Maps I find crazy.
"Americans were asked to point to Iran on a map."
Oh! This is interesting.
So 28% of people managed to successfully identify which country was Iran.
In all fairness to the Americans asked
internationally, it's not a super well-known country,
but I will say there are some dreadful guesses here.
Look at all the people that clicked on India.
Look at all the people that clicked France!
A few people clicked the United Kingdom!
Surely they were messing about.
A concerning number of people clicked Russia, which is pretty dreadful.
Lots of people clicked Iraq. That one I could understand.
"Argentina's official map."
Oh! Here we go.
It's every piece of land claimed by Argentina.
They've got actual Argentina,
then a few islands knocking about, and then a big slice of Antarctica!
I'm more than happy with Argentina claiming this bit of Antarctica.
Look at it. It's like they're reaching out
trying to hold hands with each other.
How cute.
"A map of every American city."
There'll be a monstrous highway interstate superfreeway.
A dopey roadside attraction.
A mega church and a mega supermarket, loads of pizzas and bars,
and then a historic building that was established in 1965.
"Did you know there was a part of Italy completely surrounded by Switzerland?"
No, I actually had no idea Italy had any exclaves.
It's called Campione d'Italia,
but apparently Stan before 1929, it was just called Campione.
But then Mussolini renamed it d'Italia on the end
so that there was no doubt how Italian Campione d'Italia was.
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Whoa, "European countries where Jews were allowed to exist in 1500."
This is something I know embarrassingly little about.
I'm assuming it's because these were Christian states,
but apparently Jews were banned in England, France, Portugal,
Castile, Aragon.
They were permitted in the Roman and Ottoman Empires.
Totally banned in Lithuania.
Then no record of anything going on in these other countries,
"Fertility rates in Europe."
This is suggesting that in the UK
women generally have about one to two children,
which sounds about right.
I think that is getting lower as people realise that children are a bit gross.
You can see fertility rates are much higher in Turkey
where it's more like having 2-4 children.
Interesting how low it is in Finland
compared to neighbouring countries like Sweden.
Also interesting to see the low fertility rates
around the Mediterranean there, too.
"Poverty in South America."
So, in 2012, Argentina and Chile were doing "okay",
whereas now in 2022, 36% of Argentinians are now in poverty.
That is absolutely terrible.
Also really sad to say that Venezuela has gone from 29% to 90%.
Once again, as a privileged white British person,
I don't hear about any of this stuff.
"Where the death penalty survives around the world."
Interesting phrasing.
The death penalty is legal in a surprising number of countries.
I didn't realize that.
Most of Asia and Africa still allow and use the death penalty.
Quite interesting seeing the number of countries
where it's technically allowed
but not really used anymore, such as Russia and Papua New Guinea.
In some countries like Brazil and Kazakhstan
it's illegal, but with exceptions for particularly bad people, I assume.
Then also in basically all of Europe, plus a few commonwealth countries,
it is totally illegal,
which I think is the right move, maybe.
But I understand why some people would disagree.
"Greater Tokyo versus Greater London."
That really puts things into scale because I think London's massive.
Then you see that and it's not massive at all.
Greater Tokyo is literally on top of my house right now,
while still teetering around London. Look at that.
Number of people born in the given country
currently living abroad, as a percentage of the current population."
This is saying of the 100% of people that were born in the UK,
7.6 % of them are currently living in another country.
This is really interesting map.
There's going to be so many different reasons for this.
You can see in Ireland, it's really high, 18%.
With my assumption being that people have moved to the US and the UK
for work reasons.
Then it's really low in nice countries like Spain and France and Sweden,
because the countries are so nice and pretty,
why would you want to go anywhere else?
Then you can see a lot of people migrating in these Balkan countries,
presumably because the government
has made them not particularly nice places to live, which is sad.
Same with areas like Ukraine and Belarus, etc.
"I made this height map of the population density
around the Nile River using a 3D-printer and a laser cutter."
That is epic. Look at that from above.
Egypt's population density just follows the Nile.
Then because there's just desert everywhere else,
there's not really anyone kicking about.
It's amazing to say that a 3D printer made this though.
Look at that. That's really, really cool.
I'm assuming the spiky bits are Alexandria and Cairo.
Yep. That's fact checked, good.
"Place names you would laugh at when you were 8."
Cockermouth!
Cockermouth's not that weird to me because I'd been to Cockermouth many times
throughout my childhood because it wasn't that far away.
I also lived near somewhere called Cockfield as well.
It's all quite normal. You don't want to live there.
I will be honest.
We've also got Homo and Dingle, which I think are my favorites.
Any other good ones?
Bra.
Gay.
I can't just laugh the word gay, can I?
It's just the fact that it's sat away from the others.
Woah. This looks dramatic.
"During the Emeian interglacial," which was 130,000 years ago,
"average annual global temperatures were about 3 degrees higher than today.
The associated rise in sea level connected the Baltic and White seas,
making Scandinavia an island."
They're totally separated.
Isn't that epic thinking about the people who were knocking about back then?
Like of chopping trees and stuff.
"How Greenland looks in ten different projections."
Most common map projection is, of course, the Mercator projection.
That is a very recognisable Greenland.
But all of these others just getting stretched all over the place,
bless them.
Greenland's in an awkward spot, though. They're right up the top.
"Australian latitude in perspective."
What am I looking at there?
Right, that's an upside down Australia and an upside down Papua New Guinea,
so it must be the other side of the world.
USA is here,
and then this would be where Australia would be.
Don't know why I just started an urge to start squeezing then.
A really insightful map and I feel I really lowered the tone.
I'm sorry about that.
"Europe light maps, so beautiful."
So interesting seeing the big bursts of light in each capital city.
Tell you what, though? Italy and Belgium,
you need to turn your lights off, guys.
Why is there so many lights?
Woah! "A useful world map for whales and dolphins."
What about sharks?
People are mean to sharks, and they're really cool.
This is really interesting to visualize, though.
This area of South America is just not recognisable from this angle.
Africa obviously looks exactly the same,
but then North America also looks really weird,
really puts into perspective how massive the oceans are.
"Number of boars," as in wild pigs, I assume,
"per kilometre squared versus the Polish presidential election results."
Why do they correlate so well? How are they linked?
I've looked through the comments
and this is the best guess that people have got.
"Boars live in forests.
Forests are more likely to be in rural areas rather than urban.
Rural areas are more likely to be conservative
and vote for a particular party."
Yeah, that makes sense.
"Mayans still exists.
Here is a map showing the distribution of Mayan languages."
Where are we? Is this the bottom of Mexico?
Yes. Yes, it is.
Wow. That's really interesting.
"Balkans in 1354."
That is a long time ago, and it just puts into perspective
how old some of the countries are.
Hungary and Serbia, and Bulgaria still just kicking about.
Naples is still called Naples,
but obviously these days it is part of Italy.
Same with Venice.
Then we've got Ottoman Empire creeping into Italy.
This is really interesting.
Even Moldavia, it looks to be the same shape
as modern day Moldova.
This is fascinating.
"Map of a not yet fully discovered Australia 1650."
They literally didn't know how to finish off the drawing
because they hadn't been there yet.
That's mental to think about.
Interesting they got this bit down here done, isn't it?
"A map of the world made by time zones."
This is really interesting.
I love seeing specific outlines of countries
such as India and Argentina over here.
Then you've got these weird shapes over in the Pacific Ocean,
I think caused by Karabas changing time zones.
Do you know what? I'd have this framed. It would look epic.
Looking at this map,
it's clear that China being only one time zone
really doesn't make that much sense,
because it spreads across what should effectively be
four different time zones.
It's going to be very dark, very early for a lot of the population.
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