The geography of the internet.

95% of everything you'll do online today travels through a cable on the floor of an ocean. Today we'll find out where.

Step 1 · The map

552 submarine cables. 1.4 million km of glass.

Hover a cable

Cable carrying 8–250 Tbps

Major landing station

Data: TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map (illustrative).

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The reveal

submarine cables landing on US shores.

More than the next three countries combined. The internet, geographically, has a center of gravity — and it's on the East Coast of America.

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