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Jun 13
Ile-de-France: ~12.6M. Lombardia: ~10M. Andalucia: ~8.7M. Cataluna: ~8.2M. Central Paris: 21,000 people/km². Lapland: 2/km². Europe's population concentrates in one curved arc from England to northern Italy. vividmaps.com/europe-most-po…
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Jun 12
Three ethnic groups account for 2 billion people.
Han Chinese: 1.4B (mainly China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia)
Arabs: ~420M (Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia diaspora)
Bengalis: ~300M (Bangladesh West Bengal, India)
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Jun 8
River Basins As Countries
credit: @VividMaps
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Jun 10
Unemployment in Europe vividmaps.com/unemployment-i…
Spain hit 26% unemployment in 2013. January 2026: Spain 9.8%, below 10% for first time since 2008. Finland now leads EU at 10.2%, up from 7% three years ago. Greece 7.7%. Poland and Bulgaria 3.1%.
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Jun 6
Researchers calculated the exact income level where more money stops improving wellbeing. The "price of happiness" by country ranges from $10,176 (Ethiopia) to $163,579 (Iceland). vividmaps.com/price-of-happi…
#income #wellbeing #happiness
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Jun 5
Arctic population density map. Russia 4.5 people per sq km in Murmansk. Canada 0.02 per sq km in Nunavut. vividmaps.com/arctic-populat…
#arctic
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Jun 1
Spain: 329M overnight stays. France, world's most visited country by arrivals: 150M.
Mallorca: 47.2M overnight stays in 2023. Switzerland, whole country: 27.7M.
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#travel #tourism #europe #europeanunion
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May 31
Greenland has 25 of the EU's 34 critical raw materials. vividmaps.com/what-lies-unde…
#greenland
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May 21
37% of US adults have a college degree.
Among immigrants, depending on where they were born:
India: 82%
Saudi Arabia: 81%
Taiwan: 75%
El Salvador: 9%
Guatemala: 9%
Mexico: 10%
Nigeria (68%) is the one that surprises people every time. vividmaps.com/percentage-imm…
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May 18
Y'all liked the US map, so I did Europe. Same approach: every @nytimes international article since 2000 (n≈199,000) turned into a map of which topics are covered disproportionately (where coverage was sufficient to calculate). Results by country below, alphabetical 👇
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May 20
November 3, 1921 - Tokyo's morning paper includes a free bird's-eye view of the entire Japanese Empire.
56 million people. 681,000 km² of territory.
Nine days later, Japan was at the Washington Naval Conference as a recognized world power. vividmaps.com/map-of-japan-1…
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May 19
The EU started with 6 countries in 1957. By 2013 it had 28.
Lithuania's GDP per capita went from 26% to 68% of the EU average after joining in 2004. Poland's unemployment dropped from 19% to 3%.
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May 16
Europe's development gap by numbers (UNDP HDR 2025, 2023 data):
Iceland: 0.972 (highest in the world) Ukraine: 0.779 / Moldova: 0.785 / Belarus: 0.824
EU members in Central/Eastern Europe cut nearly 30 points of the gap with the West since 2004.
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