Mappit.ai — every place has a story: the world's news on a live, interactive map

Mappit — every place has a story

The world's zeitgeist on a map. Mappit turns the world's news into a living, interactive map. An always-on news engine continuously reads what is happening in nearly two thousand places — its own crawler, which reads the world's publishers directly and supplies more than nine in ten new stories, working alongside frontier AI from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI in the jobs a crawler cannot do — and pins each story to the place it is about, on an interactive, time-aware map of the planet. Zoom into any city and you see what's happening there right now — grouped by topic, colored by mood, drawn only from publishers that clear a reliability bar and weighted toward the most trusted, marked with how many independent sources found it, and with every source link checked so the stories you read actually lead somewhere real. Scrub the calendar backwards and the map replays how the world looked on any past day, because each day's record is kept rather than replaced.

On top of that news layer, Mappit adds live views of the physical planet — earthquakes, wildfires, air quality, and weather — and a market layer that plots stock movements at companies' real headquarters. A built-in AI guide named Marco answers questions about any place and cites its sources — the news there and, from an atlas of open data, its population, borders and statistics, each figure with its year and source. Seven map apps show the numbers beside the news: they color the world's countries and America's states, counties and congressional districts by the economy, population, health, conflict and the 2026 US elections, from open data, and play them back through time. Anyone can browse for free; a subscription unlocks the ability to create and share your own places, collections, and data layers. And AI assistants can read Mappit directly: add https://mappit.ai/mcp to Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant, free and without an account.

The core idea is simple and durable: place + time is the most natural way to organize what is happening in the world, and the value compounds every day as the record grows. The map is the interface; the permanent, corroborated, geolocated corpus of world events beneath it is the substance.

Mappit requires JavaScript for the interactive map. Every public place, pin, collection and profile also has a crawlable page — see the sitemap.

Refugees hosted (by country of asylum) by countries, 2025

Refugees hosted — Conflict & Crisis, a map app on Mappit.

Unit: people.

Highest: Colombia 2.81 million, Germany 2.66 million, Turkey 2.39 million, Uganda 1.94 million, Iran 1.65 million.

Lowest: Vanuatu 0, St. Vin. and Gren. 0, Sierra Leone 0, Singapore 0, Solomon Is. 0.

Biggest rises since 2024: Côte d'Ivoire +3039.7% (2,377 to 74,630), Ghana +181.5% (7,479 to 21,050), Libya +175.8% (200,340 to 552,520).

Biggest falls since 2024: Haiti -100.0% (5 to 0), Iran -52.7% (3.49 million to 1.65 million), Bolivia -52.0% (19,592 to 9,406).

186 countries with data; median 20,218. 9 show their latest earlier value (up to five years old).

Source: UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database (api.unhcr.org/population/v1) (CC BY 4.0, UNHCR Terms of use for datasets: https://www.unhcr.org/what-we-do/data-and-publications/data-and-statistics/terms-use-datasets). Figures updated 9 October 2026.