This makes me happy! Let's hope it is diverse plantation though, and not monoculture production forest.

This is beautiful. A globe makes a great feature in any house, and you will refer to it more than you think. But this one is gorgeous.

Hey Flatearthers, please explain this!

maybe this would have been a better idea

It's great something good came of the Iron Curtain.

I can't even begin to understand how this was possible to create in the 16th century!

Finland built a lighthouse, not realising it was on the Swedish side. This new border was drawn up to allow the lighthouse to be Finnish, and the amount of land held be each country to remain the same.

This just made me put on the Dropkick Murphys.

A small selection of…..

Android is the way forward. Apple tried to make a monopoly and failed due to greed.

Isn't that mindblowing? How much fuel is being burned at any given moment?

Something about hitting enormous mountains and then a 4000 m high plateau tends to change the local climate a wee bit

This is not far off the voting map for the 2020 election.

It's nice to see New Zealand on a map at last. But what is "Australia " doing there? Everyone knows it's not real.

From top left: Canada, UK, Germany, Japan - South Africa, Philippines, [Edit: Australia], New Zealand. I too had my doubts, e.g. Berlin and Munich (in Germany) should be dots, however, these are huge cities in areas of otherwise very low population, so depending how this was calculated, could be still correct.

I think the one of South Africa is wrong. While Gauteng is very densely populated, as is Kwa-Zulu Natal we have a major city in the Western Cape that should also be in blue, especially given how many people are moving to Cape Town recently.

I'm not surprised with the English one, I've barely met anyone who lives up that north

Japan at least has the excuse that much of their land is mountainous, and thus sparsely inhabited.

Yet the blue would die in 3-10 days without the gray.

We like to gather together

Damn, for such a densely populated country, Germany still manages to be green AF. Well done

That's mad! It's no wonder the politics of such small geographic areas seem to take over the country.

Makes sense. So much of Canada is forest. Plus Canada is massive

Dense areas!

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew… 🤘🏻😎

I'm shocked you can see England lol

Srsly. But wouldn't that make France Minas Tirith?

Pretty sure the US is actually in 1950

Yeah, um... update pending.

Our local government annoys me about this, beautiful wide road and they started to remove trees claiming they were damaged etc, didn't replace a single one, the houses etc are far away too from them

The only important map.

He later took over as Napoleon III, the one with the hat and the itchy chest was Napoleon I (1769 - 1821). Napoleon III achieved a lot of purposeful results for the better of the country, and didn't want to start a war but the general public wanted him to.

Should be illegal in every country.

Not one but two Australias! I wonder which one I'm living in? Or are there two of me? lol

I was surprised that no English city is on this map... thinking about Oxford and its university. But looking it up: Oxford University was founded in 1096.

War crime.

Nice to the see the UK at the bottom of a positive one for a change! I'd love to see a map like this for the last 5-6 decades and see if all countries have seen a decline and if any have seen an increase.

There is a reference to this on the info boards in Inverness City Centre.

Even some of the grey marked countries have a wineproduktion - it's just smaller than 2 million hectoliters per year ;-)

If we had a map of Canada it would just be white. Our public transport even in the major cities are c**p

What the heck

all those chocolate bandits in Belgium

Not nearly enough red on that map.

My favorite country

Compare the level of gun ownership in the Nordic countries with mass shootings. And then look the numbers for the USA.

Should be listed Busiest _Container_ Ports as they're listed by "twenty-foot equivalent unit" which begs to question, why the heck. By tonnage the list would be: Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Algeciras, Marseille, Valencia, Bergen, Trieste and LeHavre

What's the shortened name for someone from the UK?

...with diagnosed/documented depression. I'd bet the true numbers are much higher...probably double or higher. Depression is still widely seen as taboo to discuss