Lingual Map of the World. (Patreon)

This is a map of language. I used the majority languages in each area. I'm weakest on Africa, Indonesia and the Amazon. Those areas don't have good information or data and it wouldn't surprise me if I got the data wrong in these areas. A few things I've noticed. 

1.People talk a lot about India's diversity, but it's basically similar to Europe. I always found it bizarre that India is a unified country at all. 

2.The cleanest borders are in Europe, where the nation state predominated rather than empires, which are the average throughout history. Nation states tended to establish singular cultures while empires promote multiculturalism to survive. 

3.This actually reminds me quite a bit of Sam Huntingdon's "Clash of Civilizations". You can see the bonds of kinship and alliance that have existed throughout history. Australians and Americans or Egyptians and Syrians can cooperate to a much greater degree than their non-lingual partners. 

4.Tiny populations can hold huge regions. The Native tribes are less than 5 percent of Canada, Russia or Australia's population yet hold more than a third of their borders.

5.You can easily tell the areas that were recently colonized by Europeans and had no pre-existing states. Sub-Saharan Africa and Indonesia were tribal until 100 years ago and thus lacked the centuries of conscription, taxes, bureaucracy and empire that create linguistic unity.