Maps

Germany is an unusual country, not only because of its renowned engineering and a large variety of beer but also because of its name. Most (...)

Onomastics is a fascinating area of linguistics concerned with the study of the history and origin of proper names. Today’s map lies on (...)

It is becoming more and more clear that GDP (gross domestic product) alone is not a good indicator of a country’s performance. For (...)

Migration is a common phenomenon in Europe. The growth in the number of migrants has been even more pronounced after the formation of the (...)

Each country name has a distinct adjectival form in English, which is used when speaking about something related to the country, e.g. (...)

I have been getting a lot of comments and emails lately about “errors” in my maps, all about one particular part of the map. Whenever (...)

The following two maps show how much European countries spent on their military in 2015, per capita and as a percentage of GDP. The maps (...)

Wine is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages in Europe, with the French alone consuming about the same amount of wine as the whole (...)

Each country’s government determines the dates and duration of school holidays—and these are completely independent of school holidays (...)

One of my readers asked me to create a map showing the “density” of metal bands in European countries—and so I did. The following map (...)