GeoCurrents Maps of the World & World Regions - GeoCurrents

World:

Terms used for first-order administrative divisions (World)
Geopolitically unstable states (World)
Varieties of land borders, hard and soft (World)
Composite countries (World)
GDP per capita, Nominal, countries of 100,000,000+ split into first-order subdivisions (World)
Sovereign Wealth Funds (World)
State revenue, 2010, $ (World)
State revenue per capita, 2010, $ (World)
Ease of Doing Business Index, 2010 (World)
Total Tax Rate Burden, % of profit, Ease of Doing Business Index (World)
Ease of paying taxes, Ease of Doing Business Index (World)
Ease of enforcing contracts, Ease of Doing Business Index (World)
Ease of getting credit, Ease of Doing Business Index (World)
Largest reservoirs in the world (World)
Largest hydroelectric power stations in the world (World)
Electricity generation from hydro (World)
Electricity generated from wind (World)
Electricity generated from solar (World)
Electricity generated from geothermal (World)
Electricity generated from biomass (World)
Percentage electricity from renewable sources (World)
Fuel prices (World)
Annual per capita coffee consumption (World)
Annual per capita tea consumption (World)
Opiate use, ages 15-65 (World)
World Economic Forum’s Global Infrastructure Rankings (World)
Demic regions of the world (World)
Constituent Units of the Demic Regions (World)
Island aggregations in the Demic Framework (World)
“Demic North” vs. “Demic South”, GDP per capita (World)
GDP per capita in the Demic and State-Based Frameworks (World)
GDP per capita, PPP in the Demic and State-Based Frameworks (World)
GDP per capita in Demic Framework (World)
GDP per capita, PPP, in the Demic Framework (World)
GDP per capita, Nominal, in the Demic Framework (World)
GDP per capita, Nominal, in the State-Based Framework (World)
Global GDP per capita, in Nominal vs. PPP, in the State-Based Framework (World)
Global GDP per capita, in Nominal vs. PPP, in the Demic Framework (World)
Degree of change in Nominal GDP per capita, from Conventional to Demic Map (World)
Human Development Index in the Demic Framework (World)
Human Development Index in the State-Based Framework (World)
Human Development Index in the Demic and State-Based Frameworks (World)
Internet users, 2008 (World)
Happy Planet Index, 2009 (World)
Reliability of police services (World)
Hotel rooms per 100 population, 2010 (World)
Broadband internet subscribers (World)
ATMs accepting visa cards (World)
Road traffic accidents (World)
Mobile phone subscriptions (World)
Mobile broadband subscriptions (World)
Top 50 City Destinations, 2008 (World)
Sports stadiums per million population (World)
West Indies Cricket team (Caribbean)
Cricket World Cup contestants, 2011 (World)
Baseball around the world (World)
Rugby Union (World)
Total Fertility Rate, 2010-2015 (World)
Total Fertility Rate, 1950-1955 (World)
Total Fertility Rate, 2010-2015 & 1950-1955 (World)
Percentage of adults describing themselves as “a religious person” (World)
Spread of Mormonism (World)
Spread of Jehovah’s Witnesses (World)
Spread of Seventh’s Day Adventists (World)
Spread of Mennonite Population (World)
World language families: Indo-European (World)
World language families: Sino-Tibetan (World)
World language families: Niger-Congo (World)
World language families: Afro-Asiatic (World)
World language families: Austronesian (World)
World language families: Uralic (World)
World language families: Nilo-Saharan (World)
World language families: Dravidian (World)
World language families: Austro-Asiatic (World)
World language families: Tai-Kadai (World)
World language families: “Altaic” (World)
World language families: “Macro-Altaic” (World)
World language families: Japonic (World)
World language families: Koreanic (World)
World language families: Turkic (World)
World language families: Mongolic (World)
World language families: Tungusic (World)
World language families: Eskimo-Aleut (World)
World language families: Vasconic (World)
orld language groups: Khoisan (World)
World language groups: Caucasian (World)
World language groups: Papuan (World)
World language groups: Australian (World)
World language groups: “Amerindian” (World)
World language groups: Paleo-Siberian (World)
Intentional homicide rate, 2011 (World)
Executions per capita, 2010 (World)
Ethnolinguanymic sovereign states (World)
Underfit “ethnolinguanymic states” (World)
Per capita ecological footprint (World)
Landlocked countries (World)

Europe:

Geopolitical map of Europe (Europe)
Europe’s evolving borders (Europe)
Volga Finns, c. 800 CE (Eastern Europe)
Forms of government in 18th-century Europe (Europe)

South, Southeast & East Asia:

Geopolitical map of Eastern and Southern Asia (Eastern and Southern Asia)
Geopolitical map of Eastern and Southern Asia superimposed on physical map (Eastern and Southern Asia)
East Asian seas (East Asia)
The five seas of Asia’s Eastern rim (East Asia)
Disputed islands in the East Asian seas (East Asia)
Balochistan under British Domination, Late 1800s-1947 (Balochistan)
GDP per capita, 2009-2010 (The Southern Himalayan Realm)
Electricity consumption, per capita (Southeast Asia)

Greater Middle East:

Self-proclaimed states & effectively sovereign entities (Middle East)
Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa Circle (Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: states claiming a large divided territory (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: non-contiguous states (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: (arguably) non-national federations (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: feeble and failed states (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: territories controlled by non-state Islamist organizations (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: states with active separatist movements (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: states with disputed boundaries (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: non-sovereign territories (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: non-UN member, incomplete international recognition (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: incomplete international recognition (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: states with barely functioning central governments (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: territories annexed by neighboring states (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: states that have annexed territories of neighboring states (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: states that do not control their entire territory (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: self-proclaimed states with some international recognition (Greater Middle East)
Anomalies on the standard geopolitical map: self-proclaimed states and effectively sovereign entities (Greater Middle East)
States emerged after 1990 (Greater Middle East)
Total refugees by country of origin (Greater Middle East)
Refugees per native inhabitants by country of asylum (Greater Middle East)
Combat fatalities in internal armed conflicts, 2014 (Greater Middle East)
Geopolitics of Iraqi Kurdistan (Kurdistan)
European colonial spheres (Greater Middle East)
Arabic and Persian as majority languages, by state (Greater Middle East)

Africa:

Nominal per capita GDP, US$ 2014 (Africa)
Nile Basin hydropolitics (Africa)
Nigeria, “Africa’s Demographic Giant” (Africa)
African endonymic country names, Arabic vs. other (Africa)
African endonymic country names, based on endonym map (Africa)

Indian Ocean:

Western and Central Indian Ocean; Exclusive Economic Zones (Indian Ocean)
Contested islands and EEZs in the Western and Central Indian Ocean (Indian Ocean)
French islands and EEZs in the Western and Southern Indian Ocean (Indian Ocean)

Australia & Oceania:

Rugby vs. Australian Football (Australia/New Zealand)

The Americas:

Latin America: Political position of the leading political party, 2015 (South America)
GDP per capita, PPP, 2009 (Central America)

Association of Caribbean states, member states (Caribbean)
Sovereign states and their EEZs in the Caribbean (Caribbean)
Dependent areas and subsidiary states of the Caribbean (Caribbean)
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (Caribbean)
Caribbean Community (Caribbean)
The Netherlands’ Caribbean EEZs (Caribbean)
Caribbean maritime disputes (Caribbean)
Caribbean Exclusive Economic Zones (Caribbean)

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GeoCurrents is dedicated to exploring the geographical and historical patterns that underlie the world’s current events and that structure global and regional relationships. Maps are used in all posts not merely to show where events occur, but also to illustrate the processes involved.

GeoCurrents tries to avoid taking sides on contentious issues, seeking rather to foster an enriching exchange of information and ideas. As its scope is both fully global and deeply historical, the author is usually operating outside of his own fields of expertise. As a result, mistakes and simplifications can be expected. Corrections and elaborations are more than welcome in the comments section. Comments with insulting or abusive language, however, will be deleted.

Readers interested in opinion-based essays by Martin W. Lewis will be able to find them on his personal webpage.

About The Author

Martin W. Lewis is senior lecturer emeritus at Stanford University, where he taught world history and world geography from 2002 to 2022. He earned a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, and previously taught at George Washington University and Duke University. A list of his published works will soon be made available on his personal website.

GeoCurrents’ Conceptual Concerns

GeoCurrents is concerned about almost anything that has a geographical expression and hence can be explored and elucidated through maps. Topics of interest range from the deadly serious to the quirky and whimsical.

Many GeoCurrents posts take on issues of political geography, ranging from wars and ethnic conflicts to electoral returns. Behind these writings is a conviction that the basic world political map is unduly simplistic, making the world seem much more orderly than it really is. A book-length elaboration of this thesis – entitled Seduced by the Map – will be available on the author’s personal webpage by the end of 2023, if not earlier. The introduction and initial chapters on this book can be found on this website. A summary of the main arguments in Seduced by the Map can be found here.

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