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40 Surprising Maps That Show A Completely Different Side To The World We Live In (New Pics)
Who doesn't love a good map? I'd even say we'd get lost without one. They enrich our understanding of the world in a simple, visual way.
Maps teach us not only about the size and shapes of countries but also show many more interesting things, like earthquake locations and wealth distribution. The local status of gay marriage or car reliance. Pretty much everything we have data on!
So let's revisit this subreddit for a new dose of cartography — it hits just as strong as the previous ones.
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#1
Lithuania Has Made A Map Of Magnets In Which Each Magnet Can Only Be Found In A Specific Area, To Boost Tourism, Specifically Local Tourism. (Credit To Demilked)
Na Schi 2 years ago
As an absolute fan of fridge-magnets I will so buying this whenever I happen to be in Lithuanian and a specific region! Love the idea ❤️
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago
As I go to each state, I get a state-shaped magnet from there, so I'm building a map of the United States. They won't all fit together so perfectly, because they can't be of the same scale since Texas is like 50 times larger than Delaware or Rhode Island. I'm probably never going to all 50 states, since it's a few thousand kilometers to go a Western state, but it's fun anyway
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Me too I bought a magnetic map in Gettysburg but only have east coast And California filled in
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#2
Outline Of The World By Mapping All Lighthouses (Osm Data, Oc)
LK 2 years ago
Wow, the UK, Ireland and continental Europe are all exceptionally well defined in this map.
Purple light 2 years ago
Love light houses. I always want to see it if I'm in a town that has one. We have many in the Netherlands. Many are defunct now, but still gorgeous historical landmarks.
Old Roadie 2 years ago
We tried to get a lighthouse dedicated to POW/MIA... a symbolic light for them to follow home. Politicians wouldn't do it.
howdylee 2 years ago
why are the Great Lakes so lit up? I didn't think there were THAT many lighthouses!
Michael MacKinnon 2 years ago
In brief: lots and lots of traffic; lots and lots of shipwrecks. Not a surprise. ...Personally, I'm wondering what the ones in Alberta / Saskatchewan are doing there...even the ones in Manitoba (bits of Lake Winnipeg, the seaport in Churchill) make more sense..
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The creator of this online group, Patrick McGranaghan, described himself in a previous Bored Panda article on the subreddit as a "Denver-based techno-geek with a focus on all things geospatial and cartographic and a coding hobbyist with an emphasis on geospatial applications."
He is a land surveyor and a member of #maptime Denver, Rocky Mountain Map Society, NACIS, PLSC, Charles Close Society, and Open Street Map Foundation, just to name a few. He decided to share his passion with the world and start the project in May 2011 while living in Taiwan, and the rest is history.
#3
Countries Where It Is Illegal To Spank/Smack Children (700x700)
Alicia M 2 years ago
I don't think being physically violent with children is ever a way to teach them good behavior.
Jesha 2 years ago
I assure y'all, nobody has ever started to respect a parent who smacked them. What they learned from that is fear. Of you.
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I’mSoEmotional 2 years ago (edited)
It’s about time this passes in the U.S.! Hitting a child only shows how out of control the adult is. Children learn nothing from being hit except fear.
Zophra 2 years ago
This will never pass in USA while Christian Conservatives are still quoting the "spare not the rod" verse in their justification.
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Kelly Jones 2 years ago
My kids were obviously being abused by my ex. It was clear. I believe their doctor reported. CPS did nothing. People who are the kind of parents who will spank their kids are often violent abusers. Even if spanking your kids were illegal law enforcement & CPS wouldn’t enforce the law. America is a very dangerous place to be (and particularly Texas) if you are a child with an abusive parent.
Kevin Thompson 2 years ago
Love the especially Texas. What a good thing to be known for, hitting kids, teachers with guns, people with no license no need for a carry permit for guns. I mean, come on, could there be a better state in the union?
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They don’t enforce child protective law in the US anyhow. Watch the Trials of Gabriel Gonzalez story on Netflix, please. It’s terrible to think about child abuse but we need a mass awakening & action to make CPS & law enforcement to enforce the law. He was a beautiful little boy who went to school with burns & bruises all over him, including on his head. He was obviously being very seriously abused. May Gabriel Gonzalez rest in peace.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
That was awful. A Child Called It also happened in California
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Pride Bean️ 2 years ago
Spanking/smacking children should be illegal everywhere. It can be classed as child abuse or physical abuse
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Proof that humans are just fancy apes, there's àssholes on here defending why hitting a child is okay.
Monday 2 years ago
I mean South Africa is on this but it's not enforced. You're not getting punished for spanking your child unless you're leaving marks. You will however get into some s**t for spanking someone else's child. Probably not arrested though.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Someone else hits my kid then I'm catching a charge.
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Andreas H 2 years ago (edited)
From the german perspective: yes. Except Sweden. Sweden is lost.
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What Year Is It Right Now?
David H 2 years ago
Some of these countries use both year systems, Israel for example uses both the Hebrew and Gergorian (so for buying alcohol or other things, whichever birthday comes first, you can use), and for official government documents, they also ad the Islamic Hegeri, not not for all things, since that lunar calendar does not adjust. So technically they use 3
Majungasaurus 2 years ago
Honestly I went to Thailand a few months ago, and when I googled things I noticed the date had changed to 2565, I had no idea they had a different calendar 😅 every actual calendar I saw still said 2022 so I’m assuming they use both too
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Basically a map of the world's religions, and the chinese couldn't be bothered to argue with the christians becasue they mostly want to trade with them.
#5
A Population Density Map Of Illinois
parmadillo 2 years ago
One does not simply walk into the urban jungles of Chicago
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Alicia M 2 years ago
And many of the people of Illinois are still annoyed that Illinois is a blue state. They think grass should be equally represented in Congress.
Brittany Grawe 2 years ago
Racists, sexists, homophobes, and the greedy are the only people upset that illinois is a blue state.
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LJ Robinson 2 years ago
Come on Oh, baby don't you wanna go? Come on Oh, baby don't you wanna go? Back to that same old place Sweet home Chicago -The Blues Brothers-
Patrick revealed that while the community was pretty stable in the past, everything changed the morning when Russia invaded Ukraine.
"The subreddit usually has between 2,000 and 4,000 users at a given moment on a normal day. That number spiked to a peak of over 20,000 users looking for ... maps of the situation there," he told us.
#6
Mediterranean Sea Fits Inside Australia - Should Be A Much Better Image Than Last One
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
There is (or was) a huge amount of water in the outback. It was unfortunately artesian (underground). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Artesian_Basin Unfortunately we appear to be draining it quicker than it refills.
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Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
Why have they put the Mediterranean inside a country that doesn't exist?
Erin Grant 2 years ago
So you could put the Mediterranean inside Australia and still not lose any habitatable areas
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
Ah, the 'Great Inland Sea' that the early European explorers dreamed of...
Kerstin & Bill Fraser 2 years ago
It's a pity the sea, any sea, wasn't there when Burke and Wills carried a boat across the desert. It would have saved a lot of walking.
No Name 2 years ago
Fun fact: in the late 1800s, European colonizers briefly thought there was an inland sea in the Outback that helped sustain the Indigenous population. One expedition sent to look for it (among other things) based on (poorly interpreted) information they got from locals got where they we told to go and found...a dried up vernal pool basin. Which they named Lake Disappointment.
BenMaharaj 2 years ago
This map was only mildly interesting the first time. After the 10 thousandth time I’m getting a little tired of seeing it.
#7
Someone Here Posted A Map Of Earthquakes Since 1900(Top One) Now Watch It 1by1 To The Map Of Actual Tectonic Plates(Bottom One)
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Especially since tectonic plate boundaries are literally defined by earthquakes. "Hey, there's a lot of Earthquakes here... we'll identify this as a tectonic plate boundary!"
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Molly Whuppie 2 years ago
I mean yes we all knew this, but it is pretty interesting to see it laid out on a map clearly visible.
Iampenny 2 years ago
Mindblown!!! (NOT) I learned this a young child, I thought this was common knowledge.
Jihana 2 years ago
No reason to be snarky. Plate tectonics are a fairly recent discovery.
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Jeremy James 2 years ago
Yesterday, I learned that the eastern part of Africa is pulling apart from the rest of the continent and will someday cause the formation of a new sea.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
As you can see, New Zealand is not so much left off the map but totally obscured
RandomHumanBean 2 years ago
Well yeah, that's literally how earthquakes and tectonic plates work.
#8
1920 Australian Map Of Sheep
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
It is! Went there as a kid, would love to go again.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
"Some sheep" is a little vague. But the people in charge of the exact count keep coming down with narcolepsy. No one knows why.
Hannah Hudson-Lee 2 years ago
I want to cut it into hexagons and play Settlers of Catan with it. (Hopefully I will get wood for those sheep).
#9
Where Does The World's Population Of 8 Billion Live?
Julie Snelling 2 years ago
Does Australia have so few people because it doesn't actually exist?
Harlan Sarvis 2 years ago
When you realize California has a greater population than Canada...💀
P.C. 2 years ago
Maybe I’m safer than I thought! In terms of being tracked down
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Isa's left eye 2 years ago
I'm probably going to be downvoted, but what I don't understand is why people keep having kids when there's not enough resources being distributed to give them a good life? Why do people have kids even when they can't afford them? /g
Humansarethevirus 2 years ago
Ugh world is grossly overpopulated with scummy humans destruction and evil
Tamra 2 years ago
There are also wonderful, kind, creative people who are doing good every day. Although I do understand the occasional bout of hopelessness.
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When it comes to the way people think about cartography, the founder of the subreddit believes it's currently going through a period of change.
"The previous generation was accustomed to paper maps that they used to navigate. This required skills in orientation and awareness that are no longer necessary with digital maps on mobile devices. Whilst there are lots of articles that eulogize the loss of these skills, I don't think it's necessarily all bad," he explained.
#10
Here Is A 1988 Map Of Berlin (Produced In The Ddr)
DC 2 years ago
I lived, worked and wrote my diploma thesis in a blank area in 1.5 years, and somehow must have taken a huge load of hallucinogenes - it appeard populated and full of buildings, roads, railways, parks and all that.......
User# 6 2 years ago
Nonsense. It's not a map of Berlin, it's part of a map of the former DDR. It is completely normal to not include forreign countries in maps.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
"Ddr" [sic] = DDR = Deutsche Democratische Republik, known in the English speaking west as "GDR"
Ethan Longworth 2 years ago
Thanks! I could only think "dance dance revolution"!
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Bruce Horton 2 years ago
I crossed from the blank area into east Berlin. The east was a depressing police state, with people randomly stopped by cops and nothing to eat in stores. The eastern side of the wall was truly frightening, knowing I would be shot for stepping into no man's land.
Larry XK 2 years ago
I watched a very interesting video from 1984 about how to travel by car from West Germany to West Berlin. It was produced by the RMP (Royal Military Police ) for British service members. What was shocking to learn that the British military personnel was forbidden to show their documents to East German soldiers, they were only allowed to communicate with Soviet border guards.
#11
Number Of Ukrainian Refugees Displaced In Europe In February 2023
DC 2 years ago (edited)
I wish they would flood any and every public ... thing the putin-friends of our furthest right of the relevant parties, the AfD, are conducting, and teach them some common sense. Ok, they're rightwingers leaning well into radical (not all members are radical, but you can't remain a member without at least finding the publicly known radicalism to be acceptable), so we cannot expect them to be of the brightest kind... But I don't see how it requires much thought or thinkability to understand that invading other countries, unprovoked and against every contract, promise and rights, is wrong by any and every means.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
I think the overall majority here in Germany isn't against taking in Ukranian refugees, the main issue are immigrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East that make right wing parties all over Europe relevant. That the government doesn't want to acknowledge that not everybody is the same only will result in a bigger rejection of any kind of refugee policy overall. (My perspective as somebody that doesn't stand on any political side)
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Alexia 2 years ago
I volunteered at the railway stations when the war started, as many of them transited Romania, which has the larger border with Ukraine. I'll never forget a girl who got down the bus, realized she was finally safe, and started crying hysterically, repeating to us: "I'll do what you say, I'll go where you want me to - just don't send me back there!!" We later found out that she had been raped several times by invaders, and her mother had been executed. :(
TheBadHalfofHel 2 years ago
I don't even know how to reply, except to say thank you for your humanity.
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Pride Bean️ 2 years ago
I seriously think that the invasion of ukraine is absolutely disgusting and putin should be ashamed of his actions
Invisible Potato 2 years ago
this map need a "saturation" or "refugees comapred to native in %" because there are 83,2 milions of Germans and 1,05 mil of Ua, while in czech its 10 milions of Czechs and 0,49 mil of UA....
QuanτumSpace2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣ 2 years ago
o7 to whatever country takes in Ukrainian refugees, past, present and future
Larry XK 2 years ago
And the ultra right wing dumbfux like Boebert and Marjorie Traitor Greene plus tRump think Putin is a genius.
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#12
The World In 250 Million Years
Amo Gus 2 years ago
Uh, according to my science class, the mid-atlantic ridge sits on a divergent plate boundary and the Pacific plate is surrounded by covergent plates... but that info might be inaccurate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bronze Republic 2 years ago
You are correct, this map os wrong. The Atlantic is growing and Pacific shrinking.
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Bronze Republic 2 years ago
As people have pointed out, this map is wrong. The Pacific is shrinking and the Atlantic is growing. The resulting continent is to be named Amasia.
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
Amasia is an amazingly good name for that though…
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Joe Average 2 years ago
Wow border control will certainly change. Don't tell the folks who want a southern wall...
Loverboy 2 years ago
Humans will have all died out by then, as well as a lot of plant and animal life if we continue this way.
T. 2 years ago
Well it's sad a lot of species will die with us, but after, new ones will be evolving in peace. And maybe the next human-like (in terms if capabilities) species will have more respect for nature's wonders.
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Salty Sasquatch 2 years ago
Ummm, no. I believe I've read that the west coast of North and South America are very slowly moving toward the east coast of China and other Asian companies. One of the reasons there are a lot of earthquakes along those coastlines.
howdylee 2 years ago
Florida will go from sea level to space level :) Beach view to mountain view woohoo!
JustAnotherPanda (she/them) 2 years ago
I don’t think this is right, they would move more far apart from each other than closer
Bronze Republic 2 years ago
Yeah its opposite. Maybe they meant 500 million years ago as Pangea?
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#13
Estimated Migration Of Early Homo Sapiens Out Of Africa To The Rest Of The World, In Thousands Of Years Ago (Kya)
Travis Fox 2 years ago
Except it's already been disproven. Mainstream scientists are now saying it happened in many small migrations, and that the Americas were populated much much earlier than the Clovis people depicted in the map.
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Frank Hassler 2 years ago
This is a bit out of date as research has show that people made it to central North America as early as 22,000 years ago, and perhaps earlier. https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/nature/fossilized-footprints.htm
Chrissie Anit 2 years ago
Yeah, I was thinking the same - wasn't the idea behind this map proven false just recently?
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Pyla 2 years ago
There is also more research that shows more ancient hominids migrated prior to homo sapiens. Hence Neantherthal and Denisoven admixture in our DNA
Altea 2 years ago
I believe neanderthals evolved in Europe about 400 K years ago
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sadmrguna 2 years ago
Whenever I wrap myself, shivering, in my wooly blanket while watching the sleet run down my windows, I wonder "why in the world did humans decide to leave Africa"??
Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
Well by the look of it, the first major migration route was to Australia ending in Tasmania. They must have had great tourist marketing in those days.
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k sand 2 years ago
Ik... such a roundabout migration between 2 relatively close landmasses
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LuLuBelle 2 years ago
Race is a cultural construct. Biologically we are all one species, just as chihuahuas and Great Danes are all the same species...the common domesticated dog.
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Just this past week, there have been several articles stating there were two starting points for humans in Africa, not the single area long believed.
"The digital generation has a heightened awareness of how maps can visualize data," Patrick pointed out.
"The tools to make maps have been democratized. This has increased interest in finding new and clever ways to see spatial data."
#14
Relief Map Of San Marino
#15
All Shootings vs. Shootings With Officer Involved In Chicago (2014-2022)
Fat Harry 2 years ago
Good luck getting the loonies on the right to agree to that one. Their mantra is "Guns don't kill people, people do", conveniently overlooking the fact that guns make that whole process much, much easier. No one ever indiscriminately stabbed 30 people to death from distance!
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Twizzle Sticks 2 years ago
I’d like to see a map like this of the whole USA versus the rest of the world.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
Clearly the answers to this are (1) more guns, and (2) thoughts and prayers. /s
Jacqueline Feulner 2 years ago
This is only one state - and many red states have passed laws that make it even easier to carry guns. Let's look at gun deaths in the past 5 years to see what's happening. Or better yet, year by year for the last 10 years.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I'm guessing this map is to try say why cops aren't violent... which is fair enough. BUT... yall still have a clear problem.
Thom Serveaux 2 years ago
The difference is that non-officer shootings are actually punished (although waaaay too many avoid justice)
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Jesus…as an American, I knew it was bad, but this is crazy! 😳 Wonder what Detroit would look like! I am a Michigander so I can say that!
#16
Turkey, Bordering 7 Different Countries With 7 Different Alphabets
Ur Bro Lexi 2 years ago
I can't READ all of the alphabets but I can tell you the ones shown are Latin in Turkey and Azerbaijan, Greek in Greece (shocker), Cyrillic in Bulgaria, Aramaic in Iran, Arabic in Iraq and Syria, Georgian in Georgia, and Armenian in Armenia
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Prince of Darkness 2 years ago
add an 8th for the turkish alphabet, and none of the 8 is the english alphabet
Corvus 2 years ago
Ummm, the ketter "A" exists in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets as well. It's not unique to the Latin script.
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
They weren’t disputing that, they’re just saying that it has 7 different alphabets in each of its neighbours.
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#17
The Largest Towns In 1050 In Europe, North Africa And West Asia (Population Over 40 Thousand)
Jrog 2 years ago
It's not much a "devastation after a fall", more like a slow and steady decline, punctuated by slightly faster decline from sackings from the 5th century onwards. People were not taken in slavery or killed: they mostly just... left. Rome was not self-sufficient for food and with the trade routes from the provinces compromised by loss of control it made more sense for the people to just move to the countryside and make a living in smaller communities. A few plagues (among them the very first appearance of smallpox and measles), killed off some of the population, but that was not specific to Rome and the impact was far smaller than the impact from physiologic depopulation.
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David Paterson 2 years ago
At the date 1040 it is extremely difficult to get reliable information about human populations. This was just about the lowest point of the dark ages. That said, this is a great map.
Travis Fox 2 years ago
And yet at the same time, south America had dozwns if not hundreds of cities with populations of 40 to 100 thousand people and some up to a million. Completely wiped out by European explorers.
In another Bored Panda interview, Patrick said that moderating the subreddit has always been about finding the right balance.
"It is impossible to please everybody. If you are too laissez-faire you get a lot of low-effort and ugly submissions and the users complain. If you are too strict, then you risk alienating those who supply the content for the sub. I try to find a balance between these two extremes. Overall, I'm satisfied with the moderating and I don't foresee any changes in the immediate future," he said.
#18
Public Transport Network Density
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
In case of Germany it's not a question of density but if there is any traffic on it... (hint: You need a car in this country to get around outside of cities)
Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago (edited)
I'm from the Black Forest, south west Germany. Public transport is miserable. Sure there are buses, but they may ride only once every 2 hours or so (and only during working hours), and take you only along a certain bus line. Good luck if you have to switch buses 2-3 times to get to a certain place. If you don't have a car, you are lost. (My grandmother once wanted to visit my grandfather in hospital. Stubborn as always, she insisted on taking the bus - on a Sunday - instead of letting us take her the distance of 35 km. It took her all day to get there and back.)
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
The USA would be almost completely blank. We don't have any intercity public transit to speak of.
Ravens Mom 2 years ago
Public transportation sucks so bad in the U.S (in most cities). Once I looked at the options for an appointment and it would have taken me 5 buses and almost 3 hours to get somewhere I was able to drive to in 15-20 mins. Plus add the time to walk to the bus stop because the closest one to me is about 1.5 miles away (2.4 km for everyone else)
Old Roadie 2 years ago
California once had a popular rail line that ran from Pacific Ocean to San Bernardino mountains. Car dealers decided the best way to improve their business was get rid of the trains. So, they approached (bribed, threatened) the city councils with their plan. That railway was dismantled... train cars thrown in Santa Ana river ...tracks paved over to make nice new roads for all the nice new cars. Dealers became wealthy beyond belief.
#19
The Best And The Worst For Lgbtq+ Travelers
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Go Canada! I hope that soon being LGBT+ becomes normalised everywhere
Shane G 2 years ago
Sadly it won't happen soon in a lot of places. Those places high on the negative side have a very long way to go, and they aren't really trying.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
This map is somewhat incorrect for south africa. If you are gay AND black AND you go into a low-income area you ARE in danger. If however you are white and gay and go anywhere, no one is bothered or interested in you. It's specifically black gay people who are expected to be heteronormative in Africa, and quite often punished for not being so. If you dobut this, note how the rest of the continent is more or less red. The reason SA is green is (a) our constitution prohibits gender discrimination of all forms and (b) we have a large expat and white population which follows western cultural norms. Assuming you are a TRAVELLER from a non-African state, you are quite safe travelling here while gay. You won't be targeted for that reason. HOWEVER if you are a traveller from Africa you must conceal your gender identity.
Old Roadie 2 years ago
Oh, this is heartbreaking and yet hopeful. No one should be persecuted over their wobbly bits. At least some countries understand this.
Tumbah Chamberlain 2 years ago
There is a Florida travel advisory for LGBTQ+. So not all of the US is safe.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
gooooo canada, our home and native laaaaand. true patriot love in all of us command.
David H 2 years ago
I find it interesting that Israel is a lighter shade than the US on this, when Israel decriminilzed Homosexuality in the 60s, allowed them in the military in 1982, and Tel-Aviv was ranked the best gay tourist city in the world 4 of the last 10 years and always in the top 5. Has one of the lowest anti-gay hate crime rates in the world, and one of the lowest violent anti-gay crimes rates in the world (only 3 anti-gay homocide hate crimes since 1990, the 2 of them were the same guy, he did the second a few weeks after being let out of prison for his previous one). Regardless of what you think of Israel's politics or policies, for gay tourists, it is one of the best places according to every Metric. Even Israel's secular right wing parties like Likud have openly gay members and are pro-gay rights
sylvantic 2 years ago
Israel’s so great that Static + Ben El made a pride song. I love Israel and someday soon I hope to visit (and one day make aliyah!)
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Miss Revelle 2 years ago
Once again, Canada just keeps on showing the world how much better they are at life!
#20
How Big Brazil Actually Is!
Stone.Man 2 years ago
Why does it look bigger than Canada? Isn't Canada the second largest country? And Brazil is the seventh largest
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
This pic leaves out at least dozens of Arctic Canadian islands, some of which are huge. When Joni Mitchell sang, "I drew a map of Canada," I said, "you WHAT?"
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Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
Wait what is it this big geographically or just for population?
[>.<]/ 2 years ago
It's because of the Mercatorprojection. lo8s9pt3fr...c8-png.jpg 
François Carré 2 years ago
I have another map in my collection that shows how all of Europe fits in Brazil, with room to spare.
#21
Places That "Don't Exist" According To Internet Memes (Many Based On The Original "Bielefeld Conspiracy")
Birgit M 2 years ago
Fun fact: A few years ago, the city of Bielefeld promised €1 000 000 to the person who could prove beyond doubt that Bielefeld does not exist.
Suby 2 years ago
Genius idea. By paying, it would then prove its existence, and the person would have to give the money back.
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I can assure you that Finland exists, otherwise my whole life is a lie 😂
Superb Owl 2 years ago
Finland is actually open sea, used for secret illegal whaling by the japanese. What Finns think is Finland, is actually in Sweden. Or so the c-theory goes :D
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
I like how the whole continent of Australia is held to be fictional, but New Zealand? oh, yeah, that's definitely a real place, no-one would kid about NZ.
Cara G 2 years ago
Nope, nobody would joke about a place where small coconut shaped birds with giant skinny beaks exist.
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Scp_049 2 years ago
According to the SCP wiki, Massachusetts isn't real, and is just an unpopulated wasteland that has been unpopulated since the beginning of time. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4006
Cara G 2 years ago (edited)
Yesterday at my sister's house, I spotted a shot glass in her kitchen that was twice the size of a standard shot glass and it immediately reminded me of being in Boston, the only place I've ever seen or consumed shots of that size. But now that I know the entire commonwealth of Massachusetts doesn't exist, I'm wondering what actually goes into those giant shots? Is this some kind of MK Ultra situation? Do I need a doctor?
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Dekker451 2 years ago
I love how all the place names are in quotes. It's like "So about this supposed "Australia", IF THAT IS IN FACT ITS REAL NAME..."
Cara G 2 years ago (edited)
I know! It reads like the written form of allegedly but it's really only there to throw suspicion on these places. Allegedly Australia, allegedly Wyoming, allegedly Massachusetts...
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The popularity of this subreddit and, in turn, alternative maps, illustrates the way Chris Heffernan, a teacher of 20 years, approaches geography. Heffernan, who is a seventh-grade social science and math teacher at Jefferson Junior High School in Naperville, Illinois, said he no longer thinks about map quizzes when he thinks about geography class, but rather “human geography,” the study of culture, economy, and politics, which ends up affecting all of us.
#22
The Size Of Australia vs. Other Countries
Junebugjump! 2 years ago
Roughly the same size as the US. The population difference between the two is staggering. Australia: 26M US: 350M (California 39M)
John Hodgkinson 2 years ago
It takes me 7.5 hours to fly to Singapore from Brisbane, and more than half of that is over Australia.
Hobby Hopper 2 years ago
All I want is a remote ranch the size of the UK. Is that so much to ask?
Alyssa 2 years ago
It actually amazes me that other countries can be so small! Do people just drive to other countries whenever they want? Spins me out.
Pandaroo 2 years ago
IKR, it took us ages to drive from melbourne to sydney
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Australia is bigger than you thought. Continental USA is about the size of Australia.
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The U.S. Map Redrawn As 50 States With Equal Population
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
I like how California has now become 5 separate “states” XD It took me a while to realize this map has chunked out “areas” that match each other area’s population, which is why Cali is 5 tiny “states”… LOTS of population packed into relatively small areas in the state.
Donny Cromwell 2 years ago
You can tell somebody from California did this map all of Oregon part of Washington and a some northern California is "Shasta". Shasta is a mountain and mountains range in California. Neither of which is anything special. Cascadia or Columbia would have been more accurate for the region.
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Sandy D 2 years ago
Yay, I'd love in Menomonie! And Chicago is now part of the state of Gary, it would seem. Kinda strange but funny af too
Fly_Agaric_Frog 🇺🇦 2 years ago
Oh nah. Columbia is a city. Not a country. Would Columbia be the capitol?
Analyn Lahr 2 years ago
Oh hell no! I don't want to live in the state of Salt Lake! Can't you just scoot Spokane back into Rainier?
#24
Russia’s New Border With Nato Now That Finland Is Finally In Nato!
DC 2 years ago
They had it coming. All the silly accusations of "NaTo Is ThReAtEnInG tHe PoOr DeAr VlAdi11" become more and more real, the more they react to them as if they already had been real. Well ... the three baltic states, former soviet republics, now see that their decision to join NATO was the rightest idea they ever could even have had - what else is it that makes Ukraine different to them?
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
Why hasn't someone [unalived] Vlad yet? Waiting.
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TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
If there is one thing history told us, it's to not mess with Finland... especially the "Winter War" is a very good example
Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
And they somehow managed to turn the whole debacle into a free trade agreement with the Soviet Union. A very profitable thing for a country that has good relations with the west.
Load More Replies... Rachel Ainsworth 2 years ago
The irony of using the possible expansion of NATO as an excuse to start a war.
Marcus Lynch 2 years ago
Ukraine needs international support. Ukraine's added border on the NATO "wall" would be huge for NATO as a whole. Russia just doesn't have the resources to pick fights along a fence that long.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Want to p**s putin off? Make this the new slogan: "Belorussia? All I see is North Ukraine."
Chris Sprucefield 2 years ago
The real and ultimate insult to Putin would be for Belarus to join =D
#25
Fecal Bacteria Contamination In New York Waters, 1985 vs. 2020
Mark Karol-Chik 2 years ago
I saw a customer wearing a T Shirt yesterday that read DEFUND THE EPA , and I was stunned .
RedPepper 2 years ago
Few wastewater treatment plants disinfect their discharges. New York is an exception.
Load More Replies... David H 2 years ago
well as you can see out water got better. It is now safe to swim or eat fish from NYC waters now. And even whales have returned after over 100 years
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I think eating the fish is discouraged, but people fish off of Roosevelt Island and lots of the smaller bridges and I doubt they throw everything back
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Why that color ? Are Staten Island, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, etc are somewhere in the 100-2000 ppm range?
"Geography matters more now than ever because students need to know human geography," Heffernan wrote. "They need to understand the relationships that exist between cultures. They need to see not just the differences in cultures, but the similarities."
"Students need to know that the kid sitting in a school in Afghanistan today probably doesn’t speak the same language, practice the same religion or live in a home that looks anything like a student in the United States, but they have a lot of things in common [too]."
"Geography matters now more than ever because of global crises that range from migration to climate change to pandemics," Heffernan continued. "Geography matters because we are all connected. Geography matters because this is our world."
#26
Most Common Country Of Birth For Residents Of Foreign Origin, Excluding Mexico
Awesome At Being Autistic 2 years ago
Nope, sorry. There's a reason why they're excluding Mexico. And that's because the entire map would be Mexican.
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Larry XK 2 years ago (edited)
They enjoy the dry heat. Also this map is a fragment of imagination
Load More Replies... Fly_Agaric_Frog 🇺🇦 2 years ago
It feels like india wouldn't be the most common but I never really thought about it.
Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago
Huge amount of Indians have left since independence...
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
New Mexico: the Germans kept getting homesick, so Gus Fring had to constantly resupply.
Basil (they/them) 2 years ago
So uh I didnt read the key and i thought the India flag was the Ireland flag cause I'm dumb and I was really confused-
#27
Status Of Gay Marriage In Europe
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
IKR especially with el vaticano right there. Although I see it is grey. Heaven forbid a city composed of only men who wear skirts should consider getting married.
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Loki Mota Morgado 2 years ago
Nope. Aproved last year, started working in february of this year :DDDD. Took them long enough.
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The First World Map By Anaximander Of Miletus (610bc-546bc), Greece Mathematician And Geographist. Original Map Was Not Saved!
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
I can see real scientific method, like actually measuring and noting coordinates was used here.
#29
Number Of Prisoners Per 100,000 People Across The World
CP 2 years ago
We should be ashamed in the US! Yet people in my country seemingly want to lock more people up. It is a sickness.
Scp_049 2 years ago
I got to agree with you. They need to stop arresting so many people, and maybe just add some more gun laws.
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Tee Rat 2 years ago
My state is trying to get funding for a new prison due to overcrowding. House arrest with ankle monitoring is common depending on the crime. It allows the person to still work and be home by a certain time. They auto-dial the home and your monitor needs to be read by the device they leave behind. No set times and they will call late at night just to check. Work release centers keep you locked up unless you are working or given a couple of hours to take care of personal matters. That time is earned with good behavior.
Miss Revelle 2 years ago
Prisons are profitable in the USA. If there was no money in it, America would be one of the lowest.
Cuppa tea? 2 years ago
I don't quite understand how it works. If state is paying private company for prisoners, how private company makes profit? Reducing costs? Surely authorities can look into books and figure out where savings are made, turn prisons back to state owned and save profit for tax payers.
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
Yes. I worked at one briefly. They feed them absolute c**p- wonder bread with American cheese, a slice of bologna, and an apple. They skimp on medical care- not taking people to the hospital until the last minute, having horrible drug formularies where you can't get people the meds they need. Cramming as many people in as possible. Our primary care doc prescribed "drink more water" for everything- headaches, body aches, nausea, anxiety, etc. etc. It was awful.
Load More Replies... Junebugjump! 2 years ago
We should not be proud of this social injustice. Poverty, racism, law enforcement, state and federal governments and b******t stances like 'tough on crime,' are responsible.
#30
The 2022 Edition Of The Global Peace Index
#31
The Euler Diagram-Map Of The British Isles./-
LK 2 years ago
The only quibble I have with this is 'British Isles'. Eire/the Republic of Ireland most definitely does not agree to this term being used of their country. Eire is not part of the British Isles as Eire is not part of Britain. formally disavowed in September 2005 by the Irish Government when Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern stated: "The British Isles is not an officially recognised term in any legal or inter-governmental sense. It is without any official status.
PandaGoPanda 2 years ago
On the other hand, when you take politics out of it, it's an accurate geographical description.
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Stephanie Gidcumb 2 years ago
Even if some disagree with this, this is still useful to the US! It wasn't until the past few years (I'm 31), that I confused the UK, Great Britain, and England. I cant remember now how I thought of them, but I sure didn't know Scotland was anywhere close to any of them lol. Goes to show they sure didn't teach me/us well.
Iridian 2 years ago
Being an Anglophile and coming from a country not listed, I've done my best in the past to understand and internalize the above. But I've seen that people also differentiate "Great Britain" from "Britain," and I don't see "Britain" listed. Can someone in the know please explain? Thanks.
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Part of England, also England’s only Island County. Used to be part of Hampshire.
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Percentage Of Children Born Out Of A Registered Marriage
Twizzle Sticks 2 years ago
Ironically, if they made this map of the US, the high numbers would all be in the “virtuous, bible loving “ south.
Shannon Whitmer 2 years ago
Highest in the US are in LA, MS, NV, and NM https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/unmarried/unmarried.htm
Load More Replies... Kelly Jones 2 years ago
This is enlightened. Marriage is a binding contract & you will be SOL divorcing an abuser in the US, who will take your kids if they have the $ & sue you forever to destroy your life.
Aboredpanda 2 years ago
Whelp in the nordics it's not really concidered necessary to be married in order to plan having a child together. If people are in a committed relationship, that's enough. 😺
Ivy Ruonakoski 2 years ago
My parents were never married and had me (by active choice) in the late 70s. No one batted an eye.
Load More Replies... Shane G 2 years ago (edited)
Because of the laws and culture, unwed mothers and their children are essentially treated as non-people. Because of this, the numbers in Turkey are almost certainly underreported.
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Rodney McKay 2 years ago
Iceland at 69.4% because its so hard to locate someone again on that large, wild, sparsely-populated island--your first date may unintentionally be your last. There's an Icelandic TV series, "Katla", about people who disappear there.
Zwiebel Suppe 2 years ago
Because it's a lot easier to get child support and other benefits if the couple is married. I know some people here who had their first child unmarried and had a lot of difficulties with the legal recognition of the father's fatherhood, paternity leave etc., so they decided to marry before having another child. If the social system made it easier to get the same support for all kinds of families, less people would marry - but then again, that's exactly not what conservative governments and administration want.
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England, Right To Roam Map
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
There’s been an ongoing fight between people who want to explore the countryside, people who hike, ramblers etc but the majority of the land is shut off because it’s deemed as private land, either farms, country estates etc. The stand off has been going on for decades and has been at a stalemate for as long as I can remember.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
This is because of the aristocracy and landed twats called lords and viscounts and so on. If you remove the aristocracy or reduce it to just buckingham palace, this will be solved. I was at a village in the UK once. Totally riduclous story: the entire village and surrounds belonged to a so-called lord. He was not there. The castle was disintegrating because he didnt want to pay roof tax, really. Really. But he was still extracting rent from his land users. The landless peasants didn't actually own their own houses. In the 21st century. Sounds like the medieval era. It's gross. And the british exported this system to Africa. We have the same problem here. About 32000 people in SA own almost 70% of the land here. "Farmers". How did they get it? Their ancestors massacred our people with firearms, that's how.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 2 years ago
Scotland has quite broad right to roam with the expectation that you behave responsibly. Few exceptions are being adjacent to someone's home, school grounds, farm buildings and things like construction sites - I can happily walk along someone's land as long as I'm not going near their house or leaving mess/making unreasonable amount of noise. It's rather odd to me when folk get all arsey about people harmlessly walking around
Sonia Bailey 2 years ago
Exactly - you hae the right to roam in Scotland but the expectation is that you 'leave no trace'.
Load More Replies... Julie Snelling 2 years ago (edited)
The thing is it's not the ramblers that are the problem they respect the land. It is idiots that go onto other people's land and leave their s**t behind they seem to think they are at a festival and leave their tents and all their rubbish they start fires and it's the land owners that have to clean it up. So they stop everyone using their land because a minority ruin it for others.
2x4b523p 2 years ago
Exactly, I did not mind respectful dog walkers and families roaming through our land. I was still ok with it when people camped on our land as long as they collected their rubbish. But local builders decided a bit of woodland behind our house is excellent spot to dump building waste including asbestos. Council had no desire to try catch them and fine them, we had to pay for removal. Now everything is fenced off.
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Ericthedead 2 years ago (edited)
I have land and don’t want random people to just have access to it. Be a nightmare. I have a pond and river access if someone asks to fish or hunt 90 percent of the time I say go ahead. I have had to pick up beer bottles and ask they don’t keep fish from the pond. But usually it’s a couple teens or a dad and child that barely leave footprints. Had problems with people poaching and destructive partying on my grandparents place which is no where near me and 5 times larger and harder to watch.
Synsepalum 2 years ago
Montana, a US state, has a certain level of right to roam. It's not perfect, but it exists.
#34
Robbery Rates In European Countries
Fat Harry 2 years ago
I'd be willing to bet that the England rate is skewed massively by London.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
the highest crime rate in the country is actually in North Yorkshire, 140 crimes per 1,000 in Stockton/Middlesborough/Teesside, to be exact. And if anyone's ever been there, it will surprise no one.
Load More Replies... Libstak 2 years ago
The police do most of the robbing too, so low crime statistics provided.
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verus2 2 years ago
I am from Hungary, and robberies are indeed very rare. I am, however, a bit surprised by the high numbers in Western Europe and Sweden.
Na Schi 2 years ago
Even if counting in touristy areas (where probably pickpocketing scores higher) I would be really intrested to see a map pre 2015!
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Johnnee 2 years ago
I'll get downvoted for this but it is because of very high number of MENA migrants.
Load More Replies... Rory Sheridan 2 years ago
Lots of tourists and big crowds make easy targets
Load More Replies... Michelle C 2 years ago
The rate in France is probably skewed largely by Paris. I’ve heard Parisians can be nasty to outsiders, even other French people!
Rory Sheridan 2 years ago
I know Parisians won't like this but my París visits were all like this. I have been spat on and had smoke blown in my face. Only place in the world I've met people so rude. The rest of France is just better.
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Eledore Massis 2 years ago
I know right, but I wonder if they got the right number, as 3x to our northern idiots, I find odd. We have statistics for robbery with and without party involvement (we have robbery at threath And stolen/pickpocketed without you noticing, that is also a robbery statistic here).
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
The US rate for 2020 is 73.9...ranging from a high of 332.9 in Washington DC to a low of 9.5 in Idaho. The rate for my state (Massachusetts) is 43.7.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 2 years ago
Not surprised Scotland has lower rates in the uk, we're a decent bunch
Andreas H 2 years ago (edited)
Chart is right. We hear so many bad news from Sweden everyday in german news. Don't think in 50yo clichés, Rodney.
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How Much Territory Russia And Ukraine Hold At One Year Of War
WindySwede 2 years ago
https://i.redd.it/how-much-territory-russia-and-ukraine-hold-at-one-year-of-v0-2gi3bxaamyja1.png?s=7b4cb713ac7a684b514441c28c081177071fa51a
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Kelli Goldstone 2 years ago
Ok. I'm totally against this war and it's an awful loss of life on both sides due to a d**k dictator. He is an a*s. But does this map also look like a goat yelling at a man. Like that's Ukraine yelling back and eff you.
#36
Percentage Of Europeans Whose Wealth Is Under $10,000
Maro G 2 years ago
What? I live in Poland and I can assure you there is big gap between Poland and Germany, lol.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
I am sure your anecdotal evidence is more precise and reliable than Credit Suisse's yearly Databook. https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2022.pdf
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Donkeywheel 2 years ago
I’m afraid a lot of people didn’t get the meaning of this map. It’s not that intuitive, don’t forget to factor debt in (net wealth). You may have a good income of 100k euros/dollars and a negative wealth at this point in your life (student debt, initial investment in your own company, etc.) Some countries like indebtedness more than others. That’s how you get Italy in dark green and Germany in yellow.
Bart 2 years ago
Please BP, check before you post... According to your map Italy has more people with 10k to their name than Switzerland 🤣
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
The Mafia there is bigger than you think?
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ScrapieChick 2 years ago
This map is rather misleading, implying that Europe is inherently wealthy, in my country almost almost half of the countries wealth belongs to the to 22%, and around 23% do not own property of have any savings.
Superb Owl 2 years ago
Apparently, this is the source: https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2019.pdf Page 117 ->
Marcos Valencia 2 years ago (edited)
A culture of savings and being homeowners is probably the key of this map. For my father: at least one year of incomes saved and being owner of your house was the basis of feeling economically stable.
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
The map suggests that Italians are wealthier than Swiss people, that Germans and Bulgarians have a similar amount of savings as your average Saudi or Cypriote (all of them a LOT less than the Italians), and that the Greek have more than any nordic/Scandinavian citizen except for the Icelanders. I'm not sure how that data was acquired (apparently by Crédit Suisse, so maybe it reflects their pool of clients?), but I highly doubt the validity/general applicability.
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Christof Irran 2 years ago
Don't let the numbers for Germany and Poland fool you. They are the ones who took in the most refugees (1,055,323 and 1,563,386 respectively), and it is those refugee who skew the numbers. (see map #9 above [it was #9 when I last looked at it]) (Compare 1M and 1,6M to UK's 161K - 10% of Poland's numbers)
hobbitly 2 years ago
Where does it say its a yearly income? I thought it was your savings + what your stuff is worth.
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The Swedish Empire At It’s Height
cogadh 2 years ago
To be fair, I'm pretty sure autocorrect frequently incorrectly changes "its" to "it's", confusing everyone as to what is actually right. I know I often find myself having to double check that and change it. In fact, it happened while I was typing this.
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Throw in the overseas possessions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies#/media/File%3ASwedishColonialEmpire(FIX).png
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Thank you Sabaton for this lesson in Swedish history: https://www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/charles-xii-of-sweden-is-crowned/
#38
Legality Of Prostitution
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Violet is the only humane option. Illegal for the buyers. Sex work is almost always a form of abuse, not of empowerment and since it's near impossible to find out which sex worker is coerced and which one does it on their own free will (for the authorities AND the buyers in equal measure!) punishing the buyers is the only way. Also when someone is paying for sex they can't tell if the prostitute is being forced and thus they're ok with possibly committing rape.
CP 2 years ago
Green is the only humane option. There isn't a logical reason why two consenting adults shouldn't be allowed to exchange money for sex.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
South Africa is currently red, but will go green soon. In the comment that follows, "she" is used to designate female-presenting persons, however male-presenting and intersex persons also sell sex here. The rationale for us moving to legalisation is that if you legalise it then people who are trafficked can get law enforcement support, and report trafficking and or customers who do not stop when told to stop. If selling is legal and buying is not, you simply enable pimps to continue and make buyers conceal their activities, which still keeps it underground and encourages cash transactions which are not traceable or taxable. If the transactions can be done in the clear with digital payments, you can then track sellers and buyers and do health interventions for both. We also have the world's highest HIV stats so this is important. In SA we now mostly sell sex on websites and women sign up individually. You can tell she's being pimped if she doesn't answer her own phone and/or engage individually, or if there is a common phone number for more than one seller. Obviously in those cases one should avoid since usually it is a pimp (male) behind it, who is trafficking the worker.
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
There is almost always a pimp behind a prostitute. Women who sell their bodies are extremely prone to violence from their 'customers', even the ones with pimps. A woman on her own would be at an incredible risk of getting a used and murdered- it happens A LOT to sex workers.
Load More Replies... Rory Sheridan 2 years ago
This isn't accurate. In Italy it is legal and regulated but you can't have brothels and you must be self-employed. You can't register as a business.
Marika Pallavicini (Hikari) 2 years ago
Yeah that's right. In italy you can be a 'self employed' prostitute, you can't register as a business BUT you need to pay taxes or you can be fined. How the law regulates this is a complete mess.
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 2 years ago
I always liked the Companion way of things in Firefly. The sex worker has all the control and can blackball (hehe) anyone who is abusive or violent.
Junebugjump! 2 years ago
Red countries are bastards. A person sells sex if they have nothing else or are forced into trafficking. Disgusting.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Red just looks like another way of taxing prostitution while the government maintains the appearance of being "moral". Assuming the punishment is *just* fines of course. I mean if you look at at 8 euro fine as the max punishment (in Ukraine) then just charge 8 euro more and you're set.
Jason Boyd 2 years ago
There are many different ways of managing prostitution shown here. We should review these systems and find out which ones cause the least harm to people and the most benefit to society. Then, using evidence, we select the right ones. Layers of society and religious evolution make this a very messy area to regulate and we need to put that aside and make a decision based on evidence, not beliefs. There are a lot of opinions here being presented as absolutes.
#39
Europeans Who Would Fight For Their Own Country
DC 2 years ago
I see this a tad ... different. I'd not hesitate defend every european border that surrounds an area of humanism against any attack of less humanist invaders. I'd link it to ideas and values more than to country, because that's what really counts. But, if I'd be able to supply a service that's of value there, why not? If I were a Russian, given that I know and feel what I do now as a german, I would certainly NOT fight "for my country", but either get my a*s into safety, or get my a*s into Ukraine's service.
Na Schi 2 years ago
Considering that (Western) Germany felt a lot of remorse for its unforgivable deeds in WWII and the main narrative to never ever engage into a war (right up into the 2000s) I'm not surprised that Germany seems reluctant to engage into a battle. Considering that until today appreciating their own army (speaking of former W.GER) is low in the public and soldiers immediately being prosecuted when expressing to much love for 'their motherland' and former military leaders (not Hitler or his leading bunch, mind you!) I'm not surprised that the will to fight for this land us so low.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I suspect Finland might be saying that because they sit on Russia's border. And Russia is known to be grumpy.
PandaGoPanda 2 years ago
I reckon those saying no might change their minds if someone actually attacked their country.
333 2 years ago
It's all nice and idealistic until someone is kicking in your door, shooting your family, and råping your livestock. Plenty of resistance fighters in the 40s suggest that Europe has a much higher stomach for defending their homes than this map suggests
Terran 2 years ago
The question is if you are willing to fight for your country. I would answer not to that question. I will not fight for my country. I am however willing to defend it against an invasion and fight for our democracy. Quite different things really.
Load More Replies... Christof Irran 2 years ago
LOL! Back in 1982, when I had to do my mandatory military service, Austrian high command knew that they would lose more than 80% of their officer corps during the first day of an armed conflict to gunfire from involuntary recruits like me.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
It's blue because people in those countries don't see them as being at risk. If Putin tried to invade I'm sure the numbers would climb.
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I wonder how the question was framed? It's different being asked "would you fight for your country if we went to war with X" compared to "would you fight for your country if it was invaded by X". And they're both different to the very general "would you fight for your country".
Eledore Massis 2 years ago
The question should be, are you willing to fight for the organization that guarantees your ownershil of your assets. If you don't fight you lose access to your bank, land and anyone could steal your possessions or take your home without legal ramifications..
#40
When Were Southamerica's Capitals Founded?
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Jeopardy! Masters Tournament the other night had Caracas founded in 1567. A better question: what does Caracas have on common with the death of Adonis? Venus wailin’
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
amazing. So this suggests to me that most of the pacific-facing countries were colonised around the same time: I imagine this was the pursuit of the legendary el dorado?
Raabh Aquino 2 years ago
Brazil was too, in fact, the Portuguese started exploring Brazil in 1500. The difference is that our capital was Rio de Janeiro until 1960, when Brasilia was founded. It was designed as our capital by famous architecht Oscar Niemeyer.
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#41
Percentage Of Vegetarians In Every State Of India
Sapna Sarfare 2 years ago
Considering we have some of the best non-veg dishes, it is quite amusing to think that outsiders consider us just vegetarians.
Got hacked lol 2 years ago (edited)
Most probably the non-veg dishes came from the Mughal Empire, which was a Muslim state. they also created the world-famous biryani.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Really interesting that The side closer to Pakistan is more veggie - I thought vegetarianism was a Hindu thing
#42
Cultural Regions Map Of The Contiguous 48 American States. V.5 ( Opinionated, Not Factual, Made With Communal Input)
Majungasaurus 2 years ago
Cascadia is a huge bioregion in that area :) give it a Google, it does make sense!
Load More Replies... Christof Irran 2 years ago
That's a heap of oxen shyte. In Washington state the Cascade mountains are not only a divider between the liberals in the west and the fascists in the east, it also divides 2023 (west) from the Middle Ages (east). Eastern Washington might as well be in the South.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
New England is factual, TYVM. We have had regional cooperatives for centuries now. They still function to maintain economic, infrastructural, cultural, and so on integrity. I can't speak to any of the other regions delineated on this map, but New England is not a matter of opinion.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
Isn't "Gulf" supposed to read "Darwin awards" or "Here be Florida Man", or "Desantisville" or something like that?
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Excepting Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, downtown LA, the Twin Cities, Chicago and the WA DC-Boston corridor: everything else can be labeled “The South.”
#43
Distribution Of The Roman Legions In Second Century Ce
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Wow, amazing how small the world was, and that you could control it with so few men.
Vladimir I 2 years ago
Romans used their allied forces for that, too. I wonder if this number includes only roman (italian) soldiers or also others.
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Mimi La Souris 2 years ago
All Europe is occupied by the Romans... All ? No! a village populated by indomitable Gauls still resists the invader. :D
#44
Countries By Self-Perceived Democracy
François Carré 2 years ago
The French practicing Cartesian doubt about how democratic our country actually is (which makes sense).
#45
Linguistic Map Of Spain
censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
it's ok the british are pissed off with spain over gibraltar still, and there's this: which is still in force!! https://history.blog.gov.uk/2016/05/09/historys-unparalleled-alliance-the-anglo-portuguese-treaty-of-windsor-9th-may-1386/ ...yes, you read that right. Britain and Portugal have been allies continuously since 1386.
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Robert Trebor 2 years ago
Llanito, in Gibraltar. The Spanish are such hypocrites about the place, given their own presence in Morocco.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Yep. Spanish North Africa, five small areas, in special relationship with the Spanish government, on and off the Mediterranean coast of Morocco. They are Alhucemas, Ceuta, the Chafarinas Islands, Melilla (qq.v.), and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, with a combined area of about 12 square miles (31 square km). Ceuta is administered as part of Cádiz province, the rest as part of Málaga province.
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Ghana vs. The Ghana Empire
#47
How Many Times More Likely Are Black Individuals To Be Imprisoned Compared To White Individuals In The Us?
Red PANda (she/they) 2 years ago
I am both shocked and disappointed to see that my state is one of the darkest blues 😔. I thought we were better than that :( on behalf of all the people in my state, I apologize.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
What the Hello Kitty is wrong with New Jersey and Wisconsin? And why is California so dark blue?
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
Let's remember that you can't be imprisoned if the police kill you while arresting you.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
Very interesting. Just goes to show that being left-leaning (if you really want to call the Democrats "left" compared to say, Europe)... doesn't mean you aren't propping up some kind of dodgy system built on oppression. Unless I'm reading it wrong? Darker blue means more african-americans imprisoned, right?
K W 2 years ago
Until somewhat recently most white democrats were pro police. Being "tough on crime" is something that a lot of democrat politicians had as part of their political platform. Smart phones and social media showing videos of brutality is part of why that has shifted. It's still very baked into our system and culture to be pro punishment. And the system itself was founded on racist principles carried over from slavery. It's good to see the cultural shift starting but systemic shifts are a lot harder and slower.
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Foxes forever! 2 years ago
I would remember this is just solely racism, say more gangs in black neighborhoods, or other things that could be different. Don’t get me wrong though, racism has a huge part in this.
K W 2 years ago (edited)
Montana has one of the lowest population percentages of Black people in the US and most of that limited diversity (just .5%) is located around an airforce base. So we''re at the lower end 2nd tier (still bad) likely because there just isnt a lot of people in the demographic to incarcerate, not because our justice system is better or worse than other states. I'm not sure what accurate conclusions regarding racism in incarnation by location are supposed to drawn by this map since there are other factors to consider like at minimum population percentages.
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
Wow I genuinely thought washington was better than that. I assume its eastern washington, not actual washington
Majungasaurus 2 years ago
Is eastern Washington not the same as regular Washington? (Genuine question, I’m not American!)
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The Atlantic Wall
Rob Chapman 2 years ago (edited)
These comments make me sad. People actually don't know what D-Day or Operation Overlord are. THE most important battle in WWII. It was the beginning of Nazi Germany's downfall.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Sorry I don't get it? was this a literal fortification? how do you land at Dunkirk if there's a big wall?
dave prior 2 years ago
Fred is correct, but also, no-one *landed* at Dunkirk. That was the port from which the BEF and some allied forces escaped from in 1940. The D-Day invasion was focused on Normandy, around the coast roughly from Cherbourg to Le Havre.
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#49
Eu Countries Pushing To Label Nuclear Power As Green Energy
censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
Germany just bet hard on solar and shut down their nukes so.. not surprising they won't sign it.
#50
Kingdom Of Prussia In 1800 And Today's Germany Borders
Marcos Valencia 2 years ago
Well, Prussia, Germany and the Holy Roman Empire are different institutions.
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
The HRE initially started in what is today France. Then slowly moved East over time.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
Funny thing, Germany as nation is nearly a hundred years younger than the USA
Marcos Valencia 2 years ago
And the older restaurant in Spain (Casa Botín) is 50 years older than the USA. Timelines can be surprising.
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Africa's Population Density
Delta Dawn 2 years ago
I love that our species’ continent of origin looks like a profile of a skull of a hominid ancestor
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Egypt's mostly desert so yes, the people will live along the riverbank.
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summary: people do not like living in deserts. So for our friend pandas here: bottom of the continent is south africa. Tiny spark on the bottom left corner is cape town, about 3m people. Next large-ish spark to the upper-right of that is Gauteng, about 14m people. Red patch to the righthand side, with the yellow dot (Durban/Ethekwini), 22m people - mostly the Zulu nation.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I love maps like this. Super cool. Would love to do a sporcle-type quiz where you have to select the countries with no outlines but you do get this map instead.
#52
Biggest Source Of Electricity In The States And Provinces
crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
Unfortunately, the ethics of Washington's hydro energy are sort of questionable. We're f*****g up a lot of native-owned rivers and natural ecosystems and trying to fix it. Salmon not going extinct is a bit more important than being the leading hydroelectric state
Raccoon 2 years ago
Yea.. and we make way more electricity than we need. We even sell it to other states.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Um...my city in Massachusetts has its own municipal electric company. Only 26% of our electricity comes from fossil fuels, and the majority from nuclear, solar, wind, and hydro. We even have our own solar farms.
#53
Countries In Europe Where Escaping From Prison Isn’t A Crime
Susie Elle 2 years ago
This is because the human need for freedom is too big to make it punishable by law. This does not mean that you won't be searched for and reincarcerated when found, though. It just means that you won't be also prosecuted for escaping from jail.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
They will still catch the person and crimes done after escaping will be punished
Michael Largey 2 years ago
"We designed prisons specifically to be a place you don't want to be. How dare you not want to be there?"
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
Not a crime because "This is because we believe that the natural urge of a person to be free is too great to link it to a criminal offense" (Google translate). I wonder, by that metric, how anything can be deemed a crime, if my defense is, "I couldn't help myself, the natural urge was too strong" .
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
Technically speaking the government deprives people of their freedom when they imprison them, and freedom is a fundamental right. The compromise to the conundrum is to not prosecute the escapee for fleeing. They still get put back to prison (if caught, obviously) for their original crime, and their options to an earlier release for good conduct are cancelled/more restricted
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Map Of The Percentage Of Population Able To Speak French In The Eu By Country
Fat Harry 2 years ago (edited)
Interestingly, that 19% for the UK is the same as the percentage of Welsh people listed as being able to speak Welsh. Also, 1 in 5 brits recon they could maintain a conversation in French? That seems way too high.
SarahJane Riordan 2 years ago
Agree, 1 in 5 does seem high. But a decent proportion of the older population will have a working knowledge of French, because it was a compulsory subject at high school level. My father, who completed high school (and would be in his eighties if he was alive), could carry out a conversation in French. My mother, who didn't, cannot.
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Na Schi 2 years ago
Agree. I guess because Romanians also speak a language with Latin roots and thus it's much easier to learn. But this is just an educated guess - personally I only know of Romanians who are quite fluent in Italian.
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#55
Foreign Military Bases In Africa
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago (edited)
I want to point out that the german forces are there on request of the governments, with Mali being abandoned due to the decision that we won't train soldiers for a military coup
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Havent' the french just been kicked out burkina faso? Pretty sure it's a russian base now.
HAL9000 2 years ago
Maybe part of the reason Americans can't afford free health care, post secondary education, adequate infrastructure etc..
Jrog 2 years ago
Maybe not. The american industrial-military complex is mostly confined to american suppliers. Military funding ends up in large part to american companies and american jobs. Not saying Americans shouldn't tone it down a bit, but the military in the USA is a huge internal money mover, so it should theoretically improve economy and private wealth, plus it is a net exporter so it should bring in large revenues from third party countries. Unfortunately, the wealth stops at the higher echelons of the pyramids.
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Us States That Enforce Seatbelts
Pandemonium 2 years ago
Does the New Hampshire license plate still include the motto "Live Free or Die"
Old Roadie 2 years ago
Navy had a safety film called 'Room to Live' which was narrated by a state trooper with 30 years of horror stories about vehicle accidents. Many rescues. Many tragedies. Most memorable line: "I never had to unbuckle a dead person's seatbelt.' There's room to live when you're held inside the vehicle, not so much when you're ejected.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
We watched something similar in high school driver's ed. Complete with graphic photos from traffic accidents. Not sure they made a difference to the still-developing 15-16yo brains though.
Load More Replies... Darth_Borah 2 years ago
I say this when I have to put a sign on a piece of machinery that says "do not place hands in moving equipment". I say, we remove the signs and enforcement and allow evolution to take its place.
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memyselfandI 2 years ago
What does primary and secondary mean in this case? I’m in California and you can get ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt, is that primary given the map?
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
it looks like the red here correlates with denser-populated states..
#57
Languages Spoken By European/North American Leaders
Donkeywheel 2 years ago
There’s a huge difference between speaking a language (perfectly or not) and having to use it sometimes because of your job. I heard him talking in German or French (that I speak fluently) : he doesn’t speak these languages, that’s obvious. He is able to say a few words, or more if it’s prepared but that’s it. He speaks perfect Italian though (and Spanish obviously).
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Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Yes, that's the third flag, the yellow one. Vatican is the only country with Latin as a national language
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MisterE 2 years ago
Biden is not able to speak one whole complete sentence in English.
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Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago
Wow! No one speaks American, even Biden!!! What’s going on? (Sarcasm. Seriously! But I think some people might agree, which is very scary!!!)
#58
Places Of Worship, North America
howdylee 2 years ago
Nope, because even small towns can have several churches.
Load More Replies... crowspectre (he/they) 2 years ago
There's so many churches near me and they're mostly super progressive and great, there's one that has a pride flag up all year 24/7 and multiple have pride stickers and say stuff about accepting everyone. Seattle is too gay for it to be a good decision for a church to not actively support queer people
#59
Switching Europe Around: The Population Of The Most Populous Country Goes To The Country With The Biggest Area, The Population Of The 2nd Most Populous Country Goes To The One With The 2nd Biggest Area, And So On
Alexandru Bucur 2 years ago
Well, that explains why a lot of old English people keep moving to Spain... /s
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
Hits two vulnerable spots at once: I don't want to swap with Ukraine (sorry), and the last time Germany tried to "take what it was due" we got what we deserved.
#60
Status Of Democracy In Europe According To The Eiu Democracy Index 2022
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Everyone living in Germany knows how flawed our democracy is by corruption and nepotism
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Ok downvoters, prove me wrong if you disagree
Load More Replies... Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
not so sure on the UK anymore... its definitely flawed at best.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
"Low levels of political participation have resulted in Belgium’s lower ranking in the EIU Democracy Index compared to other Western European countries. This is despite high levels of turnout in the constituencies due to its compulsory voting system." https://www.expatica.com/be/living/gov-law-admin/belgium-government-106909/#voting
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
I find these maps to be propaganda. The people making them and gathering the stats tend to use anglophone political ideas which lean towards neoliberalism, or libertarianism, none of which actually cater for upliftment of the poor but rather focus on individualism and liberty to pursue profit. So I always cast a skeptical eye at them and say well OBVIOUSLY britain and its allies are the most democratic (meantime they are literally monarchies!!)... so ya, I call b******t on this. Turkey sure, we know it's a dictatorship. Same for Russia and Belarus. But Italy? Portugal? Greece?. They are democracies. Democracies are NOT defined by things like quality of public service or corruption. They are defined by 2 criteria: DO the people vote for their govts and IF the govt is voted out, DOES it leave willingly? IF you use MY definition of democracy, we can see USA is NOT a democracy because the Electoral College & crying "rigged election" ala Trump. So naaaah.
Aboredpanda 2 years ago
I think your geography schooling has been lacking.
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Israel's Segregated Road System
Tiramisu 🇵🇸 2 years ago
Israel wants to control Palestinians but not give them the same rights as citizens... hmmmm.....
David H 2 years ago
All Israeli-Arab citizens have the full and same equal rights as all other Israeli's. I would be illegal under international law for Israel to give citizen rights to Palestinians without annexing the weat bank
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Percentage Of Population Able To Hold A Conservation In German [607x650]
![Percentage Of Population Able To Hold A Conservation In German [607x650]](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/6464b57e2c2ac_1d9qvmqsarca1__700.jpg "Percentage Of Population Able To Hold A Conservation In German [607x650]")
Inga Paškevičiūtė 2 years ago
Holy S**t! So much Germans able to converse in German in Germany?!
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
No, no, take a look at the title, they’re only able to “conserve” in German, not “converse” XD
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Schweizdeutsch? it is a bit funny though, I do not think that many North Germans can follow it
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Hutt'nKloas 2 years ago (edited)
LOL @ Germany. The 71% for the Dutch seems a bit high to me. About 30% or less may have chosen the German language during their education. According the latest research, many of those can't hold a conversation [just a few simple sentences/words]. However many can understand it up to a decent level.
Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago
Hey! Germans have a higher percentage than France did in another post here!
#63
Map Of Uncontacted Peoples Of The World
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Not exactly uncontacted, they just sometimes kill you if you come mess with them. Sensible really.
Hobby Hopper 2 years ago
I wonder how many of those groups know about the rest of us and just want nothing to do with us?
#64
With Just Two 300 M Tracks, Vatican City Has The World's Shortest Railway Network
Michael Largey 2 years ago
On the other hand, its number of railroad tracks per square mile is quite high.
#65
Can One Of You Euros Explain To Me What An Autonomous Region Is? Is It Like States And Provinces? Does It Make A Difference Between Federated And Unitary States? Why Is Spain So F'd Up?
Marcos Valencia 2 years ago
It will be a pleasure to give you an explanation once you change the style of your question.
Lauren S 2 years ago
Hello, European pandas. I am not familiar with the term autonomous areas. Can you please explain what that means? -signed a US educated individual (I see the answers below I just wanted to ask).
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
Regions with an own governmental system but still part of the nation - or a federal state+ to say so
UpupaEpops 2 years ago
Autonomous regions almost always have some legislative rights. So for example, an autonomous region can decide that in that specific region, there will be an extra official language that everyone in the region has to know. (so for example in the so-called Basque Country both Spanish and Basque would be mandatory. -I don't know if that's the case, just used Spain as an example) They can also decide how to spend the money allocated to them without having to defer to the capital of the country. They would not have a right to make decisions on foreign policy, military, police, etc.
UpupaEpops 2 years ago
To add to my previous comment, the reason "Spain is so f****d up" is that while most European countries are named after the ethnic majority of a country, the reality is that most, if not all countries have many historic ethnic groups that struggle greatly to be accepted and treated as equal. Check out the history of the Saami for example. Regional autonomy should (in theory) give some protections to these ethnic groups so they do not disappear off the face of the earth.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
An autonomous region is a region which lies within the borders of a country but does not always conduct its affairs like the rest of that country. You know, like Florida.
Christof Irran 2 years ago (edited)
An autonomous region is a (formerly) linguistically and culturally distinct region that was arbitrarily split politically, most often as a consequence of a (lost) war, and the components incorporated into separate political countries or nations. See Suedtirol - the southern part of Tirol was taken from Austria after WW1 and made part of Italy, the rest remained with Austria. Since then the German speaking population of Suedtirol has dwindled, yet the region remains culturally distinct from Italy.
Susie Elle 2 years ago
An autonomous region is simply that, a region that has a certain degree of autonomy and freedom from external authorities. This roughly means they have a say in parallel to the main authorities. Sometimes this is based on historical evolution, like Northern Ireland, sometimes it's because of a minority wishing to be seen as a nationality. Unique languages and separate laws can be involved as well. Sometimes it's recognized worldwide, sometimes it isn't. It heavily depends on the area, so therefore I wouldn't say it's comparable to states and provinces.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
possible that their keyboard couldn't do diacritics.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Guys the person who posted this originally isn't even here, BP copy/pastes stuff off Reddit mindlessly. If you want to complain about the phrasing, go here: Complain here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/zvaadm/can_one_of_you_euros_explain_to_me_what_an/
Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago
But since the question has been posted here, and therefore asked here, it’s now a question I have that never knew I wanted to ask. So the answers are awesome and educational. The phrasing is kinda rude, but again since it’s now posted here, too, we get to vent and b***h here about it. :) thank you for the link to the original post. I hate reddit but love BP.
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
it's the original poster, OP, on Reddit not BP management. Complain here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/zvaadm/can_one_of_you_euros_explain_to_me_what_an/
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America's Car Reliance: Getting To Work Across 48 States Mapped
K W 2 years ago
No kidding right? This map is suspect since we have almost zero public transportation and no one is generally close enough to walk to work. The only thing I can think is maybe farms or ranches. But the distribution is weird.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
My commute was 36 km. There is no passenger rail in my area. The bus stop nearest my house is 8 km away, a 90 minute walk...in areas with no sidewalks. The bus ride (including stops and transfers) would take several hours. So, my commuting time for one day of work (8 hour shift) would be another 8 hour shift. Longer during the winter, as I'd be trudging through snowbanks. It's not remotely feasible to do this.
Old Roadie 2 years ago
Car reliance is a direct result of car manufacturers and dealers :cough: influencing :cough: politicians to increase profit. It happened in California, where a cabal of dealerships took down a popular rail line between mountains and beaches.
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
OT, but lake Michigan has a somewhat Swedish shape (which is the more innocent association)
#67
Italian And German Surnames In South America [oc]
![Italian And German Surnames In South America [oc]](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/6464b72483e83_uq895sm47nxa1-png__700.jpg "Italian And German Surnames In South America [oc]")
Glengoolie Blue 2 years ago
I assume this map became much more colorful immediately at the end of WWII.
Jrog 2 years ago
German migration was at his peak after WWI and before WWII. On average, in that period, south america received *every year* a number of Germans larger than the whole wave of post-1945 immigrants.
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In Red, The Territory Comprising The Initial Purchase Offer Given By Us Diplomat James Gadsden To Santa Anna In 1853
Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago
I wish when people are referring to the United States they would use US not Us. It’s very confusing about what the subject is. /rant over
Reviewer UK01 2 years ago
It doesn't matter how you type, every title enforces Title Case and then you just look crazy
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Us Travel Advisory Levels W/ Subdivisions
MiriPanda 2 years ago
Blue: USA, green: excercise normal precautions, yellow: excercise increased precautions (Germany? WTF?), orange: reconsider travel, red: do not travel.
TigerLily 2 years ago
I think it's linked to terrorist attacks for Europe
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
USA should be orange at least. Never know when you might get shot by a random incel or teenager with an AR15. At least the other countries they don't really have lots of guns, certainly not 2:1 guns:people and certainly not concealed carry. I mean outside war zones. I imagine that the terrorism stats for Europe are the reason but it's still rare, it works out at something like 280 people per annum for the whole of europe. Compare to 48,830 people dead from guns in USA - JUST LAST YEAR. Even if you accept that 60% of that is suicide, you still have 19532 dead from homicide etc. STILL 70x more likely to die violently in USA than Europe.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
You are right about the hugely increased gun risk (although to be fair I lived in one of the largest cities for 25 years and never saw a gun, so as bad as it is, the reality isn't like the reputation), but the map is targeted at people already in the US and is meant to convey information about going elsewhere (blue meaning nothing related to level of caution required).
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Equal Wealth Distribution Globally And Locally
FreeDragon 2 years ago
How is this "wealth" calculated? Just money or based on purchasing power? Here a good bread is between 3 - 4 euros, in other countries maybe 50 euro cents. Distributing only money would have a totally different wealth result.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
also need to factor in assets rather than cash salaries etc. My country is relatively rich on salaries but super poor on assets.
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Do You Agree With This Map Of Proposed Time Zones For Europe?
Donkeywheel 2 years ago
Who « proposed » this? No one. Most of the EU countries want to have the same time.
User# 6 2 years ago
Only the governments. Most people living in those countries want a time as close to the actual time (i.e. 12 o'clock is when the sun is at the highest point) as possible. The above map is pretty good in that regard.
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Chase The Lucario 2 years ago
Did you know: Russia spans a total of 11 time zones, and crossing between Norway and Russia changes your clock by 3 hours
Reviewer UK01 2 years ago (edited)
What I notice is "without DST" which is the craziest waste of time and effort and should just vanish. You're gonna chop the island of Ireland into two time zones but we're still going DST?!
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I don't see the point of splitting Eire and Portugal off... just keep in yellow.
#72
The United States As James K. Polk Wanted It [964 X 740]
![The United States As James K. Polk Wanted It [964 X 740]](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/6464b513517fc_pwXoy__700.jpg "The United States As James K. Polk Wanted It [964 X 740]")
Michael Largey 2 years ago
No, it's just that this is about national boundaries, not state boundaries.
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San Andreas
#74
1984 Us Presidential Election
DC 2 years ago
Hard to grasp, but that is truly a landslide victory, and they already had endured four years of trickle down BS. "Reaganomics" is literally what threw a few dozen million people into poverty, and yet, they STILL do the propaganda, and it STILL works.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
It’s not something I advertise often as I’m fairly apolitical now, but when I was a kid in California the 80s, my family was proudly Republican. I’d have told you I was a Republican if you’d asked me in the 80s. By the time the 90s hit, I was becoming disenchanted; Ross Perrot fascinated me as an “independent”. Now, Republicans are nearly unrecognizable from what they were in the 80s, and the few times I HAVE voted in my life, I sure as hell haven’t been voting Republican…
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
just read a book on this. There were lots of tv propaganda moves. People just found Reagan more charismatic.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Since nearly all states are stupidly winner takes all, the county by county map gives a better idea of this election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election#/media/File:1984_United_States_presidential_election_results_map_by_county.svg
Phoenix(or nix)they/them 2 years ago (edited)
I hate Ohio. I live there. I get shït from people for not being a right wing. At least I don't push my views on people, I actually try to be fair about it and not really take an obvious side and just point out flaws on both sides as a solution.
#75
The 10 Countries With The Largest Populations That Didnt Make It Into The World Cup This Year
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What do you think ?
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Hmm I liked most of these but they can be misleading. The thing is to view them with a critical eye but go easy on the author of the post because they are usually just blindly copypasting from Reddit and don't bother checking the details.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
OK pandas, there's a lot of really interesting maps but they're all toward the bottom. Can we vote them up higher please so more people can enjoy them when BP inevitably hides them behind a link at the bottom?
Old Roadie 2 years ago (edited)
Caught myself downvoting (on former #14 about gangs, guns, and violence) but have removed all of those minuses. So many Pandas here find support and healing for surviving horrific prejudice, marginalization, and abuse it's weird to see them sling vitriol at others. By retaliating for the hate I got, I almost bought into their hating. But nope. Not going to be part of that.
Natalie O! 2 years ago
My 8 year olds version of Europe... It won't let me post it. But man--- it is awesome. H started Africa this morning. It's all amazing. Borders countries even the tiny ones fille din with their flag. He has markers and white out, and erasers. He is doing his best to honor every country and every flag. At 8 years old
Donkeywheel 2 years ago
So you’re whining because an article taught you something, aroused your interest but you had to do something on your own?
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Hmm I liked most of these but they can be misleading. The thing is to view them with a critical eye but go easy on the author of the post because they are usually just blindly copypasting from Reddit and don't bother checking the details.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
OK pandas, there's a lot of really interesting maps but they're all toward the bottom. Can we vote them up higher please so more people can enjoy them when BP inevitably hides them behind a link at the bottom?
Old Roadie 2 years ago (edited)
Caught myself downvoting (on former #14 about gangs, guns, and violence) but have removed all of those minuses. So many Pandas here find support and healing for surviving horrific prejudice, marginalization, and abuse it's weird to see them sling vitriol at others. By retaliating for the hate I got, I almost bought into their hating. But nope. Not going to be part of that.
Natalie O! 2 years ago
My 8 year olds version of Europe... It won't let me post it. But man--- it is awesome. H started Africa this morning. It's all amazing. Borders countries even the tiny ones fille din with their flag. He has markers and white out, and erasers. He is doing his best to honor every country and every flag. At 8 years old
Donkeywheel 2 years ago
So you’re whining because an article taught you something, aroused your interest but you had to do something on your own?
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