40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World

By Teresa Thomerson in Facts On 17th July 2015
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#1 The map of the most common surnames in Europe.

#2 Map of ‘Pangea,’ (the supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, that formed about 300 million years ago) with Current International Borders

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#3 Paid Maternal Leave Around the World

#4 Worldwide Driving Orientation by Country

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#5 The Only 22 Countries in the World Britain Has Not Invaded (not shown: Sao Tome and Principe)

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#6 Countries That Do Not Use the Metric System

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#7 McDonald’s Across the World

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#8 Where Google Street View is Available

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#9 Map of Time Zones in Antarctica

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#10 Global Internet Usage Based on Time of Day

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#11 The World’s Busiest Air Routes in 2012

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#12 Visualizing Global Population Density

#13 Flag Map of the World

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#14 Map of Alcohol Consumption Around the World

#15 Map of Alcoholic Drink Popularity by Country

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#16 Map of Rivers in the Contiguous United States

#17 US Map of the Highest Paid Public Employees by State

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#18 World Map of Earthquakes Since 1898

#19 Map of Where 29,000 Rubber Duckies Made Landfall After Falling off a Cargo Ship in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean

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#20 Map of Countries with the Most Violations of Bribery

#21 World Map of Vegetation on Earth

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#22 Average Age of First Sexual Intercourse by Country

#23 If the World’s Population Lived in One City

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#24 The Number of Researchers per Million Inhabitants Around the World

#25 Worldwide Map of Oil Import And Export Flows

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#26 The 7000 Rivers that Feed into the Mississippi River

#27 World Map of the Different Writing Systems

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#28 Worldwide Annual Coffee Consumption Per Capita

#29 The Economic Center of Gravity Since 1 AD

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#30 The World Divided Into 7 Regions, Each with a Population of 1 Billion

#31 Earth’s Population by Latitude and Longitude

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#32. Map of Contiguous United States Overlaid on the Moon

#33. Frequency of Lightning Strikes Throughout the World

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#34. Overall Water Risk Around the World

#35. The Most Dangerous Areas in the World To Ship Due to Pirates

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#36. Area Codes in Which Ludacris Claims to Have H*es (song reference)

#37. Where 2% of Australia’s Population Lives

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#38. The Longest Straight Line You Can Sail on Earth (Pakistan to Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia – 20000 miles)

#39 Reversed Map with Southern Hemisphere at Top of Map (because position of North is arbitrary)

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#40 Map of Europe Showing Literal Chinese Translations for Country Names