The Plaice to Know

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By the numbers

Eleven years of No Such Thing As A Fish, turned into an atlas and then counted. Everything below is computed straight from the live catalogue, so it shifts a little every time a new episode is mapped.

2,011
places mapped
28,105
mentions mapped
139
countries & territories
943
episodes quoted

The most-mentioned places

Ranked by how many times the panel has actually brought each place up across the archive.

Where in the world

Top 15 countries by number of distinct places on the map. The show is, unsurprisingly, extremely British.

United Kingdom
694
United States
495
Australia
68
France
58
Canada
52
Germany
47
Italy
47
Japan
41
China
35
Russia
24
India
21
New Zealand
18
Switzerland
14
Ireland
14
Greece
14

Britain vs. the rest of the world

694 of the 2,011 places are in the UK, about 35% of the entire atlas.

UK 35%
Rest of world 65%

694 UK places ยท 1,317 everywhere else.

What kind of places

Every mapped place sorted into one of 16 categories by the pipeline.

City / Town
740
Natural Landmark
344
University & School
220
Monument & Historic
191
Museum & Gallery
106
Stadium & Venue
88
Org HQ
83
Brand HQ
57
Park & Garden
53
Transport Hub
52
Religious Site
23
Science Site
22
Hotel & Resort
16
Restaurant & Pub
7
Fictional & Space
6
Publication HQ
3

Real vs. imaginary

The map even pins the places you can't book a trip to: other planets, a whole galaxy, and the odd mythical creature.

Real 99.7%
0.3%

2,005 real places ยท 6 fictional or off-world.

When places first surfaced

The year each place was first mentioned on the show, a rough map of how the atlas filled in, episode by episode.

2014
125
2015
141
2016
136
2017
142
2018
162
2019
149
2020
189
2021
208
2022
190
2023
134
2024
178
2025
207
2026
50

Counts are recomputed from the dataset on every deploy. See how the atlas is built for the pipeline behind these figures.

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