Newsweek has created a map showing the world's most hated countries and the United States comes in second in 2025.. The map is based on the World Population Review's research for this year "by ...

Colton's 1852 map of the world uses the Mercator projection, cutting off the highly distorted poles. Printed for J & H Miller, Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Wikimedia Commons ...

That's how we felt when we saw the awesome map made by Reddit user TeaDranks.The map resizes countries based on their population. It's simple: Each square represents 500,000 people.

The most common world map (the one you probably have on your wall) is called the Mercator map, named after Flemish cartographer Geradus Mercator. It was designed in 1569 for aiding marine navigation.

Here's a map and chart that shows the power of every passport in the world. ... you have a great deal of traveling power — Danes can fly to 157 countries without ever showing a visa.

Fig 1. World map showing the distribution of study countries and study participants. Note: Shade of green represents the number of participants per country.

This discrepancy between the map size of a country and the real size of a country happens because we try to project our world which is shaped like a sphere (which is 3D, you know) onto a 2D map.