17 Maps to Change Your Perception of Some Things Forever

    17 Maps to Change Your Perception of Some Things Forever
    Greg

    12:28 PM EST, February 10, 2022

    Maps are perfect tools if we want to compare some areas in certain aspects. The maps shown below not only will surprise you, but they are also really likely to change the way you view some things.

    Take a look at a bunch of really unusual maps.

    #1 The second largest country in Europe is... Denmark because its territory includes Greenland. If you compare its size to the size of the entire continent, this is what it looks like

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    Brex_667/reddit

    #2 Places in the world where UFOs have been reported to be spotted within the last 115 years

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    Sketchder/reddit

    #3 The biggest American fast-food chains

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    PepperBlues/reddit

    #4 Cities that citizens of a given country are most ashamed of

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    atlasova/reddit

    #5 This is what Europe would look like if sea levels went up by 100 meters

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    oneletterh/reddit

    #6 And this is what the world would look like if the levels were a kilometer higher

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    burgerking_foot/reddit

    #7 The number of suicides per 100,000 citizens

    Obraz

    #8 That would be the longest train journey just in case someone was thinking of attempting it

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    gutturalEland9936/reddit

    #9 European countries where the temperature was never higher than 35 degrees C

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    jack_urian/reddit

    #10 The European varieties of the name 'Paul'.

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    PaulOshanter/reddit

    #11 Countries where butter are more popular and those where it is olive oil that rules

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    Landgeist/reddit

    #12 The percentage of people aged 25 – 34 still living with their parents

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    silviucodreanu/reddit

    #13 The number of prisoners per 100,000 people

    Obraz

    #14 Countries where the phrase 'sun tanning' is googled more frequently that 'skin whitening'

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    sam_3758/reddit

    #15 Countries where it is against the law to smack or spank children

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    atlasmapper/reddit

    #16 The percentage of obese people in a given country

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    BlejiSee/reddit
    Which map surprised you the most?
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