I’m somewhat surprised by the stark cross-border contrast between India and Pakistan. Anecdotally it’s very true, but I didn’t expect it to show up in the data like this. Also, going by personal experience, the numbers from Western Europe seem way too good to be true. Not knowledgeable enough about Colombia to make a comment.

As a Ukrainian living in Germany, can admit that most produce now is cheaper in Germany (visited and compared). People are really in the state of survival in Ukraine

Core territories and longstanding tributary states circled in red. Intermittent or disputed tributaries circled in purple.

In 1990 Ontario premier David Peterson of the liberal party called an early general election expecting to win big, however it would backfire tremendously and deliver the first ever NDP government (still only ever) in Ontario history. The NDP would go on to run a disastrous government and be reduced to third place in the next election, never to get government in Ontario again. Im posting this to follow the BC NDP calling an early election and being smacked by the BC conservatives. If you have any questions about this election feel free to ask.

Closest to the Welsh. Then English, Dutch, Germans, Danes... and finally the Irish, in 15th place.

"Lots of maps claim to show Africa’s urban/rural population breakdown. Most are flawed since each country defines “urban” in its own way. The best (not perfect) method is DEGURBA, a grid-based approach that divides territory into 3 categories, not 2: cities, towns and rural areas:"

https://x.com/_MustafaBadri/status/2115202358095602166

This map is an updated version of a map of a country that is or was a grand duchy, which I posted previously.

For reference, here are examples of each grand duchy.

Finland: Grand Duchy of Finland

Germany: Grand Duchy of Baden, Grand Duchy of Berg, Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, Grand Duchy of Fulda, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Grand Duchy of Posen and Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Italy: Grand Duchy of Tuscany and Grand Duchy of Savoy

Lithuania: Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Poland: Grand Duchy of Cracow

Romania: Grand Principality of Transylvania

Russia: Grand Duchy of Moscow, Grand Duchy of Ryazan, Grand Principality of Smolensk

Ukraine: Grand Duchy of Kiev or Kievan Rus

Source:

• 630k+ drawings of borders and coastlines, made from memory by players of Borderline, my border-drawing game (https://www.habibicode.org/borderline), September to October 2026.
• Drawings that scored under 10 or were scribbles are left out.
• Real borders: Natural Earth 1:10m and the game's maps.
• Official border lengths: CIA World Factbook.

Method: every few km along the real border, I take each drawing's nearest point, inside or outside the country. The median over a short stretch is where the crowd puts the line there. Move the real outline by those medians and you get the crowd's shape. Area is measured on an equal-area projection.

Tools: TypeScript and Node for the processing; sharp for the images and animations; Next.js, SVG and canvas for the site. No map library. Built with Claude Code.