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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 15d

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This WWI Allied propaganda map (1916) imagines a U.S. conquered by the victorious Central Powers.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2h

🛢️ Countries with the largest proven oil reserves.

Vast oil reserves don’t always lead to prosperity — factors like oil type, infrastructure, and politics matter.

Despite 🇻🇪 Venezuela's massive reserves, located in the challenging Orinoco Belt, the country has difficulties extracting its extra-heavy crude oil, investment is insufficient, and there is political instability, preventing it from capitalizing on its natural wealth. Meanwhile, countries like 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 🇦🇪 UAE benefit from abundant, light, sweet crude that is easier and cheaper to extract, contributing to their economic stability and geopolitical influence.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 4h

Land cover of Ukraine 🇺🇦

🔎 Milos Popovic

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💶 Evolution of the Eurozone.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 9h

🇵🇱 Poland at its greatest extent compared to its current borders.

At its 17th-century zenith (around 1619–1620), the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth stretched from the Baltic coast (including today’s Lithuania and Latvia) south to the Black Sea shores and east into what is now Belarus, Ukraine and parts of western Russia. In contrast, modern Poland is a more compact state between Germany and Ukraine/Belarus, having lost those vast eastern lands after World War II but gained former German territories to the west.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 12h

✍️ Know your cyrillic alphabet — other than Russian.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 15h

The topography of East and Southeast Asia.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 18h

The largest ethnic groups in East Asia.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 21h

🏘️ The most and least expensive land in the contiguous United States.

It highlights high-value areas, such as major urban centers in the Northeast, California, and the Midwest's fertile agricultural zones, where land prices can exceed $500,000 per hectare. In contrast, remote and arid regions in the Southwest and Western plateaus show significantly lower values, often under $5,000 per hectare.

The map illustrates how factors like population density, economic activity, and local policies shape land values, while public lands and Native American reservations are excluded from the private market valuation.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

Standard paper sizes in the world.

🟡 A4
🔵 US Letter

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

⚖️ The most democratic countries, according to The Economist.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

🎗️ The most commonly diagnosed types of cancer.

🔎 Arciom Antanovič

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

🚗 Comparing the changing landscape of global car sales.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

🍌 The Blue Banana: Europe’s most densely populated corridor with around 111 million people.

Coined in 1989 by geographer Roger Brunet, it highlights Europe's primary hub of industry, finance, and innovation, centered on cities like London, Frankfurt, and Milan. The Blue Banana represents a historical network of trade, industry, and post-WWII integration, though recent shifts in industrial power to Eastern Europe reflect broader economic changes.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

🇧🇪 Belgium, a linguistically divided country.

🔎 geo.universe

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

The farthest point on Earth from any ocean.

📍 Xinjiang, China 🇨🇳

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

The shortest driving route through all 48 contiguous U.S. states.

It takes 113 hours, almost 5 days.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

The 144 most populous counties in the United States account for half of the country’s population.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

⛵️ The Columbian exchange reshaped global diets and economies, and also triggered disease, especially in the Americas.

🔎 Encyclopædia Britannica

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

🛣️ How highways are made.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

🇮🇹 Italy as seen from the International Space Station.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

💸 The $150 trillion global debt market.

🔎 Visual Capitalist

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

Cities with over 100,000 people in the year 1700.

Most cities over 100,000 clustered in Asia and the Middle East (Qing China, Mughal India, Safavid/Ottoman realms); Europe had a few growing hubs and Africa only Cairo, while the Americas had none that large.

This reflects a pre-industrial world where urban size depended on river-fed agriculture, trade networks, and imperial capitals—patterns later reshaped by industrialization and colonialism.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

Celtic man made by a Roman sculptor (⬅️) and by a Celtic sculptor (➡️)

The first head belongs to the statue known as The Dying Gaul (⬅️), a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic original created in Pergamon during the late 3rd century BC. It depicts a fallen Gallic warrior with striking realism and pathos, meant to honor both the victor and the defeated.

The Msecké Zehrovice Head (➡️) is a carved Celtic stone idol from Bohemia, dating to around 150-50 BC. Unlike the naturalistic Hellenistic style, this head is highly abstract, with sharply incised lines to indicate features such as the mustache, circular eyes, and stylized hair, suggesting a symbolic or ritual function rather than a lifelike portrait.