The Top Export of Every Country in the World
More countries have crude petroleum or refined petroleum products as their largest export than any other category
Map of the Day: the History of China Every Year
The history of China is one of numerous competing states and changing borders
Map of the Day: Every Shipwreck from World War II
The North Atlantic is a ship graveyard
Map of the Day: Visualizing the Growing Inequality in the EU
The EU is comprised of an increasingly small collection of increasing productive areas surrounded by growing areas of lower than average productivity
Map of the Day: the History of North America
It is easy to forget just how dynamic the geographic history of North America is
Map of the Day: Every Nuclear Explosion in History
The location of every known nuclear bomb explosion in history from the first nuclear explosion, the Trinity test in 1945, until 2015
Map of the Day: the History of South America
From 900 BC until today
Map of the Day: Everyone Who Has Immigrated to the US Since 1820
From 1820 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the US. Visualize all of them based on their prior country of residence
Image of the Day: Tomb of Ramses VI
Explore it in 3D
Map of the Day: Communism Every Year Since 1850
In today’s post Soviet world, it is easy to forget just how ominous the specter of communism was in the late 1970s and 80s