About the map

The map of 3 million Telegram channels, explained

The TGScope map shows 3 million public Telegram channels on one plane. Each dot is a channel, and channels about the same subject sit next to each other, whatever their names or languages. The current version was built from the 10 October 2026 snapshot.

What does the map show?

Every dot is one public channel. Its colour is the channel's category, its size is the number of subscribers, and its position is what the channel is about. Zoom in and the labels go from 25 broad regions to 250 topics and then to 2,500 narrow subjects; past that, channel names and avatars appear. Click a dot to see the channel and open its stats. How to read the map.

Why are similar channels next to each other?

Because the map is drawn from meaning, not from links. We read each channel's public profile, turn it into a description of its subject and place channels with similar subjects close together. Two channels can be neighbours without ever mentioning or reposting each other. It is the same reading of channels that powers our semantic search. How the map is built.

What is on it?

3 million public Telegram channels with a username, in 24 categories and 24 main languages. Private channels, groups, bots and personal accounts are not on the map, and posts are not read. What we indexed and what each dot knows.

What the map shows about Telegram

37.1% of the channels on the map write in Russian, 13.6% in Arabic, 13.4% in Persian and 12.2% in English.
86.8% of all dots are channels with fewer than 20,000 subscribers. Channels with 1M+ subscribers are about 0.1%, yet they are the ones you see first.
The largest region is Movies / anime: 7.6% of the map. The crypto region has the highest share of channels with 100K+ subscribers: 6.9%.
About 50.2% of Ukrainian-language channels sit in neighbourhoods where most channels write in Russian, and none form a Ukrainian-majority area of their own. Regions and language islands.

Guides

How we put 3 million channels on one map

From a channel’s public profile to a dot on the map: meaning, flattening, area labels and tiles.

What we indexed for the map

Which channels are included, what each dot knows, 24 categories, 24 languages and subscriber bands.

How to read the Telegram channel map

Colours, dot sizes, three levels of labels, channel cards, search by meaning and shareable links.

The largest regions of the Telegram map

Which subjects take the most space, which languages form their own islands and where the giants are.

Telegram channel map: questions and answers

Missing channels, odd neighbours, updates, phones, privacy and why the data is not downloadable.

See it yourself

The map opens instantly in the browser, works on phones and needs no sign-up. Search by meaning to light up channels about any subject.

Open the map