Tag: World
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The renamed world: who changed the names of places, and why
Tsaritsyn, Stalingrad, Volgograd. I read every dated official name of a place in Wikidata and found 6,842 true renamings, in waves of revolution, its undoing, war, independence and nation-building. The busiest year of all: Romania, 1964.
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Who named Antarctica? Twenty thousand place names, the nations that gave them and the people they honour
I mapped 20,151 Antarctic place names by who named them, when and after whom. America and Britain named 46% of the continent, and only 3.4% of the people honoured are women.
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The Known World
A dark world that lights up as travellers wrote it down. From 681 journeys: Europe’s recorded world covered 20% of the land in 1492 and 67% in 1900, and much of the dark had been recorded by China, the Islamic world or Polynesian voyagers first.
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Who’s on the mountains? The birthplaces of the people the world’s peaks are named after
I linked 2,228 mountains named after people to their namesakes’ birthplaces. 84% of the person-named peaks of Australia and New Zealand honour someone born on another continent.
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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.
