In 2025, Russia had a GDP of $2.6 trillion with a population of 145 million. Jiangsu and Shanghai had a GDP of $2.8 trillion with a population of 110 million.

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Note that on this map time of day and date move on different clocks.

If you want to explore this map further: https://chillchamp1.github.io/Animal-movement/rings.html

Source

Chess ratings are derrived from chessever.com, while population estimates are sourced from https://data.worldbank.org/ .

Edit: By "per capita" I meant per one million.

This is my fourth installment in this reddit map series, following this map. I got most of these sources from wikipedia, especially for the tribes, so just look out for any errors.

Just a fun weekend project I worked on this summer. I wanted to create a visual overview of when different map projections have appeared in history.

The information was adapted from Wikipedia’s “List of map projections” and is shared under the Creative Commons.

Feel free to reuse or adapt it—attribution would be appreciated! Cheers!

Comments, changes, advice, and improvements are more than welcome! :)

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Made by Branko Greškovič – 1. September 2026.

This includes monarchs of other countries (e.g. Sweden and Denmark) that was also the monarch of Norway