Me too… I also bet some Canadian would wonder why large areas of his country have dissolved.

Its quite misleading that regions with (almost) no inhabitants have the same colour as the open sea (although, technically, there are also no people living).

When naming of the DOW, the Germans followed the analogies between the pagan gods as e.g. noted by Tacitus. Mars -> Tyr, Mercurius -> Wodan/Odin, Juppiter -> Donar/Thor and Venus -> Frija/Frigg.

After looking closely at the cropped image found on reddit, I think the southward pointing notch (‘bay’) of the Mediterranean is in fact part of the Sahara desert. The blue area next to that then is the Nile delta with the tall peak, Cairo. Palestine then starts next to the dark corner on the right from it.

Sunday comes first in order in calendars shown in the table below. In the Abrahamic tradition, the first day of the week is Sunday. Biblical Sabbath (corresponding to Saturday) is when God rested from six-day Creation, making the day following the Sabbath the first day of the week (corresponding to Sunday). Seventh-day Sabbaths were sanctified for celebration and rest. After the week was adopted in early Christianity, Sunday remained the first day of the week, but also gradually displaced Saturday as the day of celebration and rest, being considered the Lord’s Day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#Days_numbered_from_Saturday

So in Abrahamic religions, first day of week is Sunday, as the day after Sabbath. In Germany, Monday became day one in 1969 (DRG), and 1975 (FRG), respectively.

This “anything else” usually is the variance or standard deviation, but I doubt anyone without education in statistics can grasp what they mean.

Don’t forget the Oktoberfest in Munich.

A bit like a map on how Europe is perceived by Americans, where whole Germany is Bavaria.

The equator is one centre axis, one meridian, here 75° E the other. Thus, 0° N 75° E is the centre here instead of 0° N 0° E.

This projection heavily distorts areas where it is not so obvious, as they are in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific ocean, but also parts of Africa.

India actually, as no way Spain is ~1/3 of India in reality. They probably take advantage of the area of China being subtly enlarged.

https://feddit.org/comment/1079443

TY for highlighting the advantages of that projection.

Looks quite similar to a Cassini projection with the 75° E meridian as centre instead of the 0° meridian.

According to Wikipedia, the difference between matrimony and marriage isn’t that clear:

Marriage is a socially or ritually recognized union, or legal contract between spouses.

Matrimony is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses.

The last map is based on data from 2023, so some things have changed since then.

There is approximately Aabenraa, Flensborg should be south, right?

Malmö should be further south too.