Any cool or quirky US election map should ideally have a response in the form of a similar EU election map. So inspired by a Tim Wallace twitter thread (see at the end), here is a series of maps on how various land types “voted” in 2019:
Agricultural areas:
(i.e. arable land, permanent crops and other heterogeneous agricultural areas)
Pastures:
Forests (don’t always vote green):
Shrubs and Grasslands:
Wetlands:
Barrens:
(i.e. beaches, bare rocks, badlands, tundra, glaciers, perpetual snow)
And finally Built Areas, the most boring, because people actually live there. Includes roads and mines and industrial areas.
Inspired by:
All land cover data from Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.
A.P. 