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r/geopolitics

Geopolitics: Geopolitical news, analysis, & discussion. Geopolitics is focused on the relationship between politics and territory. Through geopolitics we attempt to analyze and predict the actions and decisions of nations, or other forms of political power, by means of their geographical characteristics and location in the world. In a broader sense, geopolitics studies the general relations between countries on a global scale. Here we analyze local events in terms of the bigger, global picture. Founded 2008 · 789.2K members

791.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.3K upvotes, which works out to 18 per 1,000 members.

18peak upvotes per 1,000 members
791.7Kmembers
14.3Kbest post
5.1Kmost comments
202posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

95%
Link 95% Image 2% Text 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

News 65 Analysis 9 Current Events 6 Opinion 4 Perspective 3 Video 2 :snoo_feelsbadman: Missing Submission Statement 1 Maps 1 :snoo_feelsbadman: Not Exact Title 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

BBC asks Chinese ambassador to the UK explanation regarding footage of prisoners being loaded onto trains.

↑ 14.3K 💬 625 video 2020

Trump Threatens Zelensky During Tense Live Meeting: 'Make A Deal Or We’re Out’

↑ 7K 💬 1.3K link 2025

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

↑ 4K 💬 151 link 2025

Trump Confirms The United States Just Finished Bombing Fordow, Iran

↑ 3.9K 💬 889 link 2025

Trump claims Zelensky started the war

↑ 3.7K 💬 557 link 2025

Trump’s letter to Erdogan

↑ 3.5K 💬 225 image 2019

Trump Gives Stephen Bannon Access to National Security Council

↑ 3.4K 💬 176 link 2017

India, Japan and Australia begin discussions on launching a trilateral 'Supply Chain Resilience Initiative' (SCRI) to reduce dependency on China.

↑ 3.1K 💬 161 link 2020

Israel has launched military strikes on Iran

↑ 2.7K 💬 925 link 2025

Germany refuses to turn a 'blind eye' to China, teams up with Australia

↑ 2.6K 💬 105 link 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/geopolitics, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/geopolitics?
r/geopolitics ("Geopolitics: Geopolitical news, analysis, & discussion") describes itself this way: Geopolitics is focused on the relationship between politics and territory. Through geopolitics we attempt to analyze and predict the actions and decisions of nations, or other forms of political power, by means of their geographical characteristics and location in the world. In a broader sense, geopolitics studies the general relations between countries on a global scale. Here we analyze local events in terms of the bigger, global picture. It was founded in 2008 and has 789.2K members.
How many members does r/geopolitics have?
r/geopolitics has about 791.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 202 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.3K upvotes, which is 18 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/geopolitics?
"BBC asks Chinese ambassador to the UK explanation regarding footage of prisoners being loaded onto trains." reached 14.3K upvotes and 625 comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/geopolitics.
What subreddits are similar to r/geopolitics?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/geopolitics?
Of the posts we hold, 95% are link posts and 2% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/geopolitics?
Across 202 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 09:00 UTC (2.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/geopolitics?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/geopolitics has 2.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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