Culture – Worldmapper https://worldmapper.org the world as you've never seen it before Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:56:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Nobel Prize Literature 1901-2025 https://worldmapper.org/maps/nobel-prize-literature-1901-2025/ https://worldmapper.org/maps/nobel-prize-literature-1901-2025/#respond Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:17:10 +0000 https://worldmapper.org/?post_type=product&p=14610 “On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace – the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” (quoted from Nobelprize.org) On 10 December 2018 this year’s main award ceremonies take place in Stockholm and Oslo, adding the latest laureates to the list. France is leading the list of Literature laureates, with 17, followed by the United States of America (14) and the United Kingdom (12). Germany and Sweden complete the top 5, with 10 and 8 - respectively. Overall citizens of 45 countries were awarded a Literature Nobel Prize, only the Peace Nobel Prize has been given to more countries.]]> This map shows each country proportional to the numbers of Nobel Prizes for Literature won by citizens from there between 1901 and 2025.

Data sources
This map uses data by The Nobel Institute  (last accessed January 2026). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

]]> https://worldmapper.org/maps/nobel-prize-literature-1901-2025/feed/ 0 Nobel Prize Literature 1901-2022 https://worldmapper.org/maps/nobel-prize-literature-1901-2022/ https://worldmapper.org/maps/nobel-prize-literature-1901-2022/#respond Fri, 14 Oct 2022 20:07:06 +0000 https://worldmapper.org/?post_type=product&p=14290 “On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace – the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” (quoted from Nobelprize.org) On 10 December 2018 this year’s main award ceremonies take place in Stockholm and Oslo, adding the latest laureates to the list. France is leading the list of Literature laureates, with 17 out of the 134, followed by the United States of America (14) and the United Kingdom (12). Germany and Sweden complete the top 5, with 10 and 8 - respectively. Overall citizens of 45 countries were awarded a Literature Nobel Prize, only the Peace Nobel Prize has been given to more countries.]]> This map shows each country proportional to the numbers of Nobel Prizes for Literature won by citizens from there between 1901 and 2022.

Data sources
This map uses data by The Nobel Institute  (last accessed October 2022). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

]]> https://worldmapper.org/maps/nobel-prize-literature-1901-2022/feed/ 0 Nobel Prize Literature 1901-2018 https://worldmapper.org/maps/nobel-prize-literature-1901-2018/ https://worldmapper.org/maps/nobel-prize-literature-1901-2018/#respond Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:09:34 +0000 https://worldmapper.org/?post_type=product&p=10440 “On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace – the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” (quoted from Nobelprize.org) On 10 December 2018 this year’s main award ceremonies take place in Stockholm and Oslo, adding the latest laureates to the list. France is leading the list of Literature laureates, with 16 out of the 262, followed by the United States of America (13) and the United Kingdom (11). Germany and Sweden complete the top 5, with 10 and 8 - respectively. Overall citizens of 45 countries were awarded a Literature Nobel Prize, only the Peace Nobel Prize has been given to more countries. Read more about this map in our blog]]> This map shows each country proportional to the numbers of Nobel Prizes for Literature won by citizens from there between 1901 and 2018.

Data sources
This map uses data by The Nobel Institute  (last accessed December 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

]]> https://worldmapper.org/maps/nobel-prize-literature-1901-2018/feed/ 0 UNESCO World Heritage Sites https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-total-sites-2017/ https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-total-sites-2017/#respond Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:30:08 +0000 https://worldmapper.org/?post_type=product&p=9316 UNESCO website) The UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites plays a central role in these efforts. While on the one hand many states and places aim for inclusion on the World Heritage Site list as it can help boost tourism, the official approval also comes with the cost and effort to preserving and protecting the site adequately which can be a costly and complicated issue. Not least these considerable efforts are one of the reasons why there is a particular imbalance in the distribution of 832 cultural heritage sites that existed in 2017. These are more likely to be situated in wealthier nations, although countries such as the USA are also less present here for political reasons. Unlike cultural heritage sites, natural heritage is found in a more widespread distribution across the world as their maintenance seems to be less of a barrier towards their preservation. They are also much smaller in number (206 in 2017) and therefore less unequally distributed as their cultural equivalents.]]> This map shows territories proportional to the number of all UNESCO World Heritage sites there in 2017.

Data sources
This map uses data from the UNESCO World Heritage List (last accessed January 2018).

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

]]> https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-total-sites-2017/feed/ 0 UNESCO Heritage Mixed Sites https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-heritage-mixed-sites-2017/ https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-heritage-mixed-sites-2017/#respond Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:52:07 +0000 https://worldmapper.org/?post_type=product&p=9323 UNESCO website) The UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites plays a central role in these efforts. While on the one hand many states and places aim for inclusion on the World Heritage Site list as it can help boost tourism, the official approval also comes with the cost and effort to preserving and protecting the site adequately which can be a costly and complicated issue.]]> This map shows territories proportional to the number of mixed UNESCO World Heritage sites there in 2017.

Data sources
This map uses data from the UNESCO World Heritage List (last accessed January 2018).

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

]]> https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-heritage-mixed-sites-2017/feed/ 0 UNESCO Cultural Sites https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-culturalsites-2017/ https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-culturalsites-2017/#respond Sat, 21 Apr 2018 17:24:36 +0000 https://worldmapper.org/?post_type=product&p=8387 UNESCO website) The UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites plays a central role in these efforts. While on the one hand many states and places aim for inclusion on the World Heritage Site list as it can help boost tourism, the official approval also comes with the cost and effort to preserving and protecting the site adequately which can be a costly and complicated issue. Not least these considerable efforts are one of the reasons why there is a particular imbalance in the distribution of 832 cultural heritage sites that existed in 2017. These are more likely to be situated in wealthier nations, although countries such as the USA are also less present here for political reasons.]]> This map shows territories proportional to the number of Cultural World Heritage sites there in 2017.

Data sources
This map uses data from the UNESCO World Heritage List (last accessed January 2018).

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

]]> https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-culturalsites-2017/feed/ 0 UNESCO Natural Sites https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-naturalsites-2017/ https://worldmapper.org/maps/unesco-naturalsites-2017/#respond Wed, 04 Apr 2018 17:40:08 +0000 https://worldmapper.org/?post_type=product&p=8404 UNESCO website) The UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites plays a central role in these efforts. While on the one hand many states and places aim for inclusion on the World Heritage Site list as it can help boost tourism, the official approval also comes with the cost and effort to preserving and protecting the site adequately which can be a costly and complicated issue. Unlike cultural heritage sites, natural heritage is found in a more widespread distribution across the world as their maintenance seems to be less of a barrier towards their preservation. They are also much smaller in number (206 in 2017) and therefore less unequally distributed as their cultural equivalents.]]> This map shows territories proportional to the number of Natural World Heritage sites there in 2017.

Data sources
This map uses data from the UNESCO World Heritage List (last accessed January 2018).

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

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