World Of Geography

Maps & facts that change how you see the world
Geography is more interesting than you think 🌍

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@Polymarket Most common tick borne diseases by continent:

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The 2026 IIHF World Championship is underway in Switzerland 🏒
All-time gold medals, ranked:
🥇🇨🇦 Canada - 28 golds
🥈🇷🇺 Russia/USSR - 27 golds
🥉🇨🇿 Czechia/Czechoslovakia - 13 golds
4️⃣ 🇸🇪 Sweden - 11 golds
5️⃣ 🇫🇮 Finland - 4 golds
6️⃣ 🇺🇸 USA - 3 golds (defending champion)
Only 6 countries have EVER won the gold medal.
🇱🇻 Latvia has 1 bronze. Still waiting for that gold
#IIHF #Hockey

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@stats_feed These are the countries with the highest smoking rates in the world:

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Bangladesh 🇧🇩 has never won an Olympic medal.
Meanwhile, these countries dominate medals per capita 🏅👇

1.🇫🇮 Finland - ~60+ medals per million people
2.🇭🇺 Hungary - ~55+ per million
3.🇸🇪 Sweden - ~50+ per million
4.🇳🇴 Norway - ~45+ per million
5.🇧🇸 Bahamas - ~40+ per million
6.🇯🇲 Jamaica - ~35+ per million
7.🇳🇿 New Zealand - ~30+ per million
8.🇩🇰 Denmark - ~25+ per million

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@Civixplorer I would argue that out of these countries Cyprus is the most European. Other countries have their own identity

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@patobonato Interesting how Ukraine is put in as a safe country even though there is a war going on now.

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🇩🇪Almost a year ago Friedrich Merz was elected as chancellor and now his approval rating stands at only 18%.
For context:
🇭🇺 Orbán ruled Hungary for 16 years with majority support
🇹🇷 Erdoğan has led Turkey for 23 years
Europe's largest economy. Its most powerful country.
And its leader has the confidence of just 1 in 7 citizens after 6 weeks.
The map of European leadership has never looked this unstable.

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@stats_feed Ukraine also gave up their nukes between 1994 and 1996. At the time they had the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world!

They gave it all up in exchange for security guarantees but we all see how that went for them. Nuclear weapons guarantee security for your country!

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@d_foubert Full thread on the Vistula Canal and why it matters more than ever in 2026 :
https://t.co/scRVP69qtD

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Poland built a canal to escape Russia's grip on Baltic shipping.
Russia tried to stop it. Failed.
Poland opened it on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion. On purpose.
The full story of the most geopolitically savage piece of infrastructure ever built. 🧵🗺️

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For those who don't know what they're looking at:
This is Poland's Vistula Canal — built in 2022 so Polish ships could bypass Russian-controlled waters into the Baltic Sea.
Russia tried to stop its construction. Poland opened it on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. On purpose.
It's not just a canal. It's one of the most geopolitically symbolic pieces of infrastructure ever built.
And now it sits at the centre of a global trade crisis.

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The Vistula Canal cost $450 million.
Critics said it would take 650 years to turn a profit.
They were measuring in trade revenue.
Poland was measuring in something else entirely:
Sovereignty. Independence. The right to reach your own coast without asking permission from the country that invaded you twice in living memory.
Geography is never just geography.
It is always, always about power. 🗺️
Follow @World_Geography for more threads on the geography reshaping our world

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Poland built a canal to escape Russia's grip on Baltic shipping.
Russia tried to stop it. Failed.
Poland opened it on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion. On purpose.
The full story of the most geopolitically savage piece of infrastructure ever built. 🧵🗺️

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Now in 2026, the canal's strategic importance has exploded.
The world's shipping chokepoints are under simultaneous pressure:
🔴 Strait of Hormuz — 95% drop in ship transits
🔴 Red Sea — Houthi attacks forcing Cape of Good Hope rerouting
🔴 Panama Canal — US-China tensions escalating
🟡 Baltic Sea — Russian military posturing intensifying
Poland's 'expensive ditch' suddenly looks like a masterstroke.

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@stats_feed Bald eagles are heavily protected in the US with people facing massive fines for killing them. For example - A 91-year-old North Carolina man was fined $9,500 and forced to surrender his firearm for killing a bald eagle.