the Jewish one) mentions Scythia (Western Russia), Germany as well, it says "Ibera" but here they only used spain, same with Arabia and forgetting parts of it. WHere today is Afghanistand and Pakistan is mentioned. Other parts of Europe are mentioned as well in several different books. It also mentiones vague exotic lands to the very far east, beyond India as well. Lastly Bible makes references to sub-sahara africa as well, just doesnt specify which parts. So really the only places not mentioned is the America's, and even so, some theologians in the 1500's thought it may have mentioned it as it defines a land as being to the far west beyond the Med Sea.
Jacqueline Pearl 4 years ago
I can’t believe we are even having this discussion. Like today, the color of ones skin matters little compared to the content of his heart. Jesus was/is a symbol of the type of person we all need to be more like.
Maria Persson 4 years ago
Exatly. But for some people, race and skin colour is everything.
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Ilze Peimane 5 years ago
IDK if this is true. Jordan is nota marked, but the city Gadara, mentioned in Bible, is called Umm Quais today and is located in Jordan.
Har Hen 5 years ago
The (Hebrew) Bible describes parts and peoples in Jordania. Shouldnt Jorden be added?
Cheryl Korchak 4 years ago
The area that is now Jordan is colored red, it is included.
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Especially in a time like now, “when the pandemic prevents us from traveling, maps are a way that we can travel without leaving our home,” the map enthusiast said.
#13
The Longest Possible Train Travel In The World
Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago
For those wanting more info, this is the original post on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/e5fgmc/the_longest_possible_train_travel_in_the_world/f9jsddv/
Bunny Wood 5 years ago
Luxury. Used to walk twice as far to work in a mine in the pouring rain...
Lynne Harbison 4 years ago
Uphill, through knee deep snow, carrying a heavy rucksack, with no hat, gloves or coat. 😥
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#14
Where Penguins Are Found Naturally In The World
Gerrit 5 years ago
The map is not quite correct. On Antarctica, penguins also live only in the coastal region and not as far inland.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
ALSO THERE ARE PENGUINS THAT ARE SMALL AND BLUE AND THEY'RE CALLED BLUE FAIRY PENGUINS I RECOMMEND YOU LOOK THEM UP THEY'RE THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO SURVIVE download-5...d8e88.jpeg 
Deirdre Jane Southworth 5 years ago
Yes,when I lived in Lima, Peru, I saw a penguin walking past my house!
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
I live here I've always taken penguin for granted...you can go out and watch them going out to sea or coming back at the end of the day. Waddle waddle indeed :)
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Henry Simpson 5 years ago
I lived in Brazil for 2 years in the 1960s and spent 6 months of that time in the town of Blumenau. On one occasion I traveled to the coastal village of Itajai, a short distance away. At the beach there we saw a number of penguins swimming in to the shores. So I know that they travel at least that far north along the eastern coast of South America. Blumenau is about 2300 km north of Bahia Blanca.
Rudi Kramp 4 years ago
Here is a more detailed map: http://www.penguins.cl/penguins-region.htm
Lynne Harbison 4 years ago
Here in Tauranga, New Zealand, we have 1,300 little blue penguins reside around Mauao...a dormant volcano at the end of a peninsula. Only 10kms from our hone. Regularly see orca, dolphins..,and stingrays too. Paradise.
#15
Size Comparison Between Australia And The United States
Major Krunch 4 years ago
Notice the great similarity between Nebraska and central Oz - as in EMPTY!
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Xiaoxi Lou 5 years ago
Hey! Why isn't Melbourne on the Australian map!! ;) Just cos we're in lockdown....doesn't mean we're not there anymore!!! ;(
Christopher Seaton 5 years ago
Pity they didn't include the Australian state borders. You think Texas is big? Ha! Try Western Australia for size - draw a line from just to the left of where Regina is, straight south. Everything west of that line is the state of Western Australia.
Wendy Cayless 5 years ago
If Western Australia was a country, it would be the ninth biggest in the world.
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Caroline Farquhar 5 years ago
When I was a travel agent specializing in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, I used to use this example to show people how impossible it was to “take in Australia in a few days”. Kind of like explaining to an American why I didn’t drive to Vancouver for the Olympics when I lived in Toronto. 🙄
Some Cool Guy 5 years ago
From Perth, Western Australia it is 1440 Km (895 miles) to the nearest state border by road.
Megan Peniston-Bird 5 years ago
Cairns is only a regional town. Where’s Melbourne? Australia’s second biggest city.
Prism Dawn 5 years ago (edited)
The US and Europe are always grossly oversized in standard maps. It’s pretty messed up and really telling when it comes to matters of representation.
Bellatrix Lestrange 5 years ago
That's because when you put a globe onto a flat map it messes up the sizes of things. If you use a globe you can get a accurate comparison.
Load More Replies... Ani Archeron 5 years ago
And to think for camp I once took a bus from Sydney to Brisbane and back :D
#16
3D Render Topographic Map Of Europe
Linus Nilsson 5 years ago
I didn't know there was an ice-wall between Finland and Russia!?! (Do I need to write 'Sarkasm'?)
ML 5 years ago (edited)
Yes in Bored Panda comments you need to write Sarcasm. Otherwise -1 is very easy to come. There are a lot of people who get seriously offended when everything is not written through pink glasses. Slightly different comment than Uber positive will get you -1
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ML 5 years ago
Estonia is flat as an ironing board. The highest peak is 317,4 meters (1041 feet) above the sea level. And this is like the only mountain we have. Sorry a hill, not mountain.
Pamela24 5 years ago
That area is so pretty! I went to Suur Munamagi and not gonna lie - wouldn't call it a mountain but the view from the tower was so beautiful - all the little hills. And then we slept in our car near a lake/pond. Love Estonia! <3
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Robert Nowicki 4 years ago
This is a Russian border not Europe. European border is along Ural mountains.
Ove Wilmann 5 years ago
Correction: Bumpy north, flat center and bomby south. (Norway is not flat, fare from it if you look)
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North America Animal Migration Routes
k1ddkanuck 5 years ago
Wanna know who loses most from "building that wall"? Animals. Aka EVERYTHING.
Full Name 5 years ago
Amen. People schmeeple, it devastating for animals.
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#18
A Europe–U.S. Superhighway Proposed By The Former President Of Russian Railways
George-Florin Constantin 5 years ago
And now add another segment going over the Gibraltar and all across Africa to South Africa; And another one linking New York to Chile! Wouldn't that make for an awesome World Tour!
Zulma Ruiz 5 years ago (edited)
there is one, from the west coast. The Pan-American route is a network of roads that start in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and from there travel south through both North America and South America until it's ending point in Ushuaia, Argentina.
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Jennifer Gould 5 years ago
What an amazing thig it would be if I could catch a train in NY and end up in London without having to fly!!!
Bob Belcher 5 years ago
Sounds like a line in a country song. Ride my truck from NY to London 6 days a week only to find my wife be a cheat and my dogs done dead!
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Robert Blanchard 5 years ago
issue is rail lines in US are old as s**t, and not intended for fast travel. We have no intention in upgrading it either if anything our rail lines have decreased over time not increased.
Load More Replies... Bobert Robertson 5 years ago
Oh sure just ignore that the majority of the north american route would have been in Canada but we will still call it a Europe-US highway and not north america
NMN 5 years ago
I thought it was because of where it begins and where it ends, thus not mentioning Asia. So just call it England-US or London-NY, well...
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Katy McMouse 5 years ago
Kinda glad, given the state of our relations, that this didn't happen. It is a supremely cool idea, however.
memirkie xxx 5 years ago
A Railway A2A is underway to connect Alaska to the main Canadian/US rail network. The transiberian is going from western europe to vladivostok. Let's built the Vladivostok - Nome part, and we're good ! Far better than a highway.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
I'll get downvoted more, but... No. Has anyone looked at the history of Russia's treatment of its neighbors? Ones it can invade by land? EEK!
May Day 5 years ago
That's the Russian government. The Russians, at least the ones I've met, are quite nice and friendly.
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The Surface Of Mars: If, Like Earth, 71% Of Its Surface Area Was Covered With Water
Joeshar 5 years ago
The Martian civilizations would rise around that small inner sea on the right center. They would trade with far distances on the east then after many centuries they would cross the ocean to find a new route to the east but discover the continent on the west. Then they would enslave other Martians, make wars with each other, only to get more of a rare shiny metal. Then they would terminate their planet and go extinct. After a while robots of humans would arrive to search for life.
Heidi Svenson 4 years ago
You're not far off, some would say. Read my comment above. ;-)
Load More Replies... Jarod Giaquinto 4 years ago
I can see Olympus Mons. It's that island to the southwest of the big continent.
Loralie Chase 4 years ago
Is it just me or does it look sort of like something that would grow in a petri dish?
Sean Cannon 2 years ago
kinda but not really. If Mars was 71% covered in water, erosion would smooth those craters out.
#20
World's Smallest Country vs. Largest Building
Karin Jansen 5 years ago
Wait.. The flower auction is the largest building in the world? Yes!! Finally, we've got the biggest something =P
Maeve Raffaele 4 years ago
"Yes and what I get is smaller than what you get, you get the world's biggest building!" *Handshake* MWAHAHA I own a country now
Azziza 5 years ago
Just seems like Vatican City isn't a real country. They don't have families and stuff living there, it's more like church stuff. They just wanted to wall the church stuff off from Italy for some reason. IDK.
L.j. Bus 4 years ago
Plus it’s Vatican CITY. Not fair to make it a country 😂
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#21
The Decline Of Our Native Tongue Over The Last 2 Centuries, I Find The Maps Rather Than The Reciting Of Statistics, Gives A Far Better Impression On The Overall Erosion Of One Of The Biggest Aspects Of Our Culture, Irish Itself
Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago
Try parsing the dead First Nations speakers and lost languages.
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k1ddkanuck 5 years ago
This is changing though. In the last 20 years, sizable gains have been made in the revival of the Irish language. Even something as trivial as the democratization of language studies through things like Rosetta Stone, Duolingo and Babble have helped this a lot.
Elizabeth Sovereign 5 years ago (edited)
It's making a big resurgence since the year 2000. I know someone whose first language is Irish and he has 2 siblings and his Da's side of the family speaks Irish at home. I'm learning Irish very slowly and am not from Ireland (do have relations to it the country though McCartney clan) so it's slowly making a come back. Most people from county Kerry learn how to speak Irish before they do any English and has been that way for the last 20 years or so.
Navy Blue Bandana 5 years ago
"Famine" by Sinéad O'Connor: it is a beautiful song, and it tells about the real reason so many people died In the "famine": All the food except for potatoes was sent to England, even during potato blight when there were no potatoes.
Jon S. 5 years ago (edited)
That's a little simplistic, but hiding a real truth. In fact more food was imported into Ireland than exported during the famine, it just ended up being used as animal feed rather than being given to the population. Then the peasants' who's crops had failed could not afford to buy the animal products (large amounts of which did end up on the British market, where it fetched a higher price). There was a perfect storm that made the famine so bad which included a screwy tax system, centuries of economic penalties imposed on Catholics, a fanatical adherence to market forces, an unprecedented number of harvest failures and a startling lack of empathy within the English and Anglo-Irish ruling class for Irish peasants.
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Bonnie Edwards 5 years ago
I think it will be similar in South Wales. My husband (born near Cardiff) says that because of English Law, he was not allowed to learn Welsh from any native speakers. He was only allowed to learn it from a British teacher.
Wondering Alice 4 years ago
Unsure when that happened, but it is not true today. Speaking as a teacher in Cardiff, Welsh lessons are taken seriously. Perhaps your husband is pre devolution.
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Pansexual (In theory) 5 years ago
Saddening... I've always wanted to learn native Irish tongue, as my great-grandparents immigrated from Ireland to the USA. My history always interests me.
#22
Worlds CO Emissions
kjorn 5 years ago
are you surprised that China are the biggest problem in pollution? and they don't give a sh!t
Ian Smith 5 years ago
They keep signing and breaking the multinational agreements and no one holds them accountable.
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BorPand8 5 years ago
The map is kind of deceptive though. If it was at the top you'd have lots of people saying stuff like, "See, China creates most of the world's global warming!!! We shouldn't have to make any changes!!!" Well... outsourcing your manufacturing doesn't absolve you of the responsibility for it. Also, CO is carbon monoxide. Is this carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide?
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Ole Mortensen 5 years ago
This seems to be taken from windy.com. First this map is not CO but CO2. Secondly it's not emissions but concentration. Thirdly when it's night in the US it's day in China and something in between in Europe, so time of day makes a big difference. For example this map shows Europe has much bigger emissions than the US when in fact it's the other way around.
Bob Belcher 5 years ago
I was thinking the same thing! I know America has way more pollution that this. We have plenty of factories too. We have extensive highway systems with low public transportation. Heck! Houston and Beaumont have the largest oil refineries but you don't see anything over them.
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Jarrod McDonald 5 years ago
https://www.windy.com/-CO-concentration-cosc?cosc,2020-10-21 this is the source as of 20th October 2020. CO concentration is very seasonal especially in agricultural countries and those prone to forest fires. Please don't sleep happy at night celebrating the USA leaving the Paris Accord - USA is still 2nd biggest producer of CO2 the leading contributor to climate change. http://www.globalcarbonatlas.org/en/CO2-emissions
Jennifer Gould 5 years ago
I would love to see this map pre-covid and during. I kept reading about how our being quarantined cleaned things up!
Perpetual Peripheral Persons 5 years ago
If it really means CO- there's a bigger problem than we thought!
onivdsrapowijap 4 years ago
Almost everything at stores in other countries is made in China, that's like saying don't buy ANYTHING.
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Keith Dewey 5 years ago
This map doesn't seem to make sense. The U.S. produces 25% of the global CO2.
Christel Nellemann 5 years ago
We need to stop using breakable useless plastic crap , that goes straigh to garbage. Upcycle or build lasting things and collect alle plastics. We can bring this down and be happier too.
#23
Locations Johnny Cash Claims To Have Been In "Ive Been Everywhere"
Wyndmere 5 years ago
Maybe one little town on that map is named “Everywhere”.
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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
He went (somewhat) into Canada so must have had one? Why not travel a bit further once you've got it? Weird.
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Katrina B. 5 years ago
Straight No Chaser does a cover of this song but changes it to all the tour stops they've done and it's fantastic
Cara Birch 4 years ago
Hey, Johnny, don't take this the wrong way, buddy but that's just America, get a map my friend.
Lejita 4 years ago
Actually, he did visit Montana in real life. An older friend of mine met him east of Glacier National Park
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#24
The Countries That Got Tea Via China Through The Silk Road (Land) Referred To It In Various Forms Of The Word "Cha". On The Other Hand, The Countries That Traded With China Via Sea - Through The Min Tan Port Called It In Different Forms Of "Te"
Gabriel Gamas Giuntini 5 years ago
Portugal was the first European contact. The Portuguese kin drink more tea when compared with the British people. The origin of tea in England happened because of a Portuguese Princess that became England’s Queen, she LOVED tea, because in Portugal EVERYBODY used to drink it. So, when the Queen started drinking tea, all British aristocracy started drinking also. And then some philologists say that the origin of the word tea is that in the boxes where Portugal use to transport Tea Herbs, in the boxes used to be written “Transporte de Ervas Aromáticas” (Aromatic’s herbs transports) and the initials that were on the box were “TEA”, so that is why the name, it’s the Portuguese influence in the world!! If you wanna read more, just look in this BBC report http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170823-the-true-story-behind-englands-tea-obsession
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Rado 5 years ago
I don't know who and how created this map but I see it as oversimplified. It's not taking into account the English language influence during the colonial times. For example - it's hard to believe that in Myanmar they use 'tea' because of the sea trade routes while this country has quite a long border with China. The only explanation is the it's a former English colony. Plus there are lot's of tribes there so it's hard to believe they all use 'tea'. In Malaysia the Malays say 'teh' the Chinese "cha' and people with Indian origin 'chai'. And Portugal as a country with a land trade route to China? What a crap. They were first to discover the sea route to India (after the Arab merchants of course) so probably 'chá' in Portuguese is because of early contacts with India rather than with China. And we could go on like this...
NMN 5 years ago
Yeah, oversimplified and sometimes just wrong. But... as ast I checked was Japan dunno if Goa would be the point of learning.
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Kamila Anna 5 years ago
Sorry, but in Poland tea is actually "herbata", so from "herbs", so completely out of these sources XDD
Mune Wu 5 years ago
Actually it does. It is a blend of Latin words HERBA (herbs) and THEA.
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how did Portugal trade by land, if separated completely by countries who traded by sea ......
onivdsrapowijap 4 years ago
They got it by sea, just not from Min Nan where most countries that traded it by sea did.
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Aleksander Gruchot 5 years ago
In Poland we use the word "HERBATA" coming rather from Latin "herbum" than from any type of chai or te. However we use the word "czajnik" for teapot and you can find this "chai" component there :-)
Živilė Šmitaitė 5 years ago
In Lithuanian it's arbata. Other languages- herbata - derives from herb, latin herba - herbal brew :)
#25
Passenger Railway Network 2020
Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago
In the "australia" map.... that little pink line above the "L", is actually New Zealand - a totally separate country to "Australia" (although the Aussies & Kiwis do consider themselves like "siblings" ie we are staunch rivals within sports, but stick together in defense of eachother).
Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago
Keep in mind that something like 80% of Australia's land is dessert, with 80% of the population on the east coast. The horizontal line joins Perth (capital of Western Australia), to the rest of the country. The vertical line joins Darwin (capital of the Norther Territory) with the rest of the country. Yes, there are smaller towns in the centre - but they are very rare.
Antony Roth 4 years ago
I live in the fruit section, not far from the sponge cake, custard and fortified sherry. I'm being a trifle silly here, as Australia is not NOT 80% dessert. ;-)
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Sanne H. 5 years ago
And still, it is either complicated or very expensive to book a ticket from west to east, since most railway companies only focus on national travels or travels to the neighbouring countries only. When I travelled from Amsterdam to Stockholm, I had to book separate tickets at the Dutch, the German and the Swedish railway company, and crossed my fingers that all of them would be in time, so that I would not miss one. And it wasn’t even fast: the trip took 24 hours. A trip from Amsterdam to Kyiv would even take 3 days. From an environmental perspective I prefer the train over flying, but with these circumstances the train will never win from flying with most people.
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Stephan Weinberger 5 years ago
Note that this is only the passenger network. In the US, rail is predominantly used for freight.
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ChinmayGhule 4 years ago
The British did create railway routes so that they can quickly extracts goods, however the dense network that you see above was formed later after independence, specially in the last thirty years.
Load More Replies... Perpetual Peripheral Persons 5 years ago
I thought the US would have so many rails across the desert- how do you get around if you can't drive?
Isa Car 5 years ago
People apparently don't. (I mean, there seem to be some long distance buses called Greyhounds, but in general, poor people and other non-car-drivers are apparently expected to stay where they are. Even getting around in cities can be hard without a car from what I read. Next to no public transport, bicycles are seen as only nuisances and even a lack of sidewalks to just walk somehwere!)
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What Pedestrians Look Like Across Europe
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Yes every Berlin tourist gets stuff with them (mugs, Tshirts, ... ); I was looking for it on the map.
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farbenzirkel 5 years ago
I like the ones I saw in Vienna my last visit: neue-ampel...mbole3.jpg 
They have man/man, man/woman and woman/woman ones. So cute!
Agnieszka Najbosksza 5 years ago
nope. they look like this only on red lights
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Wrong. Pedestrian crossings in Poland are marked with a different sign. In this photo it is accompanied by a sign used when a kindergarten is nearby. 1568963577...77787b.jpg 
Pansexual (In theory) 5 years ago
What is the little girl holding... it looks like a giant toffee...
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Daniel Jankowski 5 years ago
In terms of Poland the correct sign we use to signalize pedestrians crossing is this: 1200px-Zna...6d-png.jpg 
Elisa Halla 5 years ago
I like the leisurely pace of the Norwegian. My kind of pedestrian! Just enjoying the fjords and letting others do the hurrying.
Jo Firth 5 years ago
Anyone else notice the pedestrians are all male? How do women get around?
Eglė Bukauskaitė 5 years ago
Haven't You seen the Victorian carriages where women used to be transported straight into the see to swim around? Walking is so not lady like! Filthy peasant!
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#27
The Topologist's Map Of The World - A Map Showing International Borders, And Nothing Else
Katherine Boag 5 years ago
Everything that touches in this map, touches in real life. That's all.
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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Take regular world map, pin down all places two borders meet (so "3 country points") or one border meets water. Islands you can simplify to a dot. Now straighten all detail out, because surface area does not matter; then arrange neatly/however. But here it went wrong a few times (e.g. Poland).
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Darius Zemenskas 5 years ago
Not correct. Lithuania touches Russia in real world. Here it is not shown like that.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Yeah, they forgot about the little part between Lithuania and Poland.
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If exclaves would not be ignored, it would be a more complicated, but also an even more weird and interesting map. A.o. Russia would also share a border with Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) and The Netherlands and France would share a border too (Sint-Maarten/Saint-Martin)
Léa Haupaix 4 years ago
France should have borders with Brazil and Suriname
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These Two Areas Of Africa Have Roughly Equal Populations
Lynne Pierce 5 years ago
When you consider most of the blue is a massive desert, not surprising.
Daniel Meyer 4 years ago
The N***r Delta is to West Africa what the Ganges Delta (Bangladesh) is to the Indian Subcontinent. River deltas often have a higher population density.
#29
Roads Either Side Of The Border: Finland vs. Russia
George-Florin Constantin 5 years ago
Maybe at the ends of those roads there are houses.
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#30
Syria Before And After Civil War
Grant Kerr 5 years ago
"Civil war" that has been organized and run by America. Who are STILL there illegally taking Syrias oil ffs. About time America is held accountable for their terrorist actions.
Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
America: Doing to other countries exactly what they tell other countries not to do to them since... Uuuuhhh... Hmmmm...
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Marilyn Bojanowski 4 years ago
Same here. Is it supposed to be light sources? Population?
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#31
The Surprising Range Of Flamingos
#32
My Teacher Was Excited For Our WWI Unit
Draga Millani 4 years ago
Honestly appreciate the "I have the courage to teach hard history" sign
emily secrest 5 years ago
Bloody shame that it's on a white board and easily erased. All that time and effort to create such beautiful detail, and just the casual bump of someone's arm on it can destroy it.
#33
World With 1000m Sea Level Drop
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Unfortunately we are looking at the opposite, since the sea level will be rising.
Nerdiqueen 5 years ago
https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ and the sequel, https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/
Dark Pearl 4 years ago
I always get irrationally freaked out by these kind of maps. I guess I just mentally wouldn't be able to cope with the geographical change (although I would love being able to drive to Norway :))
#34
A Map Of The World But It’s Just The Time Zones
mph seti 5 years ago
That is something I'd hang on my wall. I've wanted a minimalist piece like that for a while, actually. Don't like the green and black though.
Amazon QT 4 years ago
Make sure it’s not upside down if you do hang it on the wall.
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#35
The History Of Accuracy In World Maps
Smiley Rie 4 years ago
1375 looks like dragon has a rider and they're meeting the Loch Ness monster (with a random rabbit eyeing off a patch of grass)
Smiley Rie 4 years ago
1154 looks like a dragon is flying towards someone who tripped over and fell on their face just in front of the rocks they were going to hide behind
Mosheh Wolf 5 years ago
The 1050 map wasn't a geographical representation of the world, and wasn't expected to be used to teach geography or be used for navigation. It was a religious representation of the world. The maps that were used for education and navigation were different. However, European ones were likely a lot worse than the Arab ones of the period, although I would guess that Europeans who could afford one would use a copy of one of the Arab maps.
#36
North American Cryptids
Nicola Roberts 5 years ago
This is a fun map. Looks like Nessie enjoys a holiday on the North West coast.
What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
That "Skinwalker" is probably going to cause me some nightmares...
Belinda Marie McLaughlin Knoblock 5 years ago
I have noticed that some people even have huge Flatwoods Monster inflatables in their yards!
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Joyous Cat Birb 5 years ago
An animal that is rumoured to exist with no proof
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I live in North Alabama. I have never heard of the pope lick monster.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
And what is an octopus doing in Oklahoma?
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How The Antarctic Looks Beneath The Ice
#38
All The Nations That Have To Be Combined To Be Equal To Brazils Annual Homicides
Nicola Roberts 5 years ago
Staggering. I appreciate this done for affect, but I would be interested in Mexico's figures.
Matheus Oliveira 5 years ago
Defintely, something we are NOT proud of. And the current situation down here isn't making it all that better...
Randall Bevan 5 years ago
Djibouti had 60 homicides, Kiribati had 8; why not include those guys and actually be equal?
#39
How Much Snow Does It Usually Take To Cancel Schools?
Jessica 5 years ago
Its not because we don't get any snow but if there is the tiniest bit of ice it is canceled for like a week lol
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EdgeySpice 5 years ago
I live in Texas and if there is even just a bit of ice, the school was closed for the next week. When I visited Colorado for the first time, I was amazed.
Natalie KS 5 years ago
That's not accurate for Canada. Each region is different due to the amount of snowfall each area usually gets in Winter. Where I'm from (SW Ontario), schools close at 6". We get relatively little snow annually.
E Menendez 5 years ago (edited)
Anyone lower than the second blue from the deepest is a coward! I only count 12 inches or 30 cm as acceptable if it has occurred in a short period of time. 12 inches of snow is hard to drive in if the roads have not been plowed especially in all-season tires (which everyone should have for winter - I am looking at the South on this one where they think summer tires are all year tires) Snow tires, not a problem. Now, if visibility is low due to blizzard conditions, no one should drive.
Artoonist Corine 5 years ago
I don't think the Illinois map is quite accurate. Northern IL schools close way before 6-12" of snow.
Katrina B. 5 years ago
This map is inaccurate to an extent other factors come into play. Especially in the upper Great Plains. There, Wind plays a huge factor. So there could only be 6 inches of snow but if the winds are blowing and gusting, usually school canceled. Or if it's bitterly cold (like below zero for highs).
#40
Variations Of The Name John
ADHORTATOR 5 years ago (edited)
In German ist would be Johann/ Johannes first, Jan and Hans are shorter versions
Haunting Spirit 5 years ago
Here in the Netherlands it's the same. John comes from the bible and in Dutch it's translated as Johannes. Jan/Hans are indeed shorter versions.
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SykesDaMan 5 years ago
For the ref: "... transliterating the Hebrew name Yohanan..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_(given_name)
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#41
When Visiting Someone: Red - Keep Shoes On, Green - Take Shoes Off
Nevid 5 years ago
I live in France and I've very rarely been in a house where I didn't have to take off my shoes.
Georges Piriou 4 years ago
And in French speaking Switzerland is the same.
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Mohammad Ammar 5 years ago
To me this has more to do with whether or not the house is carpeted.
Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
Oh, in Croatia, it differs by household, it should be dotty, not all green.
Haunting Spirit 5 years ago
Funfact: I live in the Netherlands and though it's indeed quite normal to keep your shoes on it is not in the village I live in. The whole village takes off their shoes when visiting someone. In fact, even at the office they'll take of their shoes.
What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
Netherlands here, and it's true, we definitely don't take our shoes off when visiting someone. Which I'm extremely glad about, because on the rare occasions that people do ask this from you, I am extremely uncomfortable. I can't speak for anybody else, but personally I find it too... intimate?
DogMatic 5 years ago
I have stone floors & muddy dogs, shoes are a necessity! (UK)
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Trying so hard thinking 5 years ago
In Poland generally you can keep shoes on during visiting.
JuJu 5 years ago
My hometown is in the red part of Germany and I can tell you that almost everyone is going to hit you over the head when you walk into the living room with your shoes on.
Yvonne Blau 5 years ago
I agree... I don't think you keep your shoes on anywhere in Germany
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#42
Brazil's Northernmost Point Is Closer To Every Country In The Americas Than To Brazil's Southernmost Point
Vuun 5 years ago
I just checked on google maps that this is the case with USA as well. South of Florida is about 6850km from northern Alaska and 6650km from northern Uruguay. Brazil is more surprising, though..
Hanni 5 years ago
The title is tricky and too long... Since it's on the southern hemisphere its size is somewhat misleading on North American maps. In other worlds: Brazil is so huge that its N-S length is more than its distance from North American countries.
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I Recorded The Last Two Months As A Pizza Delivery Guy (On Bike)
#44
Turkey , Borders 7 Countries With 7 Different Alphabets
Mohammad Ammar 5 years ago (edited)
Idk if you're being sarcasric but there's nothing wrong with the Arabic script.
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#45
‘October’ In European Languages
Ivo H 5 years ago
Oh yes, říjen. Beautiful, easy-to-pronounce word, so similar to the others... Fun fact - in czech republic, we have also listopad (same as in croatia), but it means november.
#46
There And Back Again
ThatGuv 5 years ago (edited)
I have it on good authority that the Eye of Sauron is located at Mar-a-Lago...
Katy McMouse 5 years ago
I can't believe they made it out of Ohio, given all the times I've been stuck on I-90.
Shelby P 5 years ago
Why is Bilbo's starting place different? I thought he left from the shire also.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I’m confused, they have the exact same starting place.
Load More Replies... Katy McMouse 5 years ago
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#47
The Japanese Flag But The Two Colors Have The Same Population
slackjack 5 years ago
The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in a white zone.
MrTree1779 5 years ago
"This woman has to be taken to a hospital." "The Hospital? What is it?" --- "It's a building with patients. But that's not important right now." 201-Airpla...47f777.gif 
Nate Hull 4 years ago
My brain completes it and it makes a...tie-dye Japanese flag? That's interesting 😼
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#49
Percentage Of People Willing To Fight For Their Country
JellyBean 5 years ago
wars are legit adults acting like children because "HE/SHE WAS MEAN FIRST" or "NO I WANT THAT!"... XD reading over this I see this is very true.
Load More Replies... Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Soooo.. red means "no"? Cause I can't read the explanation on the side.
serge 5 years ago
It does, but don't mess with belgian beer, fries or chocolate....
Load More Replies... Andrew Fan 4 years ago
Austria has required military service for men yet one of the lowest percentages (21) on this map
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
Lmao no data for Norway. Finland though, exactly what I’d expect.
Romenriel 5 years ago
Surprisingly low number in Germany. So war is the only thing in which they won't help us Czechs.
Yvonne Blau 5 years ago
We still remember all too well how "fighting for our country" turned out the last time
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Beatrice Multhaupt 5 years ago
I remember my German husband inadvertently startling an American friend in 1984 :''Reunification? Bah...it means nothing to us''. I needed to translate: ''We're not ready to die for reunification because war against Russia has no chance of succeeding''"
Essex Eagle 4 years ago
I smell BS. What was the number sampled ? What parts of the countries. What were the ages/ numbers asked. Without this the map is meaningless
#50
New Take On The Concept Of A World Metro
Francisco Scaramanga 5 years ago
I wonder how quickly it would be possible to travel, for example, from Iceland to Japan or from London to Los Angeles.
#51
Coats Of Arms Of European Countries
ADHORTATOR 5 years ago
France has no coat of arms since 1912 , the shown fasces symbol is often used, but not official
Nevid 5 years ago
True, this is not one of the official symbols of the country. It has the same status as the image below, but is much less commonly used . logo-repub...ncaise.jpg 
#52
World’s 25 Largest Lakes Side By Side
Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
But Caspian Sea is a sea. 🌊 (It’s a joke for those who are gonna complain in the reply section)
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Some 50 years ago the Aral Sea was the 4th largest lake but now the two main remaining parts are too small for this comparison.
Gregory Hewitt 4 years ago
@Jenný Samúelsdóttir Herlufsen, Lake Superior is in Canada as well, ya buffoon.
Chaya Herrebrugh-Wachtmeester 4 years ago
It's called sea, but completely enclosed by land, therefore it's a lake. Just Google why it's called sea and the history behind it.b
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Retorter A 5 years ago
It's named after the indigenous "Slave" or "Slavey", but it sounds creepy to the English tongue!
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#53
How I, A Brit, See The United States (Sorry If It Offends Anyone)
Katy McMouse 5 years ago
You only call New England "small and confusing" because you are still wondering how you lost it (no offense, just joking! Seriously).
BeazleBug 5 years ago
You do understand this site just reposts from social media, right?
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Kinslee Hager 5 years ago (edited)
Really i think they should have never made this map how is NC SC Tennessee and many more "nothing special" they could be called country music places
sylvanticx 5 years ago
I, an American, see America like this. But Hawaii's "paradise" and Florida is "crazy people".
#54
You Can Fit The Entirety Of Poland Into Texas And Still Be Able To Drive Around It
lara 5 years ago
Sorry, can't help myself: Russia and Germany have NEVER missed Poland. Unfortunately.
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Michael Sauerwein 5 years ago
I don't know why they flipped Poland 180 degrees. I didn't recognize it at first.
Monika Rhodes 5 years ago
Probably so it fits perfectly inside the lines.
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How To Say "Thank You" In Europe
IlovemydogShilo 5 years ago
Thank you in Irish is Go Raibh Maith Agat ( Pronounced Go Ro My Aggat. Thank you in Welsh is Diolch (pronounced Diolsh).
Maura Furlong-MacInnis 5 years ago
They have also written those on the map, if you squint.
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IlovemydogShilo 5 years ago
Actually the way you say Thank you in Irish is Go Raibh Maith Agat ( go ro my agott ) and in Welsh is Diolch (Di- Olsh).
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
In Dutch you say "Dank je" to friends,family or acquaintances . "Dank u" is used in more formal situations.
#56
How To Become President With 22% Of The Vote
If you would get 50.1% of the vote of each red-coloured state, 22% of the population of the country, you would become president, even if 78% of the country voted for another person, this is assuming that 49.9% of people in the the red-coloured states voted for the blue party, and 100% of the people in the blue-coloured states voted for the blue party.
NOTE: The colours dont mean anything
Katy McMouse 5 years ago
It absolutely is not. The electoral college is a sham.
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Sharon Collier 5 years ago (edited)
It should just be based on who gets the most votes. The one who gets a majority should be the winner. Period.
George-Florin Constantin 5 years ago
So you have a better chance of becoming president if you win the states with less educated polulation. It's the same like everywhere else.
Azure Adams 5 years ago
WHich is EXACTLY why we need to ABOLISH the electoral college. It's BULLSHIT
#57
Comparing The Population Of The Dakotas And Manhattan
Jennifer Johnson 4 years ago
lived in both states now, so much open space when driving but western SD has beautiful scenery
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Minerva Mcgonagall 5 years ago
You should! Western ND is beautiful, but there aren't many large towns so shopping would be a bit of a chore. Eastern ND, especially Fargo, is FLAT but has more convieniences such as a Costco, Target, Wal-Mart, etc.
Load More Replies... Ben Smith 5 years ago
Do you know how the Senate works? The House of Representatives has 27 members from New York. North and South Dakota each have exactly one.
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Paper Sizes World Map
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
well, you know us. Always gotta be special and different from the Brits : )
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#59
Map Of Almost All Countries And Their Respective Camo Patterns
#60
4 Years Of Trucking, Each Dot Is Somewhere He Spent >1 Hour
DE Ray 5 years ago
You're not really "visiting" in a truck, just passing through. And most of what you see is the worst parts of any place you go.
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#61
Position Of The North Magnetic Pole Since 1590
BeazleBug 5 years ago
results prior to 1900 are questionable due to technology, but for a real mind blower, look up how much it shifts by annually.
Load More Replies... ML 5 years ago
Take your time to read this :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_field
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#62
What Motorcycles Look Like Across Europe (Based On The Prohibitory Road Sign)
MrTree1779 5 years ago
Span, Italy, and Romania apparently don't have Motorcycles. They have Tron Light Cycles!
Francisco Scaramanga 5 years ago
Old Polish motorcycle propably... https://www.google.com/search?q=shl+gazela
Andrew Gibb 5 years ago
Ireland's motorcycle symbol is a poem to a wild horse
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#63
Olympus Mons Compared To France
#64
British Columbia Split Into 3 Areas Of Equal Population
MrTree1779 5 years ago
They should rename the Province to "Not Vancouver", then make Vancouver a City State.
Paloma Vita 4 years ago
I have lived in all three parts at different times in my life... first in Vancouver, then in Nelson and finally in Victoria.
#65
Europe Number Plates
Ray Heap 5 years ago
I would be careful including the Swiss numberplate as the owners can be traced by anybody via the internet, including name and address. In some Kanton´s this service is for free, in St. Gallen (SG, as in the example) for a small fee. https://www.fahrzeugindex.ch/ it makes for very polite drivers
Olivia Miller (Livie) 5 years ago
Wait this is what European number plates look like? These are the Aussie ones https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/license-plate-australia.html
ML 5 years ago
There is no car registered with the number 307 RTB in Estonia. Swedish license plate belongs to Volvo XC60 (2015 model), Norwegian is VW Golf (2011).
Radek Suski 5 years ago
Or: which countries are, which would like to join and which don't won't to joint the EU
#66
Hundred Largest Islands Of The World
Scyth 5 years ago
What's the difference between a continent and an island? Size? No wonder there is alot of confusion about australia.
mph seti 5 years ago
A continent is made up of at least two tectonic plates, and island sits on a single plate.
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Sasha Shepherd 5 years ago
Being able to zoom in on some of these posts would be great.
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Henry Cheves 5 years ago (edited)
@Foxxy (The Original), it is not an island. As seen above, islands sit on 1 tectonic plate and continents sit on multiple.
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MrTree1779 5 years ago
Hawai'i: Second row from the bottom, seventh from the right. Yellow-Hib...035418.jpg 
Colin Saunders 5 years ago
Wow thanks for getting Qikiqtaaluk correct! i live at the top of it!
Colin Saunders 5 years ago
Wow! thanks for getting Qikiqtaaluk correct!! i l iive at the top of it!
#67
Frances Longest Border Is Shared With Brazil!
Laugh or not 5 years ago
French Guiana is a département with the same status as any département in mainland France. The inhabitants are French citizens (and therefore European citizens).
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#68
The Russian Flag But The Two Colors Have The Same Population
Andrei Anghel 5 years ago (edited)
Really two: red and blue. White is a non-color :p
Load More Replies... Yamini Mahendran 5 years ago
Did you know 70% of population lives in the European part of Russia, 70 % Of land of Russia however is under Asia.
#69
90 Minute Public Transit Commuter Zone For London vs. San Francisco
BorPand8 5 years ago
Hahaha the 90-minute public transit commuter zone in Manila would be about 5 miles in diameter. And it wouldn't help you much to drive your own car either. Walking is quite often faster. Well, before the pandemic. Things are better... for now.
Joan OConnor 5 years ago
I was wondering about that. It would be nice to see more comparisons around the world.
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Usage Of 'Dang' In The United States
Clever Dog 5 years ago
I always find it odd how Americans think Damn is swearing it the UK and probably Europe to it really isn't. We swear a lot more even on TV.
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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
You got down voted by someone but you are correct. The red area is pretty much the bible belt. Literally a church on every corner. Ihave probably at least 15 churches within a mile any direction from my house. At least. Kinda ridiculous.
Load More Replies... EdgeySpice 5 years ago
To be honest, I use "dang" a lot. don't get me wrong, I still use damn, but with kids, it's nice to have an alternative. also, I use "y'all" all the time.
#71
The Nearest Country To Everywhere In The US
#72
The Nearest Country To You, When In Russia
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
@I’m not even going to try to write that out, as it would give me an aneurysm, it is, in fact, the nearest country to you when in Russia
#73
Amount Of Tanks Per 100 000 People
ML 5 years ago
Tank is an attack weapon, not defense weapon. We in Estonia are all about defense, not attack.
MrTree1779 5 years ago
Yes, Russia has 14 per 100,000 people. It's...Russia. --- But why does GREECE have TWELVE?? Seems a bit extreme (for any Euro-country other than Russia).
#74
Average 'First Leaf' Appearance In The Contiguous U.S.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I want to live somewhere where I have to where a light jacket in summer and I'm snowed in during winter. I'm tired of sweating mid October.
Artoonist Corine 5 years ago
Come to southern Illinois - where you can "enjoy" all four seasons in one day!
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Kinslee Hager 5 years ago (edited)
Same here in south Carolina we have rain one day then the next is cold and then after that everyone melts like a popsicle in the sun its crazy
#75
The Italian Flag, But Every Colour Has The Same Population
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