Tag: Government

• When did your country lose 11 days? Four great switches, mapped

  

  Britain lost eleven days in 1752, Russia thirteen in 1918, and Saudi Arabia switched its civil calendar only in 2016. I mapped when every country the sources date changed calendar, side of the road, units and votes for women.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, Clocks and calendars, Early modern, Europe, Government, history, maps, Place search, Twentieth century, Wikipedia, Women and gender, World, world maps

• How the world is governed: 197 countries, 112 systems

  

  Democracy or not is only the first question. Compare head of state, executive, federalism, chambers and voting system, and the world’s 197 countries fall into 12 families and 112 exact systems. 80 countries have a system nobody else shares.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Classification, elections, Government, Present day, World, world maps

• Capitals that moved: every capital move since 1500, and how far each went

  

  184 moves of a capital since 1500, from St Petersburg to Brasília to Ciudad de la Paz. The longest was a flight: the Portuguese court, 7,716 km from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro in 1808.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Checked by hand, cities, Early modern, Government, history, Long view, Towns and cities, Wikidata, World

• Every Embassy in the World

  

  15,584 embassies, consulates and missions on one map. Washington hosts 181 embassies, the Holy See runs 88 nunciatures, and the resident embassy turns out to be a Renaissance invention.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cities, Government, OpenStreetMap, Present day, Wikidata, World, world maps

• Who is your town twinned with?

  

  I drew all 29,437 twin town and sister city links on Wikidata as arcs on one map: a post-war European habit that peaked in 1990, reached across the Iron Curtain and out to Japan and China, and lost dozens of Russian links after 2022.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Europe, Flow map, Government, Place search, Town twinning, Twentieth century, Wikidata, World