Civixplorer

The topography of East and Southeast Asia.

The largest ethnic groups in East Asia.

It highlights high-value areas, such as major urban centers in the Northeast, California, and the Midwest's fertile agricultural zones, where land prices can exceed $500,000 per hectare. In contrast, remote and arid regions in the Southwest and Western plateaus show significantly lower values, often under $5,000 per hectare. The map illustrates how factors like population density, economic activity, and local policies shape land values, while public lands and Native American reservations are excluded from the private market valuation.

🏘️ The most and least expensive land in the contiguous United States.

Standard paper sizes in the world.

🟡 A4
🔵 US Letter

⚖️ The most democratic countries, according to The Economist.

🎗️ The most commonly diagnosed types of cancer.

🔎 Arciom Antanovič

🚗 Comparing the changing landscape of global car sales.

Coined in 1989 by geographer Roger Brunet, it highlights Europe's primary hub of industry, finance, and innovation, centered on cities like London, Frankfurt, and Milan. The Blue Banana represents a historical network of trade, industry, and post-WWII integration, though recent shifts in industrial power to Eastern Europe reflect broader economic changes.

🍌 The Blue Banana: Europe’s most densely populated corridor with around 111 million people.

🇧🇪 Belgium, a linguistically divided country.

🔎 geo.universe

The farthest point on Earth from any ocean.

📍 Xinjiang, China 🇨🇳

The shortest driving route through all 48 contiguous U.S. states.

It takes 113 hours, almost 5 days.

The 144 most populous counties in the United States account for half of the country’s population.

⛵️ The Columbian exchange reshaped global diets and economies, and also triggered disease, especially in the Americas.

🔎 Encyclopædia Britannica

🛣️ How highways are made.

🇮🇹 Italy as seen from the International Space Station.

💸 The $150 trillion global debt market.

🔎 Visual Capitalist

Most cities over 100,000 clustered in Asia and the Middle East (Qing China, Mughal India, Safavid/Ottoman realms); Europe had a few growing hubs and Africa only Cairo, while the Americas had none that large. This reflects a pre-industrial world where urban size depended on river-fed agriculture, trade networks, and imperial capitals—patterns later reshaped by industrialization and colonialism.

Cities with over 100,000 people in the year 1700.

The first head belongs to the statue known as The Dying Gaul (⬅️), a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic original created in Pergamon during the late 3rd century BC. It depicts a fallen Gallic warrior with striking realism and pathos, meant to honor both the victor and the defeated. The Msecké Zehrovice Head (➡️) is a carved Celtic stone idol from Bohemia, dating to around 150-50 BC. Unlike the naturalistic Hellenistic style, this head is highly abstract, with sharply incised lines to indicate features such as the mustache, circular eyes, and stylized hair, suggesting a symbolic or ritual function rather than a lifelike portrait.

Celtic man made by a Roman sculptor (⬅️) and by a Celtic sculptor (➡️)

This image compares the fictional Neo-Tokyo from the 1988 anime Akira with real-life Tokyo in 2019, highlighting stark contrasts in urban development. Neo-Tokyo, set on artificial islands in Tokyo Bay, reflects the anime's dystopian vision of a rebuilt city after an apocalyptic event. The real Tokyo, by contrast, shows limited land reclamation, with areas like Odaiba developed for entertainment and commerce. The comparison underscores the anime’s prediction of rapid urbanization during Japan’s 1980s economic boom, contrasted with Tokyo’s more measured, real-world growth.

🏍️ Neo-Tokyo's artificial islands in Akira compared to the real-life Tokyo Bay, both in 2019.

💸 The universities producing the most billionaires.

🔎 Visual Capitalist

This bird's-eye lithograph offers a detailed aerial view of Manhattan just after the Civil War, capturing New York’s emergence as a bustling economic hub. The illustration emphasizes the city's busy port, its expanding grid system, and the newly established Central Park, while contrasting the dense southern tip with the orderly northern expansion. The image reflects New York's growth during the post-war period, foreshadowing its rise in the Gilded Age, though it overlooks the struggles of the working class and immigrants.

Bird's-eye view of New York, by John Bachmann (1865)

How major male sports divide the United States.

⛪️ Countries with the largest number of Christians.

🚆 Countries with the most high-speed rail as of 2025.

🔎 Visual Capitalist

📝 Note: The Nazi German Flag has been slightly modified to comply the Community Guidelines of Instagram and other platforms, where it was originally published.

Black, red and white flags around world — your favorite?

Roads of the Roman Empire.

🔎 researchremora

Born from opportunistic conquests and feudal lordship, these polities ruled over majority non-Frankish populations, depended on fortified ports, mercenaries and military orders (Templars, Hospitallers), and survived by fragile alliances with—and rivalries among—larger neighbors (Byzantines, Seljuks, Fatimids). Their narrow, exposed borders (especially isolated Edessa) made them strategically precarious and set the stage for later Muslim reconquests and the Second Crusade.

Map of the four Catholic crusader states in 1135.

Himalayas seen from Jainagar, India — clearly visible from 150 km away.

📲 The most popular cell phone brands in the world.

🛢️ U.S. oil production by state.

🔎 Elements