Maps of the US
Massachusetts had the priciest homes in America back in 2000, averaging $192,616. Not a single state had crossed the $200,000 threshold. Twenty-five years later, the housing market has completely restructured itself. Most people have noticed prices going up everywhere, but how much of that is real growth versus just inflation doing its thing?
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What if Romans had named the United States? Someone translated all 50 state names into classical Latin. New York becomes Novum Eboracum (Eboracum was Roman York). Pennsylvania is Silvānia Penni (Penn’s Woods). Idaho is Idahum. The map shows America as Rome might have labeled it.
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Think Russia and the USA are half a world apart? Not quite. In the Bering Strait, two islands prove these superpowers are actually neighbors. The gap between them is just 2.4 miles (3.8 km).
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The beach isn’t where America ends. Underwater, the continental shelf extends for miles, and the U.S. has jurisdiction over 5 million square miles of ocean floor. This includes everything from Alaska’s Arctic waters to small Pacific islands that were claimed in the 1850s because of bird droppings.
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Greater Los Angeles holds 18.5 million people across seven counties with extremely different densities. Orange County packs 3,345 people per square mile while San Bernardino County has 109. LA County median homes cost over $800,000 versus under $600,000 in Riverside County, driving projections that LA County could lose 1.4 million residents by 2060.
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Five years ago, I made a stylized Great Islands map. Recently I found Stephen Kennedy’s version, and it got me thinking about what actually lives in these lakes. When you see them as islands, you remember they’re not just water—they’re ecosystems packed with life.
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Germans dominate 21 states from Pennsylvania to Oregon. Forty-one million Americans identify as German, with Wisconsin at 36%. Mexicans lead five Southwest states at 11%. African Americans top nine Southern states where slavery was concentrated. Italians run New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey with 18 million Americans. Irish dominate New England at 11%.
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Jeffrey Linn mapped what Southern California looks like when 80 meters (260 ft) of seawater flood the LA Basin. Two versions show the transformation from basin to bay.
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While swing states dominate election coverage, there’s another electoral geography worth examining. Twenty states and Washington, DC have remained remarkably consistent in their presidential voting patterns since 1988, creating a stable foundation beneath the shifting political landscape. Which states have never wavered, and what does their geographical distribution tell us about American political geography?
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US states with Democratic or Republican governor wins over last six elections: Washington all six Democratic, Texas all six Republican, Arizona even three each, plus regional trends and surprises like Kansas four Democratic.
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