The actual size of Hawaii when compared to the rest of the United States

The largest national park in the European Union is in South America.

The languages of Europe, mapped.

This map illustrates migration patterns from the British Isles to North America during the early colonial era (1610s–1790s). Each arrow represents a major stream of settlers whose regional origins in Britain helped shape distinct cultures in the emerging colonies. The idea comes

Migration routes from the British Isles to early colonial America, 1610s–1790s.

The Columbus Map, capturing the last version of a world without America, c.1490.

Within this 3 km radius in Surat, India, 4.1 million people live at a density of 145,000 per km²

The natural range of big cats around the world

On most maps, Hawaii appears as a tiny cluster off the coast of California, but that is a cartographic choice, not reality. At its true scale, the Hawaiian archipelago stretches across about 1,500 miles of the Pacific Ocean, roughly the same distance as from Texas to California.

Map showing Maré and Futuna, France’s easternmost and westernmost points

Map showing traffic accidents in the U.S. from 2016 to 2019

The Most and Least Expensive Land in America Average market value of private land across the contiguous US. Estimated from over 6m land sales (2000–2019) Source: Nolte, C. (2020). High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States.

Comparing the latitudes of major world cities with Europe

The literal meanings of South American country names

Every territory the United States has claimed throughout its history

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Physics has honored the scientists behind some of humanity’s biggest breakthroughs, from relativity and quantum mechanics to lasers and black holes. Yet when you look at where those physicists were born, the pattern reveals how science has shifted

The birthplaces of Nobel Prize winners in Physics

A 1920s map showing the vegetation of Australia

Cities with over 100,000 people in the year 1700

How deep are the Great Lakes?