GEOGRAPHY
The atlas of where power lives.
Everything on the site that maps the world: the metros that concentrate civilization, the countries and states that contain them, the people and offices that run them, the alliances and wars between them, and a year-by-year ranking of national power stretching back to 1789.
The Power Atlas
A single index of national power, computed for every state from 1789 to today and ranked against its contemporaries. Slide through 235 years and watch empires rise and fall, from Pax Britannica to the bipolar Cold War to now, with latent-versus-recognised lenses and a rising-and-fading divergence view.
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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.
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.
People & power
Who holds it
The powerful, the wealthy, and the elected, from the hundred most powerful people to every head of state, mapped to the places they run.
The Nowhere 100
The hundred most powerful people alive, on one Metro Power scale.
World Leaders
Every head of state and government, with a time machine back to 1789.
Billionaires
The world's wealthiest, placed on the metros that made them.
US Political Leadership
The executive, Congress, and the fifty governors.
Mayors of the World
Who runs the great cities, capital by capital.
Geopolitics
Between states
The alliances that bind states and the wars that divide them.
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Ways in
Categorical lenses on the same data, and a door chosen at random.