40 Unusual And Fascinating Maps That Might Change Your Perspective On The World (New Pics)

This is so cool!

Very very very very very long and thin.

Looks smaller than I'd imagined

Ahh the US and health care - right up there with Papua New Guinea whose minimum wage is $51 usd

It is the cycling heaven here. I admit that the country being flat as a pancake helps :-)

I'm Dutch and I can tell you that most people in the Netherlands don't care if you refer to all of it as Holland. In fact I think that Holland sounds a little better than the Netherlands.

I kind of disappointed that there isn't more red in the 2022 map.

Why do I sense bias?

This is really interesting!

Isn't it odd that the county with most believers is also one of the worst for helping people less fortunate (eg US and healthcare), how does this make sense?!

Isn't this during the Holy Roman Empire?

Putin: "We need more land for our people"

Because it's a desert with green bits round the edge

Go scratch the armpits of an earthworm :') I love it

This is so ridiculous, it's beyond stupid... What a POS that fat, a*s-ugly son of a wh.... is.

Note: 4,000 km is the radius of the circle, not (as the positioning implies) the circumfrence. Greetings from its northeastern edge.

The problem with the UK is the teaching of languages. For decades it was always Latin. But the teaching I had trying to learn French and German always felt like I was juggling chainsaws on fire whilst being harassed by a very indignant goose.

I would suspect that this is due to great increase of android phones, tablets that usually come with pre-installed chrome browser in combination to the great change in users' habits (we all use phones to browse rather than pcs). Of course, chrome is very fast in browsing...

I'm surprised with China. I thought they would be on Russia's side.

Nice job !

There must be a story behind this.

I was in Uganda and was amazed that there were people everywhere. Got talking to a local and mentioned I did search and rescue. In his experience he could not understand how you could get lost, all you had to do was ask someone where you were.

I think the US should rank a little lower based on how things have been going lat

I'm Spanish and I often go to England. their dinner is my afternoon snack :,)

I live in a lighter green area, and we always have a lot of discussions on how our roads are dangerous. I can't imagine living in the red or grey areas. That is terrible!

From a European perspective, it always surprises me how far south everything is in North America and Asia. I would have guessed New York is on the same latitude as London. And Pyongyang and Beijing same as Oslo.

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go finland

re-title this map as "A Utter Disgrace."

Impressive.

I can’t get used to UK not being on the EU maps.

Since me moving to France the average when up a percentage or two ;)

Hm, in Germany you are usually offered food. Was just thinking about how it is up north of Germany, can't really say but in middle and south you are offered!

In southern Italy not only you'll be offered food, you'll practically be forced to accept. Luckily it will usually be excellent. If there's a grandmother involved, the quantity of food will grow exponentially.

In England you’ll definitely be offered tea or coffee If you’re lucky it will come with biscuits!

The Netherlands here, I have never experienced this in my (way over half a century) life! Very odd. The first thing you hear when you enter someone's house is " coffee? " With cookies or cake, and around dinner time, " do you want " this or that " ?

I can confirm that you always get food as a visitor in Turkey. My husband is Turkish and eben in his friends shops we are usually served as least tea. Don’t even get me started on when we are at his grandmas place :-D

I'd be curious to see a map of the US broken down like this. As a country of immigrants, it's common to find cultural traits clustered around where immigrant populations eventually settled, so I wonder if in some states offering guests food is more or less common. In my own limited experience, only having lived in three different states, two in the New England area, offering at least something to drink and munch on, but not necessarily a full meal, is very common.

Slovaks will definitely offer coffee/tea, maybe a snack. But definitely alcohol! 11 AM? Cheers! 11 PM? Cheers!

I have always been offered at least a cup of coffee and a pastry when visiting people in Sweden.

Where does the OP of Panda get these silly statistics. It is totally wrong!

I'd love to catch the ferry from Southern England to Iceland.

This isn't right! You would have a tea or coffee offered, usually with biscuits, in the British Isles.

I think the more relevant question (based on the Sweden kerfuffle) is whether you would be invited to join the family meal as an uninvited guest.

Interesting, the dutch will offer you a cookie whith your coffee jf you come uninvited, but no dinner. However, when they invite you for dinner, they might give you a festive mail and go out of their way to provide you.

Total bull. I wonder what "statistics" this is based on. Of course we offer guests food in Sweden.

what is the red splotch to the left of France? There's no country there...

Thing is, when you are asking if people get offereras food, there will be a vast sea of interpetations on what that means. Here in Sweden, a cup of coffee/milk/juice/tea with some cookies or a bun is not concidered food. If you ask a Swede, we will say no because we did not offer a proper dinner with all the bells and whistles.

As for kids friends: Depends on the circumstances! Do they live nearby? Are they a close friend? Were the parents asked if the friend could stay for dinner? Are that persons parents expecting them home for dinner? (Likely)

This just makes no sense to me in the usa. If your child has a friend over for a sleepover duh you feed them. My gfs daughter is going to an amusement park, we gave them a few bucks. But if they invite them then yeah you hafta feed them.