What could go wrong? (That’s not a place name, by the way.) This global map of literal translations of country names from Credit Card Compare is extraordinary and insightful.

In March I wrote about a world map where the country names had been translated to their original literal meanings, as far as anyone could be sure. Language, after all, is a complex and confusing ...

China is owed a record $22 billion in debts from 75 of the world's most vulnerable countries this year.

What's in a name? Some pretty illuminating insights into the history and culture of a place, it turns out. Credit Card Compare, an Australia-based website that offers its users assistance with ...

On the map - generated using Google search data - country names have been supplemented with their residents' most-searched-for bucket-list experience.

The Magnificently Rude Map of World Place Names, made by mapmakers Strumpshaw, Tincleton & Giggleswick (there's rudeness in that name, somehow) aims to group all of these together in one place.

On the map - generated using Wikipedia page-view data - country names have been supplemented by the national landmark that is read about the most on Wikipedia.

China is owed a record $22 billion in debts from 75 of the world's most vulnerable countries this year.