From Aldi to Weisswurst.

Beating the bounds of the city.

Campione d’Italia, Büsingen am Hochrhein and their lesser-known cantonal equivalents.

Did you know that almost 90% of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere?

US (lower 48) only, but a lovely piece of work.

Not many people, I suspect.

Excellent summary of the few facts known about the separatist movement.

xkcd on depth.

Scandinavia, obviously; but some surprising outposts elsewhere.

Amazing.

Nicosia, Jerusalem, Mitrovica...

The one part of Africa that no state claims as part of its territory.

#fb So, so true...

France as seen by various insider and outsiders.

"shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red. White dots indicate places where many people live and many IP addresses are available."

June 13th, 1990, was a historic day for weather forecasting in Germany. For the very first time, the weather map on the Tagesschau showed the newly reunited country’s international borders.

Fascinating - Belgium and Switzerland invisible, Thailand way more prominent than its neighbours.

Interesting survey of knowledge production, though I would have some queries about the frame.

Brooks, runs, branches, rios, etc - fascinating.

Brilliant on-line atlas of the history of war.

Looking into alignments.

For the two of you who are interested and haven't seen this yet!

Westeros v Europe (for George R.R. Martin fans)

density of twitter updates across New Yorkm London, Paris and Munich