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Xavi Ruiz
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International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Nov 17
140 years ago this week, a group of European leaders and diplomats met in Berlin to carve up Africa in service of their imperial interests.

Maps show Africa just before the Berlin Conference and the way it looked after colonization.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · 18d
Cut off from the sea: 49 landlocked countries.

2 trapped twice: Uzbekistan🇺🇿 and Liechtenstein🇱🇮
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · 19d
Non of the countries Poland border in 1989 exist today.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Aug 27
Much of Latin America is marked by former leaders in jail, under house arrest or living in exile to avoid detention.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Aug 23
Words can be powerful… and sometimes ironic.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Aug 15
European countries where August 15 is a public holiday.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Aug 11
Japanese pictorial map of the Middle East (1942).
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Aug 9
Chile is so long that it could serve as a bridge between Canada and Spain across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Aug 8
The World Map From a Different Angle.

Happy #InternationalCatDay!!😸
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Aug 6
80 years ago today, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, another hit Nagasaki.

Over 200,000 people died and many others were injured.

These bombings led to Japan’s surrender on August 15, effectively ending WWII.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Aug 4
Map shows which country is closest depending on where you are in the United States.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Aug 1
The largest national park in the European Union is in Sourh America.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 29
Map shows whether each country has more immigrants or emigrants.

Some countries may surprise you.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 28
#OnThisDay in 1914, the world changed forever.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo set off a chain reaction that led to one of the deadliest conflicts in human history: World War I.

This map shows the global alliances that shaped the war.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 27
After Trump’s deal with the EU, tariffs drop to 15%.

But many countries are still hit hard by U.S. new trade policy.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 26
This map shows how unevenly Nobel Prizes have been distributed across the world.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 23
The U.S. divided into 3 equally populated regions.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 21
Map shows % of Romani people in the Balkan countries.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 19
Support for Ukraine🇺🇦 remains high in much of Europe—but not everywhere.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 19
Anime isn’t just a Japanese phenomenon anymore.

From the U.S. to China, anime’s popularity has gone global—check how your country ranks!
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 16
The map where fueling your car is still someone else’s job.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 16
These countries have no UNESCO sites yet:
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 15
Europe’s languages are diverse, fascinating and sometimes delightfully frustrating!
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 9
Constitutional gun rights: rare yesterday, even rarer today.
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 8
Today, is the day! ☀️
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social · Jul 6
The world split in two: coffee or tea?
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