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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Butter map is up. 13 of 182 countries pass 5 kg (11 lb) per person and 101 stay under 1 kg (2.2 lb). Europe fills the top of the ranking, with New Zealand and Iceland in the mix. vividmaps.com/butter-consu... #butter

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nelson County, North Dakota posted the highest Mainline Protestant share of any US county in 2020, 69.45 percent, more than three times the state's own average. vividmaps.com/mainline-pro...

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cape Town logged 3,231 homicides, the most of any city on the list, yet ranks 18th by rate. Colima logged 601 and ranks first. vividmaps.com/most-violent... #homicide

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New map series, 71 countries, median monthly wages from 2000 to 2026. vividmaps.com/highest-lowe... #salary #wage

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Median age by continent today ranges from 17.9 in Africa to 44.7 in Europe. Pulled back to 2000 and forward to 2100, South America climbs faster than any other continent and nearly closes the gap with Europe. vividmaps.com/median-age-b... #maps

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Citywide NYC complaint totals in 2025 stand 6.8 percent above 2006. Queens and the Bronx are up more than 14 percent each, Manhattan and Brooklyn are close to flat, Staten Island is down almost 13 percent and never recovered its 2006 level. vividmaps.com/new-york-cit... #nyc #newyorkcity

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A map sorting European countries by how they answer an unknown call. Most default to a hello variant (allô, alo, halló, алло). A few break off entirely: Italy's pronto (ready), Poland's słucham (I'm listening), Germany's own surname. vividmaps.com/how-europe-a...

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Forbes has always excluded royalty from its richest person rankings. That one rule is the only reason the Sultan of Brunei's larger 1997 fortune never took the title from Bill Gates. vividmaps.com/richest-pers...

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A small coastal strip called Latium gave the world Latin. By the 2nd century AD that language covered an empire of nearly 5,000,000 sq km. Today it lives on as Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. vividmaps.com/homeland-of-... #romanempire #latinlanguage

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

An 1837 school atlas ranked every country on Earth from Savage to Enlightened. The original chart next to a 2013 redesign. vividmaps.com/moral-and-po... #maps

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New data from the FAO reports global forest cover at 32 percent of Earth's land, 41.4 million square kilometers or 16 million square miles. Mapped out country by country, the differences are massive. vividmaps.com/forests-of-t... #forests

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Denmark keeps roughly 2 pigs per resident, the highest ratio Eurostat tracks in the EU. Chad has more camels than anywhere else. vividmaps.com/pigs-vs-came... #camels #pigs

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mapped median household income around every BART stop using ACS five-year estimates. ZIP-level data inside SF, Oakland, and Berkeley, city-level everywhere else. Numbers span from $50,129 near Downtown Berkeley to a Census-capped $250,001 in Orinda. vividmaps.com/bay-area-rap... #sanfrancisco

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tea versus coffee preference by country, mapped. 2010 versus 2023, FAOSTAT data. Sri Lanka's tea supply outweighs coffee by about 225 times per person. More than half the world leans coffee instead. vividmaps.com/tea-vs-coffe... #coffee #tea

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The 35 Best Map-Based Strategy Board Games vividmaps.com/map-based-bo... #boardgames

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

CDC mortality data shows January is the deadliest month in 39 of the 50 U.S. states. The other 11 split between February, March, and one lone December state, Alaska. vividmaps.com/most-deadly-... #unitedstates

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Metropolitan France density averages 123/km² (318/sq mi). The regional range stretches from 41 (106/sq mi) in Corsica to over 1,000 (2,687/sq mi) in Île-de-France, a 25x difference. vividmaps.com/population-d... #France

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Coffee consumption worldwide, mapped. 175 countries, 2010 versus 2023, FAOSTAT food balance data. The US remains the largest market by volume. China grew faster than any other major country. Laos leads on a per person basis at 22.59 kg (49.8 lbs) per year. vividmaps.com/coffee-consu... #coffee

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Best Editions of the Monopoly Board Game vividmaps.com/monopoly/ #monopoly

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Mapped government expenditure as % of GDP across 151 countries using IMF data. Kiribati tops the list at 98% (aid-driven), several European welfare states cluster close behind (policy-driven), and Ukraine lands third due to wartime spending vividmaps.com/biggest-gove... #government

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Tea and mate consumption worldwide. China supplies close to half of global volume. Sri Lanka leads per capita at 51.69 kg (114.0 lbs) per person. Vietnam's per capita figure grew from 0.72 to 10.41 kg. vividmaps.com/tea-consumpt... #tea

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

U.S. total fertility rate, 2007 to 2025: from 2.12 down to 1.58, a 25.5% decline. South Dakota (2.05) is the last state above replacement. DC at 1.07. Vermont and Rhode Island at 1.30. Nevada's drop: 40.1% over 18 years. vividmaps.com/united-state... #unitedstates #fertilty #fertilityrate

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

North Rhine-Westphalia holds over a fifth of Germany's population inside a fraction of its land area. vividmaps.com/germany-popu... #germany

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Black Protestant concentrations by U.S. county, using ARDA's 2020 Religion Census. Nevada County, Arkansas at 34.62%. Adams County, Mississippi at 33.98%. New Hampshire's leading county at 0.08%. vividmaps.com/black-protes... #unitedstates

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Minimum Marriage Age by U.S. State, Mapped vividmaps.com/marriage-age... #marriage

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Eastern Europe isn't as easy to define as many people think. These maps by The European Correspondent compare multiple classifications based on geography, language, time zones and more. vividmaps.com/where-is-eas... #europe #easterteurope

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

27 states plus Washington DC require both a front and rear license plate. The other 23 only require one, mounted on the back. Utah dropped its front plate rule in January 2025, the third state to do it in five years. vividmaps.com/which-us-sta... #unitedstates #cars

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Top 10 Most Popular Board Games in 2026 According to Amazon vividmaps.com/board-games/ #boardgames

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Five world maps of gambling legality — all 195 countries. Read more: vividmaps.com/gambling-laws/ Data: slotegrator.pro/gambling-reg... casino.select

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Most countries write their official language in someone else's alphabet. Only ~44 of 195 have a natively developed script. vividmaps.com/countries-of... #languages

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Mapped the Jewish population decline across 15 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, 1948 to today. Iraq alone went from 140,000 people to 4. vividmaps.com/persecutions... #jews

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Roughly one million species face extinction right now. Most of what remains is concentrated in a small set of regions covering just 2.5% of Earth's land, places Conservation International calls biodiversity hotspots. vividmaps.com/biodiversity... #biodiversity

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A map of the Fertile Crescent around 7500 BCE marks 18 of the earliest known farming villages. Only Jericho is still inhabited. vividmaps.com/fertile-cres... #fertilecrescent

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Indonesia has more Muslims than any country on Earth and was never conquered by a caliphate. The Arabian Peninsula has had unbroken Muslim rule since the 600s, past 1,300 years. vividmaps.com/areas-ruled-... #islam #muslims

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Big Island of Hawaii has 10 Köppen climate zones in 4,028 sq mi (10,430 km²). Hilo: 130 in (3,302 mm) rain/year. Kohala coast: under 10 in (254 mm). Mauna Kea: 12°F (-11°C) record low. vividmaps.com/hawaii-islan... #hawaii

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

At 10,931 square miles, Hawaii ranks 47th among US states by land area. California is 15x bigger. Alaska is 60x bigger. France is 22x. vividmaps.com/how-big-is-h... #hawaii

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Antarctica at 14.2 million km² (5.5M mi²) is larger than Europe, larger than Canada, nearly double Australia. vividmaps.com/antarctica-s... #antarctic

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Native range of palms, mapped. Out of about 2,600 species, Indo-Malaya holds nearly 900, the Neotropics around 740, and Europe just two, Chamaerops humilis and the rare Cretan date palm Phoenix theophrasti. vividmaps.com/native-range... #palms

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Taiwan's ethnic map: 1680 vs 2017. Indigenous Formosan peoples once held most of the island. By 2017, Han Chinese settlers and their descendants accounted for 95.4% of the population, with officially recognized indigenous groups down to 2.4%. vividmaps.com/taiwan-popul... #taiwan

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

2024 was the hottest year on record. ENSO and human-driven warming both played a role. Now El Niño is returning. WMO is forecasting an 80% probability for this summer, and above-normal temperatures nearly everywhere. vividmaps.com/how-el-nino-...

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This map overlays 16 different definitions of Central Europe. vividmaps.com/central-euro... #centraleurope

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Central Paris holds 21,000 people per square kilometre. Finnish Lapland holds 2. Europe's population collects in the northwest and along the Rhine, with solid contributions from Spain and Poland. vividmaps.com/europe-most-...

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Three ethnic groups, over two billion people total. Han Chinese at 1.4B, Arabs at ~420M, Bengalis at ~300M. vividmaps.com/three-larges...

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Researchers found a specific income where happiness stops rising with earnings. $163,579/year in Iceland. $134,827 in the U.S. $10,176 in Ethiopia. vividmaps.com/price-of-hap...

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Mapped Arctic population density. Murmansk 270,000 residents north of the Arctic Circle. Canada's Nunavut barely populated despite being huge. Russia built permanent cities. Canada didn't. vividmaps.com/arctic-popul... #arctic

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The GEUS geological map of Greenland. 25 critical raw materials. Kvanefjeld with 11 million metric tons of rare earth oxides, blocked by a uranium mining ban. Tanbreez with 27%+ heavy REEs, production targeted 2028. vividmaps.com/what-lies-un... #greenland

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

37% of US adults have a college degree. Among immigrants, it ranges from 82% (India) to 9% (El Salvador), depending on country of birth. Most of that gap traces back to immigration law. vividmaps.com/percentage-i... #unitedstates #immigrants #immigration #usa

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Tokyo's morning paper, November 3, 1921: includes a large bird's-eye view of the entire Japanese Empire, including Korea, Taiwan, Sakhalin. Nine days later - Washington Naval Conference, Japan recognized as a world power. vividmaps.com/map-of-japan... #japan

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The EU's 2004 enlargement added 10 countries in a single day, the largest expansion in EU history. Czech Republic GDP per capita: 45% of EU average in 2004, 74% by 2024. Lithuania: 26% to 68%. vividmaps.com/european-uni... #europeanunion #eu

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Vivid Maps @vividmaps.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Black Protestant America vividmaps.com/black-protes... #unitedstates

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