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40 maps that explain the world


Maps are remarkably the Most powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, But whatever you ask them, it show only that part. Inspired from the other Web titled "15 Maps They Didn’t Teach You In Your High School," We are sharing Some other Maps with a different theme. Some of these are pretty nerdy, but I think they're no less fascinating and easily understandable. I've included a link for the detail Reading close to every one.


1. A political map of the world, circa 200 A.D.
Click to enlarge. (Imgur)
Click to enlarge. (Imgur)
What's more amazing: how much things have changed over the last 1,800 years, a major chunk of the civilizational history of humanity, or how many of this map's divisions are still with us today?

2. Where people are the most and least welcoming to foreigners
Click to enlarge. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: World Economic Forum. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
This might be useful in planning your next vacation, although there are some big surprises in the results.

3. The world's major writing systems
Click to enlarge. (Wikimedia Commons)
Click to enlarge. (Wikimedia Commons)
This map is a reminder that the world's divisions and commonalities go much deeper than national borders. It also helps to tell the stories of a few major events that still shape the globe, the echoes of which you can see in almost every map on this page:European colonialism, the Arabic-speaking Islamic conquests of the 7th century, the Russian expansions of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the (still-ongoing!) unifications of India and China.

4. The best and worst places to be born
Click to enlarge. Data source: Economist intelligence unit. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Economist intelligence unit. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)

5. World map of major religions
Click to enlarge (Pew)
Click to enlarge (Pew)
Read here about how Christianity came to dominate so much of the globe and what that means today. Read below for more on the Islamic world.

6. The countries where people are the most and least emotional
Click to enlarge. Data source: Gallup (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Gallup (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
People in yellow countries are the least likely to report having emotional experiences of any kind, positive or negative. Purple countries are where people report experiencing the most feelings. If you're surprised to see that the United States is among the world's most emotional countries (but far from No. 1) or want to learn why some regions are so unemotional, you can read all about it here.

7. A European missionary's map of Africa, circa 1908
I have this one hanging over my desk in part because of its appeal as a historic document (the borders are tellingly rough) but also as a reminder of the colonial legacy in Africa, which European powers divided up a century ago with little respect for how actual Africans wanted to be grouped. Those arbitrary borders are still with us today, in part because African leaders agreed not to dispute them when they won independence. The borders contribute significantly to conflict and unrest on the continent because there are so many diverse communities forced together.

8. Where people are the most and least racially tolerant
Click to enlarge. Data source: World Values Survey (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: World Values Survey (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
People in blue countries are more likely to say that they would be OK with living next door to someone of a different race. People in red countries are less likely. The mapsuggests some big and potentially surprising lessons for how race is treated around the world. But it's an imperfect (and controversial) metric, so do read these five insights from an ethnic conflict specialist on the map and what it tells us.

9. The world's most and least ethnically diverse countries
Click to enlarge. Data source: Harvard Institute for Economic Research (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Harvard Institute for Economic Research (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
This shows the world's most diverse countries, its most homogenous and, if you look closely, a whole lot more.

10. Where people feel the most and least loved
Click to enlarge. Data source: Gallup (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Gallup (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Red countries are where people feel the most loved; blue countries are where they feel the least loved. Here's the story behind those sadder, bluer spots on the map.

11. A Russian professor thinks the U.S. will break up into these four countries
(Laris Karklis/Washington Post)
(Laris Karklis/Washington Post)
Professor Igor Panarin became a minor celebrity in Russia when he first unveiled his grim prediction for the future of the United States, which was widely covered by Russian state media and treated as credible. Panarin said the United States would break apart under internal strain and form four different countries, with only one wholly independent while the others fell under foreign influence or control. I've included it both for a taste of how the United States is sometimes perceived abroad and to give American readers a sense for what it can feel like to have the outside world get your country so wildly wrong.

12. Who loves and hates America
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
People in blue countries are more likely to view the United States favorably; people in red countries are more likely to view it unfavorably. The map has some big implications for America's role in the world.

13. How the U.S. and China compare on global popularity
Blue countries view the U.S. more favorably than they do China; red countries are the reverse. Data source: Pew (Max Fisher/The Washington Post)
Blue countries view the U.S. more favorably than they do China; red countries are the reverse. Data source: Pew (Max Fisher/The Washington Post)
This map is actually mostly good news for the United States. Here's why.

14. China's disastrous passport
My annotation of a photo of China's new passport. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
My annotation of a photo of China's new passport. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Sometimes maps can spark geopolitical events rather than just reflecting them, as China did when it issued new passports containing this map. Why the controversy? The areas I've highlighted in red are marked as Chinese on the map but actually are in dispute or are administered by other countries. This did not go over well.
15. Gay rights around the world
Click to enlarge (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge (Max Fisher/Washington Post)

16. Where people are the most and least tolerant of homosexuality
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew (Max Fisher/Washington Post)

17. Languages and dialects of the Middle East and Central Asia
Click to enlarge. Each color represents a language group, with shades for each dialect. (The Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University)
Click to enlarge. Each color represents a language group, with shades for each dialect. (The Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University)
The first thing this map shows you is the remarkable diversity in one of the world's oldest and most storied regions, from Iraq in the West all the way to China in the East and Russia in the North. There are a hundred other stories embedded in here: the expansion of Iran beyond just Persian-speaking peoples, the fracturing of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the really stunning diversity packed into the Caucasus, which includes the troubled Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan.

18. Where people smoke the most (and least) cigarettes per person
Annual per capita cigarette consumption rates. Data sources: World Lung Foundation and American Cancer Society. (Max Fisher / Washington Post)
Annual per capita cigarette consumption rates. Data sources: World Lung Foundation and American Cancer Society. (Max Fisher / Washington Post)
Read more here about Russia's cigarette problem, which costs the country an estimated $48 billion every year, and about the other smoking trends seen in the map.

19. Economic inequality around the world
Higher gini coefficient scores indicate higher economic inequality. (Wikimedia Commons)
Higher gini coefficient scores indicate higher economic inequality. (Wikimedia Commons)
This map shows each country's gini coefficient, which measures economic inequality. The red countries are the most unequal under the metric, and the green countries are the closest to nationwide economic equality. More here.

20. How the U.S. compares to the world on economic inequality
Click to enlarge. Blue countries are more equal than the U.S., red countries are more unequal. (Max Fisher)
Click to enlarge. (Max Fisher)
Blue countries are more equal than the U.S., red countries are less equal. This map gives you a sense of just how severe economic inequality is in the United States; much higher than in any other developed country, and most developing countries as well.

21. Global crop yields are stagnating
One of four maps showing projected changes in major crop yields. (University of Michigan)
One of four maps showing projected changes in major crop yields. (University of Minnesota)
A University of Minnesota study recently published in the journal Nature found that a significant share of the world's crop-growing regions are seeing growth stagnate, slow or even collapse. They published three other maps; see the others and why they think it's so important to "sound the alert" here.

22. The best and worst countries to be a mother
Click to enlarge. Data source: Save the Children. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Save the Children. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
A international NGO designed a complex formula to indicate which countries are better or worse for mothers. Click here to see what their formula measures and to read about the study's implications for mothers worldwide.

23. How al-Qaeda is changing
(The Washington Post)
(The Washington Post)

24. More than half of humanity lives inside this circle
(Imgur)
(Imgur)

25. Legal systems of the world
Legal systems of the world. Click to enlarge. (Wikimedia Commons)
Click to enlarge. (Wikimedia Commons)
One reason I find this map fascinating is it shows how British colonialism took the English "common law" legal system -- once nearly unique in the world -- and has now spread it across every continent. You can also see that religious law is unique to Islamic countries (although it didn't use to be) and that customary law, once near-global, is now almost extinct.

26. How far Hamas's rockets can reach into Israel

View GazaMissiles in a larger map
This helps drive home why Israel is so concerned about Hamas, the Gaza-based Islamist militant group, and in particular about its access to Iranian-made Fajr-5 rockets. Those are the ones that can reach into the light-yellow region.

27. North Korea's missile range
(Voice of America)
(Voice of America)
North Korea makes its missile program sound like a terrifying and immediate threat to the United States, but, as this map demonstrates, that rhetoric far exceeds actual capability.

28. Child poverty in the developed world
Click to enlarge. Data source: UNICEF. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: UNICEF. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
The United States ranks 34th out of the developed world's 35 countries by child poverty rates, above only Romania. The United States doesn't do much better on overall child well-being.

29. The cancer villages of China
Locations of communities where cancer rates have spiked recently. (Global Times via Weibo)
Locations of communities where cancer rates have spiked recently. (Global Times via Weibo)
China's problem with "cancer villages," or communities where cancer rates are spiking, thought to be due to rapidly worsening pollution, have become such a big problem that even Communist Party-run outlet Global Times felt compelled to share this map on Chinese social media.

30. What Europeans think about the European Union
Data source: Eurobarometer. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Data source: Eurobarometer. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Europe's economic slump is no secret, but how people within the European Union feel about their big collective experiment can very widely. This map is a pretty telling indication of whom the E.U. has helped, whom it has hurt and who think they shouldn't really count as European (read: the United Kingdom).

31. Meet the world's 26 remaining monarchies
(Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey/Washington Post)
(Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey/Washington Post)
There are barely two dozen left, and only 11 of them are really still in charge, but they've all got a story to tell. Read a mini-bio of each one here.

32. The diversity of the Levant
Click to enlarge. Each color represents a language group, with shades for each dialect. (<a href=
This color-coded map shows the different ethnic groups of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel. There's an awful lot of history packed into this corner of the world -- and maybe some of the deepest ethnic and religious animosities anywhere in the world.

33. The nuclear powers, after the Cold War
Click to enlarge. (International Law and Policy Institute)
Click to enlarge. (International Law and Policy Institute)
The Cold War may have ended, but its thousands of nuclear warheads are still around -- and often still divided along the same lines. This map shows in blue the Russian "umbrella states," which are formally under the protection of Russian nuclear weapons, and in orange the "umbrella states" protected by the U.S./NATO. The five other nuclear powers -- Israel, Pakistan, India, China and North Korea -- are in gray.

34. How people think their economies are doing
Click to enlarge. Data source: Gallup (Max Fisher/Washington Post)Click to enlarge. Data source: Gallup (Max Fisher/Washington Post)[/caption]
People in red countries are pessimistic about their country's economy; people in blue countries are more optimistic. With a handful of exceptions (cough cough, China), economists seem to agree.

35. A partial map of geopolitical anomalies
Click to enlarge. (Martin Lewis/Stanford University)
Click to enlarge. (Martin Lewis/Stanford University)
Each of these red markers cheekily indicates some unusual or unique phenomenon -- for example, Abkhazia, the "barely recognized puppet state" just between Russia and Georgia. (Read more on Abkhazia and other not-yet-real countries here.) My favorite may be the various overseas French territories, such as French Guyana, that are simply and accurately labeled "France." The map was designed by Stanford Professor Martin Lewis; read his full post explaining the map here.

36. Where the atheists live
Click to enlarge. Data source: WIN/Gallup International poll. (Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: WIN/Gallup International poll. (Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey/Washington Post)
Plenty of godlessness in China, Japan and a few European countries, perhaps unsurprisingly. But there are lot more atheists in places like Saudi Arabia than you might think, despite the fact that it's considered a serious crime.

37. What the Muslim world believes, part 1: democracy
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
The first of three maps from a comprehensive study on attitudes and views in the Muslim world (full breakdown of the report here) shows that most Muslims broadly support democracy, with a few telling exceptions.

38. What the Muslim world believes, part 2: religious conflict
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Significant shares of just about every large Muslim population worry about religious conflict (there is a widespread view in many Muslim-majority countries that the religion is under siege from the outside world). That share is more than half in four countries: Tunisia, Pakistan, Nigeria and Niger.

39. What the Muslim world believes, part 3: honor killings
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Click to enlarge. Data source: Pew. (Max Fisher/Washington Post)
Red indicates countries where most surveyed Muslims believe that "honor killings" -- the practice of killing someone, typically a member of your own family, for having sex out of wedlock -- are sometimes justified. Blue indicates countries where most surveyed Muslims believe it is never justified.

40. The world as seen from space, over a 12-month time-lapse

This NASA moving image, recorded by satellite over a full year as part of their Blue Marble Project, shows the ebb and flow of the seasons and vegetation. Both are absolutely crucial factors in every facet of human existence -- so crucial we barely even think about them. It's also a reminder that the Earth is, for all its political and social and religious divisions, still unified by the natural phenomena that make everything else possible.

15 Maps They Didn’t Teach You In Your High School

By the time we graduate high school, we learn that they never taught us the most interesting things in there. Sure, you might be able to name the European countries or point New York on the map, but does that give a you real understanding of how the world functions? To fill this gap, we have gathered a great and informative selection of infographical maps that they should’ve shown us at school: every single one of these maps reveals different fun and interesting facts, which can actually help you draw some pretty interesting conclusions.
What makes infographical maps so engaging is how easy it becomes to conceive graphically presented information. The best part, there are brilliant services like Target Map that “allow everyone (from individuals to large organizations) to represent their data on maps of any country in the world and to share their knowledge with the whole Internet Community.” Just choose a country and a way to create your map by color, type values or by uploading your excel files (you can even use your zip / postal code column to get the best and most accurate maps.
Without further ado, we invite you to learn things like most popular sports in different countries, who has the largest breasts, red hair map of Europe, world’s most consumed alcoholic beverages, or which brands dominate in different states of the USA.
Trust us, these are way better than the ones they taught you at school!
1. The Most Famous Brands In US 
Maps on the Web has posted an infographic titled “The Corporate States of America” where each state is represented by it’s most famous brand. While some are common knowledge, others remain less known.
Do you agree that these are the most famous brands from United States?

2. Map of People Having Red Hairs

3. Most Popular Sports In the World

4. Breast Sizes With Countries mentioned
Average Breast Cup Size in the World

5. Maps of the Political World as pangea 200-300 million years ago


6.The World According to America

7. Map showing Browsers Usage in Countries

8. Map of Countries Not Using Metric System

9. Penis Size World Wide

10. Map of Countries Most and Least Welcoming to Foreigners


11. Different names of beer in Different Countries
12. Situation of Freedom of Press 

13. Map of world that Inverts Land and Sea


14. Adult Obesity Worldwide


15. Map of the Most common Surnames in United States


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