This is the Vatican from my universe, where the main point (without describing the entire lore in full) is that the Pope decided to solemnly gather representatives of a huge number of religions and ideologies, and the main plan was to establish peace between them all and show their common things, but in reality, this led to immediate conflicts and aggressive discussions, after which everything turned into a blockade, and then a guerrilla war, and subsequently a full-fledged civil war, where each individual person advocated for his own special Vatican, and everything there actually happens like in the "Hunger Games."

I noticed several oddities in Valve's Steam traffic map which sets it apart from most maps I've seen form companies. Several nations of limited recognition are depicted despite none having data.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is depicted with its de facto borders while Somaliland is depicted with its full claimed territory.

Additionally, the occupied Golan Heights are lumped in with Israel rather than Syria (3rd image is zoomed in so you can see since Golan is small).

In contrast, neither Russian occupied Ukraine nor the Russian backed Republic of South Ossetia and Republic of Abkhazia are depicted.

I'm curious if anyone knows why steam would acknowledge these contested borders or if I missed anything.

I created this map with the goal of creating fifty states with approximately equal populations by rearranging populations at the county level. The populations of the District of Columbia and the United States' territories were excluded, leaving a population of 341,091,212 (according to 2025 estimates) to be divided up. This meant that Los Angeles County and its 9.7 million people would become a state unto itself.

For the other forty-nine states, the goal became to get as close to the remaining average of 6,763,189 as possible while keeping states as compact and contiguous as possible. Currently, all states, excluding Los Angeles, are within 2% of that goal, and 36 states are within 0.5%. I'm still tinkering with state borders and names, but as things currently stand, here are your new 50 states:

I'd love to get your thoughts on the map itself, and would appreciate any suggestions on improving borders or names.

Thanks!

It took me 25 mins

This is one of the worst maps I have ever seen.

Points in favor of declaring an 8th continent:

1) It is 2 Billion people with a shared culture vs 700 million Europeans with a unique culture.

2) The continent sits on its own tectonic plate.

3) The Himalayas (8.8k max elevation) separate the continent from Asia vs the Urals (2k max elevation) for Europe.

4) Area: 7 millions sq km (2 million from transcontinental countries like Tibet and Myanmar) vs 10 million (4 million from transcontinental countries like Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey)

OR

We can stop pretending that Europe is a continent.

Built a realtime public transport map for Stockholm 🚌 Link for map here 🚊

The app shows live positions for SL - Tunnelbana, Pendeltåg, buses, trams, and ferries across Stockholm using Trafiklab realtime data.

Map was updated on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.
Key:
Star = Capital
Yellow Dot = Provincial Capital
Teal Dot = Military fort
Red Dot = City
Green Dot = Military zone
Pink Dot = Miscellaneous
Brown Area = National Park