Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
Located in French Guiana it covers 33,900 square kilometres (13,090 sq mi) of land or 41% of land area of the territory.
This makes it the largest National Park not only in France (French Guiana is considered an overseas department of France and hence is also part of the EU), but the biggest in the entire European Union.
More about the park:
The map above shows how much of each European country is actually located in Europe.
For example Denmark is just 2% because of the size of Greenland. Similarly only 23% of Russia’s land is in Europe, despite the vast majority of each country’s population actually living in Europe.
Here is the ranked list from low to high:
All the maps on this page are the product of the wonderful GEO.Universe Instagram page, which you should totally follow.
Here are the 4 maps on their own:
The map above shows Ultra-processed food as a percentage of household purchases, from the journal Public Health Nutrition as reported in the Guardian in 2018..
Here are the full rankings:
The following 18 biodiversity maps all come biodiversitymapping.org, with the help of BirdLife International, IUCN, NatureServe, and USGS.
Enjoy:
The map above shows you can quite easily split the world into 50% of GDP and 50% of population without
any overlapping countries. Here’s a full list of countries from each group:
And, It should be noted that a CzechPOINT and checkpoint are two different things.
So what is CzechPOINT?
On January 14, 2026, the U.S. State Department, under President Donald Trump’s administration, announced it would indefinitely suspend processing of immigrant visas (permanent/residency visas) for citizens of 75 countries, effective January 21, 2026.
The map above shows which countries are affected. The Full list: