30 Maps With Interesting Facts That Reveal A Ton About The World Around Us

În Romania we are taught English since kindergarten, the in middle school we start learning either French or German as mandatory second language. We have to speak basic English to pass our highschool graduation exam and we need at least basic English to get a lower type of job (the level increases depending on the job.) lots of Romanians either speak German, Italian or Spanish due to their roots and places they've emigrated to so I'm VERY curious about these results.

Does Spanish count as a "foreign language" for the Basques, Catalans and Gallegos?

3.5 languages here bitches! I know some can do up to 9 but let me have this!

Foreign languages = English?

Banding England with Scotland, Wales and NI was brave and bad stats.

This graphic is confusing. Only speaks one language would be clearer.

@ 80% for the non-united states….

I bet the US can beat those percentages.

For me this is a confusing chart. Shouldn't we be comparing the percentage for the same age gap in different countries? And really...Italian people older than 55 REALLY speak other language than Italian. Come on :)) I have lived various years in Italy and Spain and people at that age gap or older do not manage other languages.

Ufff, Scotland hurts. Come on, we can do better than that Scotland.

I thought it would be better with Poland.

You can literally see how far the Vikings got

I always distrust these percentages because people tend to say one thing (usually what is politically correct at the time) but do another.

I work in HE in the UK and there is absolutely data on this.

Pengõ sounds so cute though

Of course this map is biased, because if you need 10 times longer to earn a million, but your living costs are only a tenth, then you are just as rich.

Al Murray: We have to have rules. Where would we be without rules? France! Where would we be with too many rules? Germany!

Scotland is August!

Why are the southern north-Irish multiplying like rabbits? Something in the water?

Really interesting what China are doing in Africa. Soft power / economic imperialism

I found this to be very positive

We have bigger problem with primiparas near 40 .

This is inaccurate. We love beer here in Norway.

My dad died last week and he was 79.9 years old. The American age group hit that nail on its head. He was/is a great dad and I miss him.

Germany is out of date with their lets close nuclear power plants and use coal because nuclear is so evil s**t.

Interesting fact in Hungarian we call Croatia ’Horvátország’ meaning ‘Horváth Country’

Sad really - An Android user /jk 🙃

Why don't people visit Poland?

Don't work long, work smart.

Oh French can speak English, they just don't want to speak it :)

Bhutan?????? How

The first choice as a second language is English.

What economic freedom means depends on what you're free to do. And who is free to do it. To some, economic freedom means no labor, anti-trust, or environmental laws.

This correlates with the BMI one

We have dedicated two islands for their use. Lesbos ad Mykonos/j.

Population change in percentage of population (the more the number the more people are there). No legend, because it's written on every country.

I can’t fathom Nigeria being large enough to sustainably house nearly 800 million people. That population density would be a nightmare.

The other map said that the biggest source of electricity in Germany is renewable sources, and here it's coal. I'm sure this is what we like to think vs. reality. 😅

highly skilled in what? As someone in the Netherlands once said "we have 6 million communication specialists and no one knows how to fix a tap"

Time to use a turkish Proxi

Illegal for men but legal for women? Perverts.

In a map like this, I'd expect the terms used to be 'personal name' and 'family name'. Therefore in the blue it would be personal name + family name. In Spain, it would be personal name + father's family name + mother's family name, and in Iceland, personal name + father's personal name.

He wouldn't have wanted 3 German teams in the world cup.

I suspect Russia's would reduce if they included the military.

Mind. Blown.

Albania would appear to using horse-drawn trains!

Interesting to see Danes, Norwegians and Finns are going to Sweden but the Swedes are going to the US!

If China start WW3, it's going to ruin their export economy.

I'm so glad there was a key on here, I thought the yellow areas were pirates.

We have a lot of international students, mainly because of the, in comparison, low costs of enrolling.

Interesting how places like Turkey have low rates of birth outside marriage but high teen pregnancy. Girls marry young.