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#Maps that will help you make sense of the world.

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Global Wheat Cultivation and Yields 🌾
https://t.co/rpwrAl9bWN

#wheat

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Free Tap Water Laws in Restaurants https://t.co/t6HjgjHmHA

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Map of religion in Spain before the edict of Isabella I of Castile in 1502

(by u/ShitteruKoto)

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Spain: 329M overnight stays. France, world's most visited country by arrivals: 150M.
Mallorca: 47.2M overnight stays in 2023. Switzerland, whole country: 27.7M.
https://t.co/yzVoa8Z4V7

#travel #tourism #europe #europeanunion

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Greenland has 25 of the EU's 34 critical raw materials. https://t.co/ZAveKI69BQ

#greenland

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37% of US adults have a college degree.

Among immigrants, depending on where they were born:
India: 82%
Saudi Arabia: 81%
Taiwan: 75%
El Salvador: 9%
Guatemala: 9%
Mexico: 10%

Nigeria (68%) is the one that surprises people every time. https://t.co/C5NGLRiMJ0

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

Y'all liked the US map, so I did Europe. Same approach: every @nytimes international article since 2000 (n≈199,000) turned into a map of which topics are covered disproportionately (where coverage was sufficient to calculate). Results by country below, alphabetical 👇

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November 3, 1921 - Tokyo's morning paper includes a free bird's-eye view of the entire Japanese Empire.
56 million people. 681,000 km² of territory.
Nine days later, Japan was at the Washington Naval Conference as a recognized world power. https://t.co/5Cby8JE1WR

#japan

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The Day Earth Loses All Its Oceans
https://t.co/sjGYHDBoDI

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The EU started with 6 countries in 1957. By 2013 it had 28.

Lithuania's GDP per capita went from 26% to 68% of the EU average after joining in 2004. Poland's unemployment dropped from 19% to 3%.

https://t.co/ulqHrzd8ly

#europeanunion #eu

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If All Ice Melted on Earth
https://t.co/HA3uuMRdCW

#climatechange

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Black Protestantism Across the United States
https://t.co/ivtVX3Z6tA

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Europe's development gap by numbers (UNDP HDR 2025, 2023 data):

Iceland: 0.972 (highest in the world) Ukraine: 0.779 / Moldova: 0.785 / Belarus: 0.824

EU members in Central/Eastern Europe cut nearly 30 points of the gap with the West since 2004.

https://t.co/bPz1lAI9SE

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Your tap water carries a chemical record of the underground rock it passed through.

Midland, TX: ~500 mg/L (Permian Basin limestone) Portland, OR: ~10 mg/L (volcanic mountain watershed)

50x difference in dissolved minerals.
https://t.co/apzYjQ8fug

#unitedstates #water

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Fall Is Getting Warmer Across Every U.S. County Since 1970 https://t.co/0KDgweMhOy

#unitedstates #climatechange

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London: 9.1M people, 24.1 avg dwellings/hectare citywide. But some inner grid squares hit 240-435 dph. Outer suburbs? Just 30-50. https://t.co/Vh3ngkTRKc

#london

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Isochrone map showing how far you can travel by train from Brussels in three hours.
https://t.co/qQIfTxlGTy

#brussels #belgium

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The 100 Million Club: When Countries Reached This Population Milestone https://t.co/dCGDnFLRAf

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Late Cretaceous: no polar ice, seas ~170 m higher, Europe mostly underwater, North America split in two by a shallow sea. https://t.co/IhtybHmQy5

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Uruguay ~77% European genetic ancestry. Argentina ~71%. Bolivia ~12–25%. 16.8 million immigrants between 1820 and 1960 reshaped the southern cone permanently. https://t.co/9rHdoDq17Y

#southamerica