It may be zip code boundaries, given how narrow the NYC strip is. Some of the excessive jankiness in what was Nevada would be because no one lives on a lot of the federally-owned land reserves out there, so they don’t get their own post office, and the catchment area of some zip codes gets huge with weird boundaries.

New Zealand’s gone missing again, I’m assuming it’s lumped in with Australia.

Well, it be easy to identify on a flag pole, at least. You wouldn’t be able to spot individual details, necessarily, but what else would look this busy?

He was teased in the post-credits scene in the first movie.

Data’s from 2014. It’s after the moneyball era, but should be before the final clash between ownership and the city over a replacement stadium that ultimately made a lot of fans sour on the team. (Or, at least, sour on the team under current ownership.)

The Mets don’t even dominate the zip code their home stadium is in; they don’t show on the map at all.

ARM was invented in Europe, I surprised there isn’t a single fabrication plant in the continent. (Yes, as much a they try to deny it, England is part of Europe.)

What’s the deal with the hole in the cloud of pins near the England / Scotland border?

Look how rough most of the island’s terrain is compared to the large flat area where the city of Vancouver is. The physical separation from the mainland doesn’t help, either.

Probably lutefisk, fish cured in lye.

Indigenous names are heavily used. Half the states have Native American derived names, a much larger proportion than I thought. Pre-European population density was much lower, though so there were a lot fewer settlements to name.

The Philippines were a US territory from 1898 to 1946. People born there in that era were non-citizen US nationals, similar to people born in Samoa today, which eased the bureaucratic hurdles to move to the US.