Questions tagged [map]
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Do 50% of Canadians live south of the 45°42′N latitude?
Brilliant Maps claim that:
While the 49th parallel is often thought of as the border between the US and Canada, the vast majority of Canadians (roughly 72%) live below it, with 50% of Canadians living south of 45°42′ (45.7 degrees) north or the red…
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Did the pope ever commission Mercator to make a map?
According to this video, at 2:14,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPajzKpP1WY
"The pope commissioned Mercator to make a map that shows the spread of Christianity." and further claims this is the famous Mercator projection map commonly used for…
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Did Kyiv National Linguistic University publish a map showing that only a few Ukrainians (in the West of the country) speak Ukrainian at home?
Various Russian & other sources give this map (also on P.SE, but probably the most notable of these might be https://www.opendemocracy.net/ru/kto-boretsya-s-kem-v-ukraine-i-pochemu/)
Was that map actually published by "Kyiv National Linguistic…
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