[OC] Ich habe 52.323 besiedelte Orte im europäischen Teil Spaniens visualisiert und versehentlich ein atemberaubendes demografisches Phänomen entdeckt.
Von paveloush
![[OC] Ich habe 52.323 besiedelte Orte im europäischen Teil Spaniens visualisiert und versehentlich ein atemberaubendes demografisches Phänomen entdeckt.](https://www.bytesde.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/s1b1v8lmq0lf1-1536x1148.jpeg "[OC] Ich habe 52.323 besiedelte Orte im europäischen Teil Spaniens visualisiert und versehentlich ein atemberaubendes demografisches Phänomen entdeckt.")
[OC] Ich habe 52.323 besiedelte Orte im europäischen Teil Spaniens visualisiert und versehentlich ein atemberaubendes demografisches Phänomen entdeckt.
Von paveloush
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As a personal project, I’m creating artistic maps from geographic data. For this „Stardust“ version of Spain, I plotted every single populated place from OpenStreetMap for the mainland and the Balearic Islands.
I initially thought the bright cluster in the northwest was a bug in my code. But after some research, I was amazed to find it’s a real, well-documented phenomenon known as „dispersed settlement,“ unique to Galicia (where almost half of all of Spain’s populated entities are located).
What about those letters in the upper right side:
PTRIA?
Does this also apply in Portugal?
Very interesting. Asturias and cantabria are also remarkable
The Donegal of Spain…
Fascinating.
I love it, I’m actually from Galicia.
Due to agriculture and difficult terrain each „town“ is composed of several hamlets or communities.
It also extends to Asturias and north of Portugal.
Galicia has rainy weather and a better environment for farms. The rural countryside is better able to sustain a population. It also has easy access to the sea
Is there a non European part of Spain?
Isn’t Spain more or less a union of previously independent states and doesn’t this map just show the remains of that period where every state had their own laws about what counted as a settlement and what doesn’t?
I’m a bit confused, seems like there’s areas in the middle of Madrid that are blank on this map? Did you just mark Madrid as one dot? If so, I understand that each settlement equals one dot, but the existence of a major city like Madrid is obviously going to prevent any other settlements from propping up within it’s preexisting boundaries, so it seems a little misleading to not acknowledge that some of those blank bits are in fact urban areas, as if the political entity that is Madrid didn’t exist, each neighbourhood could well have been considered it’s own settlement.
If I misunderstood then I take it back, cool map either way.