Popes Roughly The World

Pope Francis' see to the US is the 10th fourth dimension a pope has visited the province since 1964. In that fourth dimension alone Poland has received equally many papal visits. The Washington Post's When Popes Hit the Road is a map of all papal visits to countries to a greater extent than or less the the world since the early on sixties.

The principal map allows yous to mouse-over whatsoever province on the map to stance how many times a pope has visited the country. The accompanying timeline besides allows yous to pick out whatsoever of the five popes since 1964 to stance where they bring traveled to a greater extent than or less the world. If yous scroll downwardly the page yous tin besides stance private maps for each of the five popes.

What most surprised me close the Washington Post's map is the set out of visits to the United States. Obviously the U.S. has a huge population precisely I've never actually idea of it equally a predominantly Roman Catholic country. There are many to a greater extent than plainly Roman Catholic countries, which yous powerfulness await pope's to see to a greater extent than regularly.


That's non to say that at that topographic point isn't involvement inwards Roman Catholicism inwards the United States. Google has released a Religion inwards America inwards Search Google Map which allows yous to stance the search involvement inwards the major religions inwards 2014-2015 inwards each major metropolitan area.


If yous human face at the search history for 'Catholic' at that topographic point appears to last quite uniform search involvement inwards the faith across the country. Some other religions look to bring less widespread appeal across the country. For example, if yous human face at the map of the Mormon religion, yous tin run into that most search involvement comes from Nevada in addition to the surrounding states.