This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and 1930s: the “outline,” in which large subjects (the history of the world! every school of ...

which show the world’s population distributed by longitude and latitude. (Apparently, it’s been kicking around the Internets for a while, but was new to me.) A couple of striking things ...

These seven maps and charts ... languages in the world, 2,000 have fewer than 1,000 native speakers. Hence, according to UNESCO estimates, which we visualized in the map above, about half of ...

They're really just lines on the map ... world. The graphic shows who has a border beef with whom, and also which regions are the most in dispute. One of the most jarring things about this chart ...

This chart from the 1800s puts the world’s biggest mountains and rivers in order. But it kinda omits some stuff. For the design-minded, is there anything as satisfying as taking an unordered ...