30 Interesting Maps That Might Change Your Perspective, As Shared On This Instagram Account
A good map is worth a thousand words. A bad one, on the other hand, is just one, and usually a pretty ugly one.
If you've been on Bored Panda long enough, you probably know that we have a soft spot for cartography. After all, we've already covered it here, here, and here.
So when we discovered the social media project 'A Map A Day', we knew we had to make a publication about it too. Run by a cultural geography and tourism student, it regularly shares all sorts of geographical oddities that challenge the way you see the world.
Continue scrolling and see for yourself!
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Visual Guide To Geographic Terms
I remember what they are, and I'm ridiculously pleased with myself 🤣
Load More Replies...this is actually extremely helpful. i've been wanting to write a short story for a while, and this is awesome!
I've always wondered what a fjord was since there is a dragon named Fjord in Wings of Fire and they are named after things like geographical things or stuff like that
Most-Used Word In Each State
The map reads left to right, "you can make these maps say whatever you want by adjusting the methodology, half the time your just amplifying random noise because the underlying data doesn't vary that much from one state to another. But whatever no body checks this stuff. just pick whatever normalization let's you make fun of Florida." lol
I realized as soon as I saw the "lets you make fun of florida" at the end
Load More Replies...It wasn't the fact that "methodology" and "normalization" are in there?
Load More Replies...The evolution of maps has taken a long road. We, humans, have documented our surroundings for thousands of years, in the form of cave paintings, stone tablets, religious maps, printed maps, and the multi-layered digital maps of modern day.
From ancient Babylon, through the Renaissance, and into the present, mapping history offers a fascinating look into the collective psyche of each period.
Closeness Over Time
This so so true and some are so sad. The ones with the parents and dogs really make my heart ache.
I'm so stupid, I don't understand what any of those graphics mean... I mean I know it's about "closeness" but like, there's a peak and a low on the parent and dog ones... what does that mean?? Maybe I just can't relate
You're not stupid. Please never say that about yourself. The lines indicate how close we are to another person (or animal) over time. The closer the lines are together, the closer we are to that person. So the parent's line shows we are close when we are small, grow apart for awhile (most likely in our teens and early twenties) then get closer again when we come to understand our parent as a person/peer/friend, then the very sad part is the line ends when the parent dies, and we have to continue that journey alone. With the dog it shows they come into our life for a very brief time, we learn to love them as puppies, grow very close to them, and then have to learn to let go of them as they age and die, and we go on alone without them again. <3
Load More Replies...The sibling one is so true. Unfortunately, I lost mine too soon.
Wow, I was imagining relationship lines like this decades ago. Converging paths, intersecting paths, diverging paths, wiggly paths... I feel validated.
Victoria Peak (Hong Kong), Carved Onto A Roll Of Tape
Never finding the end on that tape now! Was hard enough already
Meanwhile, I can’t find the end and then have to wrestle to just cut a piece off.
Even if I had the skills to do this, which I don’t, it would be all fluffy and dirty by the time I’d finished it. The real marvel of Takahiro Iwasaki’s work is how it’s so immaculate!
The Imago Mundi (more commonly known as the Babylonian Map of the World) is considered the oldest surviving world map.
It is currently on display at the British Museum in London and dates back to between 700 and 500 BC. It was found in a town called Sippar in Iraq. The carved map depicts Babylon in the center with places like Assyria and Elam nearby, all surrounded by a “Salt Sea” forming a ring around the cities.
Outside the ring, eight islands or regions are carved into the tablet. The map is accompanied by a cuneiform text describing Babylonian mythology in the regions depicted on the stone.
Sharks vs. Humans (2014)
This is heartbreaking! I watched a documentary during Shark Week and it stated that most of the sharks killed are just for their fins. The fins are made into Shark Fin soup. I hope we can make it illegal world wide to kill sharks. The are beautiful and amazing creatures.
You are quite right, but what I find most upsetting is that some fisherman are removing the fin and just dropping the still very much alive shark back into the water. It sinks and dies a long and painful death. It's just horrific. All for some third rate soup.
Load More Replies...I'll be honest. Sharks scare me. I blame my cousin making me watch Jaws at a young age while we were at the beach. I never really got over it. Still bothers to this day no matter how fake it looks. However that doesn't mean we should just kill sharks! They're a normal and necessary part of nature.
I'm not sure they do. Might well be people from other countries fishing in international waters close to Sweden.
Load More Replies...Many hundreds of people were killed by sharks during the war in the south pacific, so I don't think these numbers were well researched. The Asians that kill for shark fins and rhinoceros horns, etc. should be controlled.
The number of hymans is way undercounted. Many were killed during the war in the south pacific. I'm sure both numbers are fabricated or at least poor estimates.
Clouds Flow Past Mt. Fuji, Japan
It's cool but I thought this was maps and graphs?
Load More Replies...We were told about beautiful sunrise views from Mt. Fuji. When we went we walked all night, arrived at the top around 4 am, chose a nice spot and waited... only to find ourselves surrounded by such clouds. It was still an amazing experience though.
A Chart Illustrating Gerrymandering In Its Most Basic Form
If only the supreme court had ruled gerrymandering unconstitutional.... But the electoral college pretty much guarantees that the supreme court will have more conservative than liberal judges. A republican presidential candidate hasn't won the popular vote since 2004 yet they have appointed 5 of the 7 judges since then.
And the candidate that won in 2004 got into office in 2000 after losing the popular vote. He got a bunch of folks whipped up into a fury after 2001 and got us into an unjust forever war that got him re-elected in 2004. There's a reason McConnell's number one priority has been packing the courts and obstructing any nominees to federal courts or the supreme when a dem is in office. There's a reason that the party has prioritized winning state legislative races, so they can redistrict and restrict voting access. They know that they don't have the majority of the voters. They can't win a fair fight.
Load More Replies...all that bulls*it over made up illegal votes and this right here NEVER gets much attention.
I'm all in favor of that for the presidency, however the districting issue here in the US has to do with determining what area a congressional representative covers. The Senate is statewide, so strictly popular vote. But each member of the House of Representatives represents a geographical region of a state.
Load More Replies...Seams as if someone can change districts w***y nilly to suit their needs.
Load More Replies...This is why proportional voting is much better, and STV is the best of all!
"First past the post voting" is never a solid democracy. Cheaters gonna cheat.
I learned about this earlier this year in geography! Gerrymandering! We had to even do it ourselves. It feels pretty unfair the way a lot of people do it, but there's not really much we can do.
Eight states in the US use independent redistricting committees. Maybe there's a movement in your state to do the same. It's worth fighting for. In my state, we have a process for citizens to put propositions on the ballot. That's how we changed from the legislature drawing the lines to an independent citizen's commission.
Load More Replies...Wish we could just use the closest voting location to the voters residence. Only changing it if the population gets too high to open up a second location and so on. This whole redistricting thing is so dumb. Nothing like the losing team remaking the rules so they can have a possibility of winning.
Redistricting *is* changed only in response to population changes. That’s why it coincides with the census. The trouble comes when partisans get to decide how to group like population numbers into districts.
Load More Replies...Redistricting is called redistribution in Australia. If any party attempted to manipulate the process and corrupt it to favour their electoral chances it would be scandalous, probably cause the party to lose the next election, and lead to criminal trials. It is possible to have independence in this process, it just takes will.
The medieval maps, on the other hand, seem to have been dominated by the church, reflecting the ecclesiastical dogmas and interpretations of Scripture
But during the late Middle Ages, a great deal of enthusiasm was generated by the travels of Marco Polo in the 1270s and 1280s.
New information about faraway places, and the stimulation of interest in world maps, promoted their sale and circulation and it was evident that Marco Polo’s experiences inspired the desire for exploration in many.
The Many Flags Inside Norway’s Flag
And take the blue away and you have Denmark - What country was they under to 1814!
sorry to be that one a-hole but it's WERE GOSH DARN IT
Load More Replies...They each have a little piece of it. I never realized that before this picture.
Cause Of Death - Reality vs. Google vs. Media
They should, and there's a lot wrong with the media, but humans are TERRIBLE at actually paying attention to important matters, preferring instead to just chase shiny objects.
Load More Replies...I've just been diagnosed with diabetes (T1)... not fun seeing my condition on that list. Until a week ago I thought I was pretty healthy.
Even with diabetes, you can still live a long, healthy life with a good lifestyle! :)
Load More Replies...You can't compare medical issues against human horror. This post is a just another example of the last one.
I think the biggest problem is that honest media is still a business and needs to bring in revenue to survive to bring the news; they are forced to report on what people want to see. And many other media outlets are already strongly bias because they're owned by big companies (or even countries) that want to protect their profits; they report what they want you to believe.
This proves what I have been saying all along. The news media is a business first and foremost. Stories about heart disease, cancer and the rest in the first column don't generate sales like the stories of homicide, terrorism and suicide. As for the middle column, well my take is that it's a similar thing. Cancer and diabetes as well as suicide can drum up business with medical professionals and pharmaceuticals. Look at the ads when you do a search on say melanoma skin cancer, leukemia, depression, and type 2 diabetes. It's always all about the money!
I noticed the bbc had created almost daily stories of a 14 year old killed with a knife must be an internet thing but this sells ... youd think mainstream media wouldve detangled themselves from this style of reporting
hird is absolutely false - what is in the news it is in with a reason.
Day And Night In Barcelona
They temporarily switched the sun off on the right hand side of the city to get this photo.
I guess they took the photo when one of the alien mother ships was flying overhead?
This is one city I wish I could afford a helicopter tour. It's beautiful, day or night.
Bright and sunny at day w/ few lights on, but dark at night w/ a bunch of lights on!!! Mind blown!!!!
Wind Blown Patches Of Snow Cause A 3D Effect In Eastern Colorado
Progress in other areas such as navigation, ship design and construction, instruments for observation and astronomy, and general use of the compass helped to improve existing map information, as well as to encourage further exploration.
Eventually, geographic knowledge was profoundly increased during the 15th and 16th centuries as Columbus, da Gama, Vespucci, Cabot, Magellan, and others made their discoveries, gradually transforming the world maps of those days.
A Bar In Dc Made A Us Map From One Summer's Confiscated Fake Id's
Land Use Comparison Of A Typical European City And A North American City
we might have apartments instead of houses in Europe, but also we can walk pretty much anywhere, totally worth it!
Countries in Europe tend to be a tad smaller than America, so we make the best use of the space we have
Exactly. It's like people forget exactly how large the landmass of the US is. There's a LOT of space between cities. I can drive for six hours and still be in the same state and see nothing but small towns and pine trees.
Load More Replies...We also have plenty of land and like our space and privacy. I am not dunking on people in Europe but we don't have to emulate their way of life.
We do have it too. It's a comparison of cities only. In smaller cities and in the countryside we have a lot of space and big houses! But even there it's at a smaller scale, personally I like it better. Also we don't have many areas with the same houses lined up, a lot are old and so have their own design.
Load More Replies...U.S. Citizen here. Until I traveled around England decades ago, I didn't really understand what was meant by "urban sprawl." This isn't a fight between house and apartment mentality. In most of Europe there are plenty of country houses, and tiny towns dotting countries where you can still have space and country living. The difference is really that most of their cities STOP, whereas American cities sprawl out ad nauseum from cities to suburbs to false-rural before you get to what would be considered genuinely rural. In Europe you often have densely populated citiesm but then they END. They STOP. You get kilometers of beautiful countryside, THEN your clusters of houses in a village, or rural lanes in farmland. They still have both. They just separate city from country much better than the U.S.
European cities/towns also ingeniously use underground parking a lot. The US should do it!
What's all this talk about "walking anywhere" in Europe? Like we can't here in America? We've got tons of bike lanes, sidewalks, nature trails, etc. Our neighborhoods vary from close nit houses to sprawling mansions to high rise apartments...it just depends on where the location is.
I assume they mean that everything is in walking distance, whereas in a city that sprawls over more land, it's not as easy to walk everywhere.
Load More Replies...And still European cities all have sidewalks and bike lanes, despite having less space. I can walk anywhere I want. I prefer that to super big roads and big houses.
Great. Glad you are happy! Some of us prefer a spacious house and comfortable car. I am much happier in my 2200 square foot home than I was in a cramped, 875 square foot apartment in our downtown area. Yeah, I could walk almost anywhere, but did not have the room for my kid to run around, yard for family fun, gardening interests and cook outs, and fence for my dog to play and run as much as he wants. I can blast my music while cleaning and have no neighbor issues to worry about. I can change the look of my home, expand it, add to it...be creative. It is ALL about what we value and preference. One is not, IMO, better than the other.
Load More Replies...A great deal of European cities were just piles of rubble in 1945, which allowed government to re-zone and re-plan their layout. US cities mostly grew and expanded organically in the post-war era, which is harder to control.
We didnt rebuild cities after war. We just built what was destroyed. We didnt change city maps and build on the green grass. Of course our cities grow since :) but other ways than yours.
Load More Replies...I bet Bolivia, Peru or Paraguay isn´t like this. Totally inaccurate.
Detailed Replica Of Manhattan Carved Out In A 2.5 Tonne Block Of Marble
How The Solar System Travels Through The Galaxy
Dizzy! I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning. Like a whirlpool, it never ends. And it's you, girl, making it spin. You're making me dizzy!
You spin me right round baby right round, like a record player, round round right round
Load More Replies...So we're rotating, revolving, and spiraling. Now everything makes sense.
Here’s an amazing video on just this subject: https://youtu.be/IJhgZBn-LHg
If my teacher would have explained the way guy does, I would have understood tons of stuff. Thanks for the video link.
Load More Replies...There's a TikTok showing this in a 3d animation - it's pretty awesome.
looks like sun is going to an important meeting in a tv show walking down a hallways and all the other planets are the random coworkers with emergencies
Arguably the most important aspect of postmedieval maps was their increasing accuracy. It was made possible by continuing exploration.
Another significant characteristic was a trend toward artistic and colorful rendition, for the maps still had many open areas in which their creators could indulge their imagination. Interestingly, many maps of this age have become sought out collectors' items.
When Two City Planners Hate Each Other (Missoula, Montana)
It seems like a lot of downtowns were designed this way in the US. Denver is another where downtown is canted.
I live in Missoula. The "Slant Streets" came about when Missoula was actually two towns, divided by a river with no bridge. Each town had a mayor and planner that laid out the town their way. They merged in the early 1900's.
Downtown Los Angeles looks like this, too, and it comes down to two things: First, the difference between magnetic north and true north ("magnetic declination"). Second, the planner getting the magnetic declination wrong. In LA, the declination between magnetic and true north is something like 12 degrees east, more or less. The planner who laid out downtown LA knew that it was 12 degrees, but got the direction wrong, plotting everything 12 degrees WEST. That put the streets 24 degrees rotated from NS/EW. I would not be surprised if that same thing caused the skewing in many cities.
I was in Missoula a couple years ago and thought something was off. Glad I wasn't imagining that!
Look at a map of the area from about one hundred years ago. I suspect you'll see a railroad track at that angle and a village parallel to the track. Denver Colorado USA, Modesto California USA, etc. Denver removed the tracks decades ago.
It's not just Modesto in California, either. Up and down the San Joaquin Valley, from Ripon to Bakersfield. Nearly every downtown is aligned with the rails and the Golden State Highway.
Load More Replies...I would not be surprised to see our city like this either. For us it would be big squares of residential houses with circles elsewhere for amenities, shops, retails, etc. Everyone needs to ride on the larger road to get anything at all, which creates a lot of stuck traffic anywhere in town.
This may be due to the original city being non aligned with the compass points, then the city expands beyond the original city charter. My home city of Fresno, CA is the same. I am sure there are many cities like this.
A Guide To Chicago Home Styles
Out of curiosity. Which home style would you choose?
Load More Replies...We call it Tudorbethan, but I like pseud Tude better 🤣
Load More Replies...The bean has about 20 inches of clearance under it
Load More Replies...Exactly like the houses in "muh hood", Bronzeville, Southside Chicago. Boo-yah!
Aerial View Of The Planned City Of La Plata, Argentina
I wouldn't get lost here. It's a grid and those are easy to navigate. Well unless they have street names that are very similar.
The Timeline Of A Tree
Why are humans so ENDLESSLY destructive?! It makes me despair. So many things those of us alive right now have never seen and never will see - trees this size; huge flocks of birds; rivers silver with fish; endless waves of buffalo and bison on the prairies; truly clean air... all those things, and so much more, once existed. All gone now.
There are still a lot of trees this size. Just go to Sequoia National Forest or pretty much up and down the northern California coast.
Load More Replies...A reformation of cartography that evolved during the 18th century, however, popularized scientific trends and more accurate detail, thus replacing all the monsters, lions, and swash lines with factual content.
Soon the only decorative features were in the cartouche and around the borders. The map interiors contained all the increasing information available, often with explanatory notes and attempts to show the respective reliabilities of some portions.
Using The Statue Of Liberty To ‘Map’ How Copper Goes Through The Oxidation Process
Well the Statue was given to the US in 1884...most of those photos are from the very early 1900's...so most likely she was green by then...
Load More Replies...imagine the US calling frace after 4 months like "hey france what did you do to our statue its turning brown"
Same with the golden boy. I think 20 years ago it got goldleafed
I would have liked to seen it when it was new copper; as long as it didn't blind me.
Global Distribution Of Penguins
There have been some spotted in Pittsburgh, PA... (/s)
The Arc De Triomphe At The Center Of 12 Radiating Avenues In Paris, France
Was on the back of a bike with a friend in that traffic circle once. Took a while to work our way out. Mainly because we hadn't a clue where we were going :P
That happened to us in Washington DC; we couldn't get out of the circle! (finally after 2 hours, to be repeated again and again).
Load More Replies...My MIL is Parisian and took a picture of my husband - then 2 y.o. - with the Arc. Beautiful monument.
This, of course, has absolutely NO IMPACT on traffic flow or congestion.
Probably see cars endlessly circling,, the drivers too timid to break out.
Load More Replies...Paris is really hard to navigate. No right angles and lots of one-way streets.
The look of boredom and bitterness on drivers' faces around this place is absolutely unique.
Eight Minimalist Maps
The middle of Australia just disappears on the water maps.
I find the Lakes map most interesting, that huge cluster across North America.
Is it me, or do lakes and cities correlate in the southern hemisphere, but not the northern hemisphere?
If earlier mapmakers chased quick, profitable output based on information obtained from reports of travelers and explorers, the new French cartographers were scientists, often men of rank and independent means.
For expensive ventures, such as the triangulation of two degrees of a meridian to determine the Earth’s size more accurately, they were even subsidized by the king or the French Academy. Similar trends were emerging across all over Europe.
States With A Smaller Population Than Los Angeles County
This shows how foolish those maps are that purport to show high Republican support across the country. Land doesn't vote, people do. But you take a sparsely populated state and color the whole thing red and it looks like this. PEOPLE need representation, not stretches of soil between arbitrary borders.
A lot of those states with only get 3 electoral votes
Load More Replies...Well yes, each state has 2 senators. It's the House of Representatives that make the states unequal in representation because those are based on population, so California has 53 representatives and Wyoming has 1.
Load More Replies...You guys have the highest child mortality in the country….
Load More Replies...This map would be more meaningful if it only highlighted in blue those states that combine to have an equal population to LA county.
And yet all those states get 2 Senators apiece. This is why we are heading for the Second American Revolution (or the Second American Civil War; I'm not sure it really matters what we call it).
Not exactly correct. LA County had just over 10M in 2019. NC and GA had larger populations at the time, and still do.
How To Read Tree Rings. The Color And Width Of Tree Rings Can Provide Snapshots Of Past Climate Conditions
Train Cars Filled With Coal On Lambert's Point Pier 6 In Norfolk, Virginia
‘Nobody Lives Here’, 1x1km Areas In The United Kingdom Where The Reported Population Equals Zero
Making this public knowledge is highly dangerous! Now where's my kilt.....
Load More Replies...i live in Midlothian, but no one else does according to this.! i must tell my thousands of fellow citizens.
I used to work for Midlothian Council! In Dalkeith!
Load More Replies...No one lives in the River Mersey or Dee? Thst isn't a real surprise now is it!
It bugs me a bit when the Republic of Ireland is just missing from a map and Northern Ireland is just floating there like a disembodied head! Just use a different colour, it’ll be fine.
Now overlay that with the outlines of the UKs mountain ranges, wetlands and mining areas. Population just looks to be focused on areas that don't involve flattening nature reserves or building on flood planes. And the rest of the yellows are most likely farmland or marshland.
During the past few decades, there has been a growing interest in the automation of mapping processes, and considerable progress was made in this area.
But as we can see from the pictures, there's still plenty of creativity going into making maps.
Everyone In The World Could Fit Into A 50km Diameter Circle
For old science fiction fans: try 'Stand on Zanzibar' by John Brunner. Set in 2010, it considers overpopulation in extreme detail. Good read.
I wonder if they took into account the different sizes of people. Not in height but in width?
The assumption was 3.71 people per square meter, which honestly sounds more uncomfortable than the photo looks even if everyone is pretty thin. My guess is that it would get a lot less comfortable, though hardly impossible, if you accounted for actual weights... as long as you spread out the bigger people evenly and not tried to cram e.g. the 4 biggest into the same area as each other.
Load More Replies...Coincidentally, the line leading to Britain crosses the Falklands.
3.71 people per M^2 is pretty densely packed. This leaves really no room to move.
The North American Cryptid Map
I guess "Florida Man" is too scary to be included in this map.
Don't forget to take and share the pics with us here!!!
Load More Replies...Because deep down we all know the wendigo is real.
Load More Replies...Presumably due to its propensity to lick popes?
Load More Replies...Oklahoma octopus? But they aren't by the sea, is it a pond/river octopus?
don't try to use reason to figure out the "mystery" of cryptids.
Load More Replies...Thank you! I grew up just outside of Rhinelander so to see this missing made me sad lol
Load More Replies...The United Pixels Of America
If the USA was a game map? Where’s the boss fight and the loot locations?
the boss is a crazy man trying to destroy the country ... he lives in florida
Load More Replies...USA boss fight locations: white house, florida (several florida man minibosses leading up to THE florida man), mt. rushmore
Comparing Shipping Routes Through History: Before And After The Construction Of The Panama And Suez Canals
It's worth considering that the 'after' was from 1945. Things will have changed somewhat since then. It's also at the end of a world war so movements would have been abnormal, like looking at commuter habits during COVID
Paths Of 800 Unmanned Bicycles Being Pushed Until They Fall Over
Don't you hate it when you beard gets deformed from wearing a mask? Nobody talks about that
Load More Replies...I'm amazed that it's so symmetrical and regular. But I suppose since they used the same bike each time, having the exact same distance between the wheels, size of wheels, and weight of bike etc. offers some control in how it's able to turn and how quickly. Really interesting!
Gps Tracking Of Different Wolf Packs In Voyageurs National Park Minnesota Shows The Territoriality Of Wolves
The white line far off to the West? And South? That is Colin, he always runs away from his family over the smallest of arguments.
That red pack though. They're committed to that spot.
Load More Replies...Great Salt Lake, Utah
Famous Artworks Of European Nations
It's killing my eyes trying to make out Scotlands one so I've just decided it mackintosh
The UK is all one picture, I think it's The Fighting Temeraire by JMW Turner.
Load More Replies...Denmark: The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen
Load More Replies...We gave the nightwatch and starry night but that silly girl with the clampoop earring is featured? I really dislike that painting.
Geologic Time Scale
Cool fact I learnt hanging out and helping an archaeologist once cos I was bored. Australia - particularly Western Australia has unique soil compaction in which the ‘ time line has been squished over time’, so one metre of digging/sample shows a lot more of the timelines just squished so thin together compared to a European dig which would take kilometres to get to by comparison. It blew me away.
Venice, Italy, Which Is Situated Upon 118 Small Islands Separated By Canals And Linked By Bridges
Six Ways To Divide British Accents
How do you pronounce "one" and "won" so that they DON'T sound the same??
To be fair, I've been lumped in with Geordies and Scousers in all bar one of each, and I sound like neither.
Load More Replies...Central Park, New York Seen From Above
Fixing The United States Borders
Last major change was in 2017, I believe. I live in central NC far away from the border, so I wouldn't know too much.
Load More Replies...Even the people that live there feel a greater time to Wisconsin than Michigan… ‘eh?
Load More Replies...I love this! It looks so much cleaner. And the comments that go with it too.
Or the old colonial claims map. (Like the way NY was playing Connect Four with Massachusetts and made a good block....) Colonial-M...86fcc0.jpg
Waves Of The Pacific Ocean Rolling Into Shore In Antofagasta, Chile
The Boundary Between Scottsdale, Arizona, USA And The Salt River Indian Reservation
This is just sad. And yet at the same time, the reservation is preserving the land.
How Herd Immunity Works
Stupid question here - What exactly is this supposed to show? It just shows the percentage of vaccinated people versus unvaccinated with one point of infection in each graph. It certainly doesn't show herd immunity, much less how herd immunity works. If I'm the stupid one, please let me know. Right now, it doesn't make sense, doesn't prove a point, maybe funny if it means anything, but at least they manage to show correct percentage of yellow versus blue. Good job? Maybe if the infection point was red. Oh what do I know? I'm the stupid one after all.
Dark blue is infected, lighter blue is unvaccinated, yellow is vaccinated. You're not stupid, it's just hard to see :)
Load More Replies...Need more numbers - how many are infected at one time? Further parameters? Contagious time, speed, size of persons compared to area they're in, duration of infection, infectiousness, ... Anyway, keeping them constant for all, having a number of infected would show that, in every case, having X+ % vaccinated prevents MORE than X % of infections, with X depending on these parameters and how accurate they're able to represent actual reality. Modeling stuff is great for general impressions of cause and effect, but need to be verfified, in order to predict correctly and therefore be able to chose sufficent and effective measures. Side effects could also be modeled, as impact on economy, even happiness, ... ....... To be able to chose those with best effect vs impact ratio.
World Population Percentages (2017)
It always amazes me how many people are in Bangladesh considering how small of a country it is.
With just about 6million people I'm gonna say we're lumped into the grey bit
Austria here, we got up to 9 million this month. Still part of the grey goo :/
Load More Replies...Me trying to find the UK. Me failing. Me trying to find Ghana. Failing again.
USA's population will go down along with many poor, undeveloped countries. (USA isn't poor and is developed in technology and medicine, but it's the Covidiots who are making this pandemic still last.) China's will go down a little bit because the birth rate is low and most of its population lives in packed eastern cities. India's will go down a lot because of its less developed, overpopulated parts, but it'll go right back up with its insanely high birth rate of 2.2 children per woman.
Load More Replies...The Plaza Del Ejecutivo In The Venustiano Carranza District Of Mexico City, Mexico
Ok so this is a grid of sorts but I guarantee you that I would get majorly lost here! There are too many options.
It looks cool from above, but I would hate to drive here. We have one major roadway in my city that intersects at that sort of angle and I avoid it like the plague. For single-lane streets it's not big deal, but for busy multi-lane roadways it's too hard to tell where all the lanes are supposed to enter on the other side of the intersection.
Separated At Birth - Similarities In Geographic Shapes
To be fair California is just a couple puzzle pieces (states) south of British Columbia.
Wisconsin and Tanzania look like 2 guys looking up at something. WI uttering something about wev it is they're looking at.
All The Time Zones Of The World Without A Basemap
Abstract Map Of The World In The Style Of Piet Mondrian
Simplified American Skylines
Landlocked States, Provinces And Territories Of North America
Ah, yes not landlocked, landlocked, doubly landlocked and 𝙉𝙀𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙎𝙆𝘼
I am from and live in Michigan. How is it landlocked? The Saint Lawrence seaway. Anyone? It connects our Great Lakes to the Atlantic. Its been around for some time now...... Also how is Michigan land locked when we are a peninsula? Two of them actually.
Funky Nebraska story... We lived in Nebraska for awhile, and one day whilst visiting the Kool-Aid Museum in Hastings, NE, I commented to a woman there how much a missed the trees and woods of my native Pennsylvania. I said I found it disconcerting how as soon as I left any given town in NE all I saw were miles of fields and prairie, etc. I said it felt very exposed and lonely. She practically spit fire at me, snapping "You and your TREE TUNNELS! I drove in the east once, and it was like being in a prison of trees! How can you feel safe with all those TREES all over you!? I drove for miles and miles through tunnels of trees! It was horrible! You can keep it!" It was an enlightening view of perception (and perhaps a bit of insight into her own relationship with claustrophobia.)
I went to school in Nebraska. It was depressing knowing how far I was from an ocean (grew up near the Pacific).
Culinary Map Of Europe According To Italy
And "Fake Pasta" should be "Original Pasta, but not in a good way"
Load More Replies...Stop with the Scotland has crap food nonsense - some of the best salmon, beef, venison, seafood etc comes from here - and haggis is awesome. As are stovies, Cullen skink, scotch pies, cranachan, shortbread, tunnocks tea cakes, scones, tablet - loads of stuff. Food is awesome. I love food
i'd take whatever a Mexican dude made with a goat and a tortilla over the best Italian food any day.
I don't think that chart makes any sense - you don't have to be cautious when eating in Sweden or Northern Germany, at least I have never been and never gotten sick either, despite living in this very area
I don't think they meant "caution is advised" in a sense of hygiene.
Load More Replies...A Tour Through All Contiguous United States
I hope one day I can either rent or buy an RV and travel this path. I have been to all of the east coast and all of the southern states but not a lot of the ones in the middle and the north. I think it would be a lot of fun! Who's with me?
I'm with you! Just, go in the fall so you don't overheat and die in Texas.
Load More Replies...It annoys me that they went through Oklahoma twice: Missouri > Oklahoma > Texas > Oklahoma > Kansas. They could've gone Texas > New Mexico > Colorado > Kansas and around
I would love a road trip like this one. RV would be my first choice. From Canada, we did most of the upper states and ended-up on the side in Cape Cod and it took us ~7 days with a huge RV for two. Then came back home again in a more straight line.
Visualizing The Height Of The World’s Tallest Tree
World Map In Mario Style
If I were a video game character, this is where I would want to live.
I’ve never seen that creepy looking archipelago west of Australia before.
The son instantly played in my head as I imagined crossing from Norway to Greenland
The Cafeteria Menu Designer’s Guide To Stereotypical Fonts
A Map Of The Continental USA Made Of 550 Pounds Of Cast-Iron Skillets
I love stuff like this where you collect all the peices . I think it was lithuania Where they have a magnet for each city that you can only buy in that city so you have to go everywhere to complete your map
They couldn't be arsed to put the pan handles in the correct position of states with panhandles??
Trucks At The Port Of Los Angeles
The Smallest Country vs. The Tallest Building
The Vatican has only just raised the age of sexual consent to 18, from 12.....
Load More Replies...I always thought that the Vatican is not technically a country but more of an independent city/state and still part of Italy.
It's an enclave completely surrounded by Italy, but still a country
Load More Replies...London Underground Map As Seen From Above, With Additional Tube Schematic Maps
This us awesome. I once walked one of the routes above ground as best as I could for fun, back in the day.
This is actually really cool. Surprised it isn't higher. Wondering how many people just got bored with the repetitive or crappy maps not to get this far down to vote.
Greece - The Series
Yeah. Like Netflix's Cowboy Bebop live series. What a piece of crap.
Load More Replies...What Is The Roundest Country?
#6 isn't really a country though, it's a disputed territory claimed by PRC and the Philippines.
Sad Topography
Historical And Present Day Range Of The African Lion
This breaks my heart too. I know that there are a few reasons to why this is happening. I just wish there was something we could do to increase the numbers. These lions are such majestic creatures
Huh. I had no idea lions roamed in southern Europe way back when. You learn something every day.
If I Could Live Anywhere, I Would Choose The Example Map From Geography Books That Explains What Everything Is Called
You Can Theoretically Drive In A Straight Line From Anchorage To Miami Without Crossing Over Any Major Body Of Water Due To The Curvature Of The Earth
A Different Form Of “Mind Mapping”. Instagrammer @zaaakk Had 30 People Draw A Map Of The World From Memory And Digitally Merged The Results
I wonder how many of those 30 people might have been Italian. Edit, Japan and the Korean peninsula are pretty accurate as well.
Load More Replies...I guess as islands they got moved around a lot and ultimately merged with the main landmass. The whole Batic Sea disappeared, too (for one). On the other hand Spain and Africa got ripped apart so far the Mediterranean looks like a bay 😄 judging by the level of accuracy the 30 people came from Japan
Load More Replies...Parts of the map are suspiciously accurate Italy, Greece, Korean peninsula...
My memory and visualization of the world map is pretty good. My drawing skill.... not so much. "This circle here is North America, this triangle is Central America... this boot here is Italy..."
Central Park, Manhattan Aerial View
Wrong shape for Bezos, he likes things more phallic.
Load More Replies...Oh I have gotten lost here so many times! I remember going to see Garth Brooks there in 1997. I got all the way up to the 3rd row! OMG was that an awesome concert!
How many know Golden Gate Park (1017 acres, roughly 3 miles long by 1/2 mile wide) is larger that Central Park (843 acres, 2.5 miles long by 1/2 mile wide.
The Gastrointestinal System Represented As A Subway Map
Did you know that the appendix is no longer important to us so we can just remove it if we feel like it or if it becomes ill
Different Biomes At Varying Temperatures And Levels Of Humidity
I've lived in a boreal forest. It's wonderful. Winter's a b***h though.
Load More Replies...Map Of Space Without The Space
Greenland Extends Farther East, West, North, And South Than Iceland
You Guys vs. Y’all In The United States
As a northern brit this is accurate. Down south.it's more like "hello old chap."
Load More Replies..."Youse guys" is another one I've heard a lot in the CT, RI, NY area.
I lived in Maryland until I was around 13. Moved to New Mexico and lived there on and off for the next 20ish years. I have also lived in Connecticut and California too. I have said Y'all or Ya'all all my life. None of those states are in the "Y'all" states. Go figure!
California As Seen By La
Curious---am I the only person perpetually irritated by the use of LA as opposed to L.A.? (At least the map itself got it right.) Oh, and don't even get me started on the titular use of La.
The Contiguous United States Compared To Various Places
Lol, I was confused bc I read contagious instead of contiguous at first...
They should have placed Austria above Kentucky, like the little Kentucky Fried Chicken leg it is.
It’s not a KFC leg, it‘s obviously a Wiener Schnitzel!,
Load More Replies...Minimalist Map Of The Contiguous United States
The Dutch Holiday Diaspora: A Map Of The Roads Dutch People Use For Their Holidays. Every Blue Dot Is One Person Using A Traffic App
Texas Fits Into Queensland Very Neatly. (True To Scale, Corrected For Projection Distortion)
Don't forget, if you visit Australia from Texas you have to be shocked by this fact. The tour guides expect it.
Having lived in both Texas and Queensland, I will take Australia, thanks.
Wow so a two day drive (casually of course with proper breaks and overnight stay in motel etc).
Cars Winding Down The Hill Of Lombard Street In San Francisco, California. With Eight Hairpin Turns Dispersed Over A One-Block Section In The Russian Hill Neighborhood, Lombard Is Often Referred To As “The Most Crooked Street In The World”
Vermont Street, also in San Francisco, is actually more crooked. Lombard is just more famous.
Are there any fans of the movie Venom? Y' all should recognize this very street then =)
Maybe in US but highly unlikely the most crooked road in the world.
Europe If Sea Levels Rise A Couple Hundred Metres
Geologic Time
If America Were 50 States Of Equal Population Broken Up By Longitude
So part of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico would be mostly land? Interesting!
Location Of Every City Founded By The Roman Empire Outside Of Italy
Some (a lot) are missing. In turkey, africa, and other countries
Yes, pretty much every city in SE France was founded by Romans. Except Marseille which was founded by Greek colonists even earlier (around 600 BC).
Load More Replies...Strange that the frontier colonies that were abandon first kept the most of the Roman cities.
Many more in fact : every city name beggining or ending with ''ville'' in France ( like ''Villeneuve'' ) comes from ''villa'' in latin meaning ''city''
America’s Most Searched “How To Spell” Per State
So much to discover! Mary Poppins fans in West Virginia and Connecticut, for example. Why do people in Mississippi need to look up "nanny"? New Mexico: "banana"? Seriously?
Why does Wisconsin have to google how to spell Wisconsin??? It is literally the name of our state! It is even that hard, just SOUND IT OUT!
Load More Replies...As a non-native English speaker there words seem quite easy to spell. With the exception of that Mary Poppins song...
I mean, some spell it grey, so maybe they wanted to know?
Load More Replies...Interesting WaPo discussion of this from the year this map came out (2017): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/31/googles-breakdown-of-what-americans-dont-know-how-to-spell-state-by-state/
“Australia Arise! Save Her From This Shame!” A First World War Propaganda Map Showing A German Australia
Probably make better sense that way! ( from an Aussie)
Load More Replies...Massive fail. My German ancestors fought and died in WW1 as proud Australians
Propaganda 🤷♀️ might call it PR or advertising, too. Either way not much truth to it
Load More Replies...Wow I didn’t see these ones, only the Japan ones 😝 ironic considering a lot of us are immigrants from Germany or surrounding /various areas in my peoples cases
Chicago To Chicagoans
The Us Separated Into Distinct Regions
Florida - the further north you drive, the further south you get!
Load More Replies...Love how Texas is a region yet parts of Texas are in 4 other regions. And Florida is also split.
And then there’s Nevada. Which doesn’t even get the courtesy of a label. (Nvm I just saw it’s the Great Basin region but it’s a joke)
Finally somebody is breaking up Pennsylvania correctly. People usually lump us into the Mid-Atlantic (great for Philly and PA-east), or the ORV (as shown ONLY applicable for NW PA. Didn't know about the NE Highlands (makes sense), but ABSOLUTELY yes to the Appalachia region, which too many people neglect our SW part of Pennsylvania from, but which is culturally spot on (with the exception of Pittsburgh which is its own bubble of Heinz-57 culturally, ethnically, etc.)
Points In The Red Section Are Closer To Somewhere In Texas Than The Opposite Sides Of Texas Are To Each Other
I once flew from Milwaukee to El Paso, Tx. There was a stop to change planes in Dallas, Tx. The flight from MIL to DAL took 2:25, while the flight from DAL to ELP took 1:55! Just a bit shorter flight, and never leaving Texas.
Load More Replies...The Flag Of The United States Through History
I never knew there were circles like the 1867-1877 alternate version. Plenty too.
Yep. They stand for our original 13 colonies, so they arent going to be changed, most likely.
Load More Replies...A Cheat Sheet For Figuring Out Where In The United States You Are By Recognizing The Background From Movies
Brokeback mountain is incorrect. It was filmed just outside of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Nobody in Wyoming would recognize anything as being Wyoming, cause it isn't.
Anything by Mark Twain is incorrect, too. He was from northern Missouri, originally
Load More Replies...Johnny Cash was born and raised in Arkansas, Walk the Line was even partially filmed in Forrest City Arkansas and Northeastern Arkansas
Aww what a shame they didn't represent Pennsylvania with "Night of the Living Dead." So iconic. So Pennsylvania (yes, complete with zombies.)
I feel the same way about 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and Alabama
Load More Replies...Pet Cemetery and they missed the perfect opportunity to use the "Live free or die hard" phrase (NH state motto- "live free or die")
The book is called "Pet Sematary". It is supposed to be a child's spelling of the word "cemetery"
Load More Replies...Virginia’s Territorial Claims Over The Years
So you're saying the Virginia should invade West Virginia? 🤔
Load More Replies...But Wisconsin was a part of the "Old Northwest" when that territory broke away from Virginia.
Load More Replies...United States Passport Ownership
There's only one black state. They are not going anywhere. The odd one takes a vacation overseas.
It's interesting how low the northern border states are. You can't even be bothered to visit Canada?
Didn't used to need a passport to go from USA to Canada; have things changed?
Load More Replies...A trip to the store takes you to another country in Europe. We can travel 3,000 miles and still be in the lower 48. That's how.
Load More Replies...9 Ways To Divide Colorado
After living here for 30+ years, I can attest to the accuracy of all of these maps. Believe me you don't want to live south of Greeley during a hot summer day due to the stock yards.
Map Of Every American And Every European City
This is not the European map, just the American one.
Load More Replies...Countries For The Americas By The Largest Foreign Nationality
Im totally lost lol. So many Mexicans in the US and so many Americans in Mexico. What am i supposed to be looking at? I am legit asking, im confused af lol
So it's not saying these are the majority populations, but the highest population of people not born in that country. For instance, the majority of foreigners living in Mexico are from the US. The majority of foreigners living in Canada are apparently from China, etc.
Load More Replies...The Coastline Paradox
T-O Map Of The World
Let me Google that for you : "A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents the physical world as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae."
Load More Replies...I want to see the world divided so that every country has the same population - and that could be used for international competitions. Maybe also a map that allocates the same wealth to each country, for alternate years at those competitions, just to make it more fair.
Some of these are quite interesting, some I just got lost more than anything, and most are beautiful in colors. A few were hilarious.
What is Agony Island????? It's been on the header image all day but isn't on the list!!
This list actually made me realize how much I've learned in geography this year for some reason
I want to see the world divided so that every country has the same population - and that could be used for international competitions. Maybe also a map that allocates the same wealth to each country, for alternate years at those competitions, just to make it more fair.
Some of these are quite interesting, some I just got lost more than anything, and most are beautiful in colors. A few were hilarious.
What is Agony Island????? It's been on the header image all day but isn't on the list!!
This list actually made me realize how much I've learned in geography this year for some reason
