Where do the world’s roughly 2,000 chess Grandmasters come from? A map and ranked table of GMs by country, from Russia’s lead to India’s historic surge to the top.

Wild polio survives in only two countries, but vaccine-derived strains still paralyse children across Africa and turn up in Europe’s sewers. Mapped: polio status by country in 2026, the year eradication was meant to finish.

A fast-growing Cyclospora parasite outbreak has sickened close to 7,000 people across the US since May, with Michigan the epicenter. Mapped: confirmed cases by state, and why salad greens are the prime suspect.

Only about 70 countries still change their clocks. As the US House votes to abolish the switch, a map of where daylight saving time survives, where it has been dropped, and the permanent-summer-vs-winter debate.

At midnight on 15 July 2026, Gibraltar’s 118-year-old border fence with Spain came down as the British territory joined the EU’s Schengen zone. Mapped: where Gibraltar sits and what the treaty changes.

EU asylum claims fell 27% in 2025, but the map was redrawn: Venezuela overtook Afghanistan as the top origin and Spain overtook Germany as the top destination. Mapped, by origin and destination.

As AIDS 2026 opens in Rio, a map of the global HIV epidemic: where prevalence is highest, where the most people live with HIV, and the funding cliff threatening two decades of progress.

From Paris to Prague, Madrid to Melbourne, a growing list of cities has banned shared e-scooter fleets. Mapped: where rental scooters are banned, suspended or capped in 2026.

The UBS Global Wealth Report 2026 shows average wealth soaring while the typical person stalls. Mapped: average vs median wealth per adult, and why Germany falls furthest, below Greece.

Days of record monsoon rain have killed at least 44 people and stranded over a million in southeastern Bangladesh, with the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar hit hardest. We map the 2026 disaster.

The EU’s 2025 figures reveal a stark map of who gets a Schengen visa and who doesn’t: a 4% refusal rate for China, 51.9% for Senegal. We map refusal rates by nationality and by issuing state, and the €157m rejection tax.

As The Open returns to Royal Birkdale, we map every country’s all-time golf major championships, from the USA’s 291 to Scotland, the home of golf, whose glory is almost entirely frozen before World War Two.

An all-Czech Wimbledon final caps a golden run for Czech tennis. We map every country’s all-time haul of Grand Slam singles titles, from the USA’s 353 to the nations still chasing their first.

Wildfires have killed at least 14 people across Europe in 2026 as record heat dries out the Mediterranean. We map the major fires, the worst-hit countries, and how 2026 compares to 2025’s record season.

H5N1 bird flu has reached every continent. We map the 2025-26 outbreak by country: poultry losses, the spread to cattle, and 993 human cases since 2003.

1 GB of mobile data costs $0.02 in Israel and $43.75 in Zimbabwe. The US, Canada and Switzerland pay more than 90% of countries. Full map + rankings across 237 countries.

Eurostat granted 80,424 first residence permits to U.S. citizens in 2024. Spain overtook France as #1, Germany slid to third, and the post-2024-election surge is only just starting to show. Full map + top-15 ranking.

The European Court of Justice killed the EU’s last golden passport in April 2025. Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK have closed their golden visas since 2022. Here is where residency and citizenship by investment still exist in 2026 – and how much each programme costs.

In 2024 migrant workers sent home a record $857 billion. India alone received $137bn. But by share of GDP the story flips: Tajikistan runs on remittances at 47%, Tonga at 39%. Two maps of the same money.

Revolut runs personal accounts in the UK, all 30 EEA countries, Switzerland, and 15+ other markets in 2026, but ‘available’ means very different things in Tokyo, Toronto, Bangalore and Boston. Mapped, with the country-by-country fine print.