PLACES
Places: metros, countries and the map.
Everything on the site that maps the world: the metros that concentrate civilization, the countries and states that contain them, and the tools to explore and compare them. Who runs them, and how they are ordered, lives in Politics.
Places & directories
The map itself
Metros, countries, and subdivisions, plus the tools to explore and compare them.
Metro Power Rankings
Every metro on Earth, scored across sixteen weighted dimensions.
Countries
Every sovereign state and territory, with leaders, economy, teams, and power.
States & Provinces
First-level subdivisions and the metro strength inside each.
Supertall Skyscrapers
The hundred tallest buildings, every structure past 350 metres, and the metros building fastest.
Expandable Map
Pan and zoom the ranked world, metro by metro.
Compare Metros
Put any two metros side by side, dimension by dimension.
Matchups
Head-to-head metro showdowns, London versus New York and beyond.
Neighborhoods
Inside the metros: districts, boroughs, and the neighborhoods that make them.
Politics
Who runs these places
The people, offices, elections and alliances moved to their own hub.
More
Ways in
Categorical lenses on the same data, and a door chosen at random.