Tuesday, March 4, 2014

40 Maps They Didn’t Teach You In School

6:33 PM

By the time we graduate high school, we learn that they never taught us the most interesting things in there. Sure, you might be able to name the European countries or point New York on the map, but does that give a you real understanding of how the world functions? To fill this gap, we have gathered a great and informative selection of infographical maps that they should’ve shown us at school: every single one of these maps reveals different fun and interesting facts, which can actually help you draw some pretty interesting conclusions.

What makes infographical maps so engaging is how easy it becomes to conceive graphically presented information. The best part, there are brilliant services like Target Map that “allow everyone (from individuals to large organizations) to represent their data on maps of any country in the world and to share their knowledge with the whole Internet Community.” Just choose a country and a way to create your map by color, type values or by uploading your excel files (you can even use your zip / postal code column to get the best and most accurate maps.

Without further ado, we invite you to learn things like most popular sports in different countries, who has the largest breasts, red hair map of Europe, world’s most consumed alcoholic beverages, or which brands dominate in different states of the USA.

Trust us, these are way better than the ones they taught you at school!



The Most Famous Brand From Each State In The US
Image Credits: mapsontheweb.tumblr.com

Red Hair Map of Europe
Image Credits: imgur.com

Most Popular Sports in the World
Image Credits: imgur.com

Breast Sizes Relating to Countries
Image Credits: targetmap.com

Political World Map as Pangea 200-300 Million Years Ago
Image Credits: imgur.com

The World According to Americans






Image Credits: alphadesigner.com

Most Used Web Browser World Map

Map of Countries Officially Not Using the Metric System
Image Credits: wikimedia.org

The Penis Size Worldwide
Image Credits: everyoneweb.com

Map of the Most Common Surnames in Europe
Image Credits: imgur.com

Map of Countries Most and Least Welcoming to Foreigners
Image Credits: imgur.com

World Map of National IQ Scores
Image Credits: targetmap.com

Beer Names in Different European Languages
Image Credits: imgur.com

Freedom of Press
Image Credits: imgur.com

Most Consumed Alcoholic Beverage by Country
Image Credits: chartsbin.com

A World Map that Inverts Land and Sea
Image Credits: imgur.com

Worldwide Driving Orientation
Image Credits: chartsbin.com

Prevalence of Obesity
Image Credits: hsph.harvard.edu

Map Of Most Attractive Citizens in Europe
Image Credits: imgur.com

European Citizens Who Drink the Most
Image Credits: imgur.com

United States According to Autocomplete
Image Credits: flipcollective.com

Every Country England Has Ever Invaded (all but 22 countries in the world)
Image Credits: telegraph.co.uk

7 Deadly Sins Map
Image Credits: wired.com

World Map of Social Networks 2009 vs 2012
Image Credits: visual.ly

Total Fertility Rate Map
Image Credits: en.wikipedia.org

Map of the World in Proportion to Population
Image Credits: imgur.com

Different Alphabets Around the World
Image Credits: globa-lingua.org

World’s Population Concentrated in One City
Image Credits: persquaremile.com

Countries with McDonald’s
Image Credits: imgur.com

Map of the Most Popular Surnames in the United States
Image Credits: nationalgeographic.com

Lightning Intensity Map
Image Credits: imgur.com

Map of the Earth With Mercator Projection Using a Different Centerpoint
Image Credits: imgur.com

Time Zones in Antarctica
Image Credits: wikipedia.org

If US Cities Had Kept Their Original Names
Image Credits: crasstalk.com


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