In much of the rich world the tap always runs; for over a billion people, piped water flows only a few hours a day — so the household storage tank rules. Mapped: continuous 24/7 versus intermittent water supply worldwide.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Família has become the world’s tallest church at 172.5 m, ending Ulm Minster’s 136-year reign. Mapped and ranked: the 15 tallest churches on Earth.

A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck off southern Mindanao on 8 June 2026, generating a tsunami and killing at least 41 people. Mapped: the epicentre, the aftershock sequence and the latest casualty figures.

Most countries budget on the calendar year, but around two dozen don’t. A world map of when each government’s fiscal year starts — April, July, October — and the history behind it.

A state-by-state map of the 2026 U.S. measles outbreak: where cases are concentrated, cases per 100,000 people, MMR vaccination gaps, and how 2026 compares with past years.

More than 60 countries now offer a digital nomad or remote-work visa. A world map of where you can live and work remotely in 2026 — plus income requirements, durations, taxes, and the newest additions.

For World Refugee Day, a map of where the world’s 42.5 million refugees actually go. Iran, Turkey, Colombia and Germany host the most — but the bigger story is that developing countries next to conflict, not rich nations, shelter most of them.

On 14 June 2026, Switzerland votes on capping its population at 10 million. With ~31% of residents born abroad — among Europe’s highest — and growth driven by immigration, a Yes could force the country to end free movement with the EU.

About 3 in 4 countries now allow some form of dual citizenship. A world map of where holding two passports is allowed, restricted, or banned — from the open Americas and Europe to the Asian holdouts like China, India and Japan.

On 16 May 2026, the WHO declared the new Bundibugyo-virus outbreak in DRC and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern — DRC’s 17th Ebola outbreak in 50 years. The map: every Ebola outbreak since the virus was first identified in 1976, plus the worldwide case totals.

After Italy’s top court ruled that hotels and restaurants don’t have to serve free tap water, we mapped where a glass of water is a legal right — France, Spain, Portugal, the UK, Australia — and where it’s a billable extra.

Five years after the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s military controls only a fifth to a third of the country. An interactive map of who holds the upper hand in each state — from the Arakan Army’s grip on Rakhine to the shattered Brotherhood Alliance in the north.

Starbucks operates 40,990 stores across 89 markets as of fiscal 2025 — 16,864 in the U.S. and about 8,011 in China. A mapped look at how many Starbucks there are, the countries with the most, and the full list of countries where Starbucks operates.

For decades the Pamir and Karakoram mountains were the planet’s last stable glaciers, defying the global melt. In 2025 that ended: Central Asia lost a record ~30 km³ of ice — nearly 2% of what remains — in a single year, and new research shows the anomaly tipped around 2018 when snowfall collapsed. Mapped, with what it means for the Amu Darya and the millions who depend on its meltwater.

Father’s Day is the most globally synchronized holiday on the calendar: roughly 86 countries — the US, UK, Canada, India, Japan, Mexico and most of Africa and Asia — celebrate on the third Sunday of June (June 21 in 2026). But Catholic Europe honours fathers on March 19 (St Joseph’s Day), the southern hemisphere waits until spring, Germany ties the day to Ascension, and a long tail from Thailand to Taiwan to Russia picks its own date. This post maps every country’s Father’s Day and explains why one parent’s holiday is so neatly aligned while the other’s is scattered across the year.

Transparency International’s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index shows the global average falling to a new low of 42 as anti-corruption leadership falters. We mapped every country — from cleanest (Denmark, 89) to most corrupt (Somalia and South Sudan, 9).

Most of humanity now lives below the 2.1 replacement fertility level. We mapped every country’s birth rate in 2024 — and what the UN’s projected population peak around 2084 means, with what experts say we can actually do about it.

The Atlantic Council’s 2026 Atlas ranks 164 countries on a 0–100 Prosperity Index. Norway tops at 91.6, South Sudan trails at 32.6, and prosperity tracks freedom at a 0.72 correlation — but Gulf petrostates are prosperous without being free, while democracies like Cape Verde and Ghana are free without yet being prosperous. Mapped: every country’s prosperity, and where it diverges from freedom.