Four labs. Four connections. The entire internet, 1969. First transmission crashed because SRI was configured for 10 characters per second and ARPANET sent 5,000. Charley Kline was 21 years old. He fixed it an hour later and nobody noticed. vividmaps.com/first-map-of...
#internet
When Countries Reach 50 Million People
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The Best Scratch-Off Maps in 2026
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Remove Christianity, Islam, and Judaism from Europe's religious map. What's left? Buddhism across most of it. Neopaganism in the Baltics and Iceland. Zoroastrianism in Azerbaijan. Tengrism in Turkey. vividmaps.com/non-abrahami...
#religion #europe
Who Actually Pays for America’s Roads? vividmaps.com/how-are-your...
Lines on the Land: U.S. County Borders in 3D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBHp...
#unitedstates
Africa’s 50 Most Populous Cities in 2025. The gap between Cairo (25.6M) and Lagos (12.8M) is roughly the population of the Netherlands. vividmaps.com/largest-citi...
South Korea's fertility rate in 2025: 0.75.
Macau: 0.69.
The replacement level is 2.1.
More than half the world's countries are now below that line — including
Brazil, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and Iran.
Chad leads at 5.94. The world average is 2.24.
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Every U.S. state has its own license plate design — colors, symbols, slogans. Wyoming's cowboy logo has been there since 1936. Delaware's current design dates to 1959. vividmaps.com/license-plat...
#unitedstates
Who Can Reach Whom? A Look at Maximum Missile Ranges Beyond the Big Five vividmaps.com/maximum-miss...
5 Maps That Help You Understand Iran vividmaps.com/iran-mapped/
#iran
Canada has 9.98 million km² of territory and 40 million people — 4.5 per km², one of the lowest population densities of any country on Earth.
Between 2015 and 2025 it admitted 3,894,285 permanent residents.
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#canada
Scotland attempted five colonies in the Americas — Nova Scotia (1629), Charles Island in the Galápagos (1627), East New Jersey (1683), Stuarts Town in Carolina (1684), and New Caledonia in Panama (1698). vividmaps.com/scottish-col...
#scotland
Europe has five distinct playing card suit systems, and this map by hunmapper shows where each one dominates.
French suits are the youngest, appearing around 1480. Italian and Spanish Latin suits are the oldest, dating to around 1370.
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#playingcards
The Best World Map Posters in 2026 vividmaps.com/world-map-po...
#mapposter
195 countries, very unevenly distributed. Africa: 54. Europe: 43 in 10.5M km². South America, larger than Europe: 12. Europe fits roughly 6x more countries per unit of area than South America. vividmaps.com/countries-by...
#geography
Lines on the Land: U.S. County Borders in 3D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBHp...
#unitedstates
Distance tool: click two spots on a map, get the great-circle distance
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#geography
How Germans Roast Each Other: Germany Stereotype Maps vividmaps.com/germany-ster...
#germany
In 1980, China ($275) was below India ($533) in per capita income.
By 2026: China at $31,023. India at $12,964. Around 60 countries now below India, up from 13 in 1980.
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#India
First time in modern history: Christians are less than half the UK population (46.5%). Non-religious identification reached 37.8%. vividmaps.com/uk-religion-...
#unitedkingdom
Martin Behaim's Erdapfel: the world's oldest surviving globe, made in 1492.
The Americas don't appear. Earth's circumference is calculated 11,000 km too small. This is what Columbus was working with when he planned his westward route.
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#oldmaps
Countries With the Most Immigrants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaO3...
#immigrants
Elevation lookup for any point on Earth 🌍
Click map or enter coordinates (decimal/DMS). Get elevation in meters + feet
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#elevation
Edward Quin's 1856 atlas documents when each part of the world became known to Western civilization, 2348 BC to 1811 AD. Romans didn't know about the Americas. Napoleon didn't know about Antarctica. vividmaps.com/mapping-worl...
Trump's vs. Putin's Approval Ratings in Europe, 2026
#Trump #Putin
Happy Valley-Goose Bay: -22°C (53°N)
Dublin: 2°C (53°N)
The Gulf Stream creates 20-24°C gaps across the entire North Atlantic.
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#climate #atlantic
The most common natural disasters across the United States.
#UnitedStates
27 countries write in scripts they invented. Everyone else borrowed.
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#languages
Immigration by Country: A World Map of Foreign-Born Populations www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUBN...
#immigration
