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Every Embassy in the World
15,584 embassies, consulates and missions from open data: Washington hosts 181 embassies, the Holy See runs 88 nunciatures, and the diplomatic web traced from the Amarna letters to today.
This is an interactive data study by Dr Tristan Hotham, built from open data. The map runs in your browser: explore it, search for places and switch layers. The write-up explains the method and what the data shows, and the data and code are open for anyone to reuse.
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