Maps

Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.

Tonga shockwave around the world

Earlier this year, an underwater volcano erupted in the island nation of Tonga.…

When people eat dinner in Europe

This map by @loverofgeography shows the usual dinner times for countries in Europe.…

Ukraine’s defense in Kyiv

The New York Times shows how Russia has tried to take over and…

Pollution by the rich versus poor

Based on estimates from the World Inequality Lab, Bloomberg shows how wealthier individuals’…

Days since record-high temperatures

Here’s a fun/alarming weather map from The Pudding. Using data from the Applied…

Sunrise times with permanent Day Light Saving

Changing the clocks twice a year can be a hassle, so some people…

Abortion restrictions in the U.S. mapped

For FiveThirtyEight, Anna Wiederkehr and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, with illustrations by Nicole Rifkin, delve…

Scale of Ukrainian cities

When you look inside the cities around the world, you will often find…

Empty Ukrainian airspace

As you would imagine, Ukrainian airspace looks empty right now. Reuters mapped flights…

Investors bought up a lot of houses in 2021

Home prices in the U.S. increased dramatically over the past couple of years.…

Rerouted flights to avoid Russian airspace

Many countries have banned Russian aircraft from entering their airspace. Russian in turn…

Many Ukraine maps

There are many maps trying to show what is happening in Ukraine right…

Map of invasion in Ukraine

This map by Henry Foy and Steven Bernard for Financial Times shows a…

Map of Russian gas exports

Speaking of Russian gas, Josh Holder, Karl Russell and Stanley Reed for The…

Past redlining still seen in the present

In the 1930s, a group called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation went to…

Scale of the Tonga eruption

Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr used satellite imagery to show the scale of…

Global ripple effect from underwater volcano

An underwater volcano erupted about 40 miles off the coast of the main…

All-time temperature records broken in 2021

Using data from NOAA, Krishna Karra and Tim Wallace for The New York…