https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps One map, told well — every day. Real places, real numbers. en-us Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:27:02 GMT https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/041 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/041 Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT The U.S. tornado count has barely changed in 40 years. Where they land has moved east toward the Mississippi. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/040 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/040 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT One lake in Siberia holds more fresh water than all five Great Lakes combined. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/039 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/039 Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT Only 28.7% of the ocean floor has been mapped by sonar. Mars has a sharper global map. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/038 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/038 Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT One hotspot has built 125+ volcanoes in a 6,000 km line. Hawaiʻi is just the newest one. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/037 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/037 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT Africa's 8,000 km Great Green Wall was about 4% restored in its own zone by 2020. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/036 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/036 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT 1.61 million km² of Antarctica belongs to no country. It is the largest unclaimed land on Earth. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/035 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/035 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT Off Newfoundland, the Gulf Stream carries about 125 times the water of every river on Earth combined. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/034 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/034 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT The most lightning-struck place on Earth is one corner of a lake in Venezuela: 232.5 flashes per km² per year, storms ~297 nights a year. The map shows why it happens exactly there. #maps #lightning https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/033 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/033 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT The point on Earth farthest from its centre isn’t Everest. It’s Chimborazo in Ecuador: 6,384.4 km out, ~2.1 km beyond Everest’s summit, because the planet bulges at the equator. Today’s map sh https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/032 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/032 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT There's a point in the South Pacific 2,688 km from the nearest land in every direction. When the ISS passes overhead, its crew, 400 km up, are the nearest people. It's also where old spacecraft are su https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/031 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/031 Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT In 1960 the Aral Sea covered 68,000 km². By 2010 it had lost 91% of that — its rivers diverted to grow cotton. One map shows where the shore used to be, and the single dam that saved a corner of it https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/030 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/030 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Bali and Lombok are only ~35 km apart, but the animals on each side come from two different continents. A 250 m-deep strait held even when ice-age seas fell 120 m. Here's the map of the Wallace Line. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/029 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/029 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT The monsoon doesn't arrive in India all at once. It lands in Kerala on 1 June and needs 37 days to reach the last corner of the Thar. This year it's retreating 15% short. The map of the march: #maps # https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/028 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/028 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Permafrost isn't ice — it's any ground held below 0°C for two straight years. 13.9M km², 14.7% of Northern Hemisphere land. Buried in it: 1,400–1,600 Gt of carbon, nearly twice the atmosphere. A https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/027 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/027 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT In 1875 the Royal Navy's chief hydrographer deleted 123 islands from its Pacific chart in a single edition. Three of them were real. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/026 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/026 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Over 80% of world trade moves by sea — and nearly all of it squeezes through seven gaps. The busiest pinches to 2.7 km wide: 94,301 ships crossed Malacca & Singapore in 2024. Hormuz alone carries 20 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/025 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/025 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Take Antarctica's ice off and the map changes: 46.7% of the bed sits below sea level, and the trough under Denman Glacier hits −3,500 m — the deepest point on land anywhere on Earth. Six decades o https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/024 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/024 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Europe's rails sit 1,435 mm apart. The ex-Soviet world's sit 1,520 mm. That 85 mm gap is a hard border: all 19,392 China–Europe freight trains in 2024 were lifted off their own wheels — twice. The https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/023 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/023 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Every height on every map is measured from "sea level." That surface is lumpy: it swings 191 m, from 106 m below the reference ellipsoid SW of Sri Lanka to 85 m above it near Iceland. The deepest dent https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/022 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/022 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT In 1494 Spain and Portugal split the planet along one meridian: 370 leagues west of Cape Verde. Nobody could measure longitude, so the same line got drawn anywhere from 48°47′W to 42°25′W. Six d https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/021 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/021 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT On the Mercator map, Greenland is drawn the size of Africa. Africa is 14x larger — 30,365,000 km² vs 2,166,086. Area inflates by sec²φ: x4 at 60°, x132 at 85°. On Sep 4 the UN voted 164–1 to https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/020 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/020 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT The Pan-American Highway runs ~30,000 km, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. It breaks exactly once: 106 km of rainforest between Yaviza, Panama and Turbo, Colombia. Surveyed, funded, then stopped by a 1975 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/019 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/019 Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Your compass points at a place that won't hold still. Since 1831 the north magnetic pole has walked 2,200+ km out of Arctic Canada and across the top of the world — it's now at 85.76°N 139.30°E, c https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/018 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/018 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT GPS satellites don't know where you are. Each just broadcasts what time it is, from 20,200 km up — your phone turns four timestamps into a place. 31 are flying now, in six planes tilted 55°, which https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/017 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/017 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT 99% of Earth's liquid fresh water isn't in rivers or lakes — it's underground, in rock. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/016 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/016 Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Every night a satellite photographs the dark side of Earth, and humanity draws its own settlement map. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/015 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/015 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Every migratory bird on Earth uses one of just eight flyways. In 2022 a 4-month-old bar-tailed godwit flew one of them nonstop: Alaska to Tasmania, 13,560 km, 11 days, no food, no rest, no landing. Al https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/014 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/014 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Earth's crust is a jigsaw of 52 plates — 14 large, 38 small. Seven of them carry 92% of the surface. The Atlantic opens slower than your fingernails grow; the northern Tonga Trench swallows seafloor https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/013 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/013 Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT The Amazon is fertilised by the Sahara. Every year 27.7 million tonnes of African dust cross the Atlantic and settle on the basin, carrying ~22,000 t of phosphorus — roughly what the rain washes out https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/012 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/012 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Every climate on Earth fits into 30 codes built from five letters — A, B, C, D, E. The biggest one isn't forest. Arid climates cover 30.2% of all land, and hot desert alone is 14.2%. One code, Csc, https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/011 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/011 Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Stand on the brass Prime Meridian at Greenwich and your phone says you're not at zero. Satellite zero is 102.5 m east — out in the park, roughly at a litter bin. The line never moved; the definition https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/010 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/010 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT Everyone born before ~1880 could see our galaxy from their doorstep. Today the Milky Way is hidden from 1 in 3 humans — 60% of Europeans, ~80% of North Americans. From Paris, the nearest clean night https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/009 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/009 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT A continental divide is the thinnest line in geography: two raindrops land a metre apart in Montana, one reaches Oregon, the other the Gulf of Mexico. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/008 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/008 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT Draw one line around the Pacific — 40,000 km, New Zealand to Japan to Alaska to Chile — and you've drawn where 81% of Earth's largest earthquakes happen. Today's map traces every trench, arc and M https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/007 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/007 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT One Dutch-Belgian village is made of 30 separate parcels of two countries: 22 pieces of Belgium inside the Netherlands, and 8 pieces of the Netherlands inside those. The border runs through people's k https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/006 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/006 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT In 1884 the world agreed on 24 time zones. It now keeps 38. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/005 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/005 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT Dig straight through the Earth from almost anywhere on land and you surface in open ocean. Only 4.4% of the planet's surface is land with land directly opposite it — and nearly all of it sits in thr https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/004 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/004 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT Draw a circle 3,386 km in radius around a point in the mountains of Yunnan. More people live inside it than in the entire rest of the world. https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/003 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/003 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT Draw a grid over Earth. Shade every cell with 900+ people per square mile. Those cells hold HALF of humanity — and they're about 1% of the land. A 3,300 km circle over Myanmar holds more people than https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/002 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/002 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT Satellites get the credit. The work is done by ~600 fibre-optic cables lying 2–7km down: they carry 99%+ of intercontinental internet traffic. Satellites move 0.37% of US international capacity. ~20 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/001 https://dailydoseinfo.com/maps/editions/001 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT Point a boat southwest off a beach in Balochistan, hold one heading, and the next land you touch is Kamchatka — 32,090 km later. The longest straight line you can sail on Earth: 288°35′ of one gr