Xavi Ruiz
@xruiztru
International Relations and History 📚 • Comms Manager at @eurojewcong 📲 • Here I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊🏳️🌈
THREAD of awesome bastion forts around the world, also called star cities. 1. Bourtange, the Netherlands (1593)
Catalan language is spoken in 4 states: 👉 In Spain: Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencia & the eastern strip of Aragon. 👉 It's the only official language of Andorra. 👉 In France: in most of the Pyrénées Orientales departments in France. 👉 In Italy: Alguer, Sardinia.
🇪🇸Spain and 🇫🇷France recorded EU’s largest population increase in 2024. By contrast, 🇵🇱 Poland’s population fell by over 123,000.
Belgium divided in three (nearly) equal parts. Happy national day! 🇧🇪
#OnThisDay in 356 B.C, Alexander the Great was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia. One of the most extraordinary military leaders in history, Alexander conquered a vast territory stretching from Greece to Egypt and as far as India—all before the age of 33.
Several countries around the world ban communist ideology, symbols or parties. Here is where:
Support for Ukraine🇺🇦 remains high in much of Europe—but not everywhere.
🇮🇷 Map shows the total duration that an area spent under Iranian rule.
Anime isn’t just a Japanese phenomenon anymore. From the U.S. to China, anime’s popularity has gone global—check how your country ranks!
The tariffs announced by Donald Trump in July will target major economies and the numbers speak for themselves.
Map shows locations in Europe whose names consist of just a single letter.
This map reveals a striking demographic reality across Europe in 2024: in most countries, more people died than were born.
Map shows the vast geographic reach and historical duration of Muslim rule around the world.
The Mafia Presence Index across Italy, reveals a stark north-south divide in organized crime influence.
A lot can happen in three elections. Here’s how America’s counties voted each time.
Map shows the global maritime piracy threat level based on data from the years 2019–2020. At that time, piracy was highly concentrated in a few key regions, with the Gulf of Guinea accounting for approximately 43% of all reported attacks.
