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💶 Evolution of the Eurozone.

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🇵🇱 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 · 7h

✍️ Know your cyrillic alphabet — other than Russian.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 10h

The topography of East and Southeast Asia.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 13h

The largest ethnic groups in East Asia.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 16h

🏘️ 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.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 19h

Standard paper sizes in the world.

🟡 A4
🔵 US Letter

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 21h

⚖️ The most democratic countries, according to The Economist.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 22h

🎗️ The most commonly diagnosed types of cancer.

🔎 Arciom Antanovič

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

🚗 Comparing the changing landscape of global car sales.

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.

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 · 1d

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

🔎 Encyclopædia Britannica

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

🛣️ How highways are made.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 1d

🇮🇹 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.

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.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

🏍️ Neo-Tokyo's artificial islands in Akira compared to the real-life Tokyo Bay, both in 2019.

This image compares the fictional Neo-Tokyo from the 1988 anime Akira with real-life Tokyo in 2019, highlighting stark contrasts in urban development.

Neo-Tokyo, set on artificial islands in Tokyo Bay, reflects the anime's dystopian vision of a rebuilt city after an apocalyptic event. The real Tokyo, by contrast, shows limited land reclamation, with areas like Odaiba developed for entertainment and commerce.

The comparison underscores the anime’s prediction of rapid urbanization during Japan’s 1980s economic boom, contrasted with Tokyo’s more measured, real-world growth.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

💸 The universities producing the most billionaires.

🔎 Visual Capitalist

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

Bird's-eye view of New York, by John Bachmann (1865)

This bird's-eye lithograph offers a detailed aerial view of Manhattan just after the Civil War, capturing New York’s emergence as a bustling economic hub. The illustration emphasizes the city's busy port, its expanding grid system, and the newly established Central Park, while contrasting the dense southern tip with the orderly northern expansion. The image reflects New York's growth during the post-war period, foreshadowing its rise in the Gilded Age, though it overlooks the struggles of the working class and immigrants.

Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 2d

How major male sports divide the United States.