Thread by @TrungTPhan

Found an insane collection of maps from Reddit.

The best ones 🧵

1/ Each section of this map contains 10% of the world's population.

2/ The nearest country to every part of the United States.

3/ The longest possible train ride in the world:

"I need you to book me a train from Portugal to Vietnam, but make sure it goes **around** Mongolia."

(travel time = 11,000 miles, 275 hours)

4/ A 2015 proposal from the head of Russia Railways for a superhighway from London to New York (dubbed the "Trans-Eurasian Belt Development").

Would have been ~12,000 miles.

5/ The largest volcano in our solar system is on Mars (Olympus Mons).

Here it is in comparison to the state of Arizona.

6/ What rock bands mean they say they're going on a "World Tour" 😂

7/ Passenger railway network density on different continents.

8/ The longest border France has with any country is ... Brazil (because of its South America territory, French Guiana).

Per Wiki: " French Guiana is the only territory of the mainland Americas to have full integration in a European country."

9/ The United States of America, from Alaska's perspective:

10/ "The earth being centered on Great Britain is arbitrary, so here's a map centered on New Zealand"

11/ "All the nations that have to be combined to be equal to Brazils annual homicides" (2015)

12/ These two areas of Africa have the same population.

13/ The map that Columbus used superimposed with North America (which Europe had no idea existed):

14/ James Cooks' late-1700s maps of Northeast America and Australia were so good, they were used well into the 20th century:

Australia Northeast USA

15/ A map to scale. The actual size of countries and continents (dark blue) vs. popular Western perception (light blue):

16/ Satellite map of Vatican City

17/ Here are a bunch of images of maps made from food:

-- Africa from orange peels
-- World from chicken nuggets
-- World from Nando's sauce (LOL!)

18/ Brazil's northernmost point is closer to every country in the Americas than its sourthernmost point

19/ Virginia's claim on North America through the years ... hahhahhahahaha

20/ I got way more but gonna stop here for now.

Smash that FOLLOW if you want to see someone that spends waaaayyyy too much time on Reddit (and the internet in general).

Source: reddit.com/r/MapPorn

21/ Gotta include this one: "A map of every location Johnny Cash claims he has been in 'I've Been Everywhere'"

22/ How far you can get in 90 minutes of public transportation in: (scaled)

SF London

23/ Each of these **green** US census blocks has NO ONE living in them:

24/ There's more people living in this circle than outside of it.

(h/t @jabuppartyon )

"Cha" and "te" are both Chinese words for tea.

If your geography came into contact with tea by:

-- The Silk road, its called cha
-- by shipping routes (starting with Dutch traders), its called tea

26/ Global shipping routes visualized

27/ Poland fits into Texas...

28/ Japan superimposed next to the East Coast US (it's pretty big, actually)

29/ What is the roundest country? (It's Sierra Leone LOL)