Tag: World
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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.
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Not where it says on the ticket: the airports and stations far from their namesake
Frankfurt-Hahn is 103 km from Frankfurt and Paris Vatry 136 km from Paris. I measured how far every airport and every UK railway station stands from the place in its name, and checked every long case by hand.
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The Wealth of Nations, Mapped
The world economy on one map you can play, from 10,000 BC to 2024. China and India made 45% of the world’s output in 1820, 9% in 1950 and 30% in 2024, and the further back you go the more of the map is guesswork.
