What Telegram is about: the largest regions of the channel map
Movies / anime is the largest region of the TGScope map: 7.6% of the 3 million Telegram channels on it, according to the 10 October 2026 version. Here are the 23 largest regions, what language they speak, how many big channels they hold and what sits next to them.
Which subjects take the most space?
The three largest regions are Movies / anime (7.6%), Ukraine / war (7.1%) and Fashion / clothing (6.2%). Regions are areas of the map cut by position and named after their most typical topics, so a region is a neighbourhood of similar channels, not a category. Click a region to open the map there.
The 23 largest regions of the map. 2 adult regions are left out. “Big channels” is the share with 100K+ subscribers.
| Region | Share of the map | Main language | Main category | Big channels | Next to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movies / animeTop channels | 7.6% | Russian 50.2% | — | 2.2% | Personal / lifestyle, Gaming / streaming |
| Ukraine / warTop channels | 7.1% | Russian 83.3% | News 51.1% | 3.8% | Entrepreneurship / cars, Politics / conspiracy |
| Fashion / clothingTop channels | 6.2% | Russian 32.9% | Marketplace 40.9% | 0.8% | Fashion / beauty, Recipes / cooking |
| Crypto / tradingTop channels | 5.3% | English 40.6% | Crypto 55.8% | 6.9% | Betting / gambling, Gaming / streaming |
| Learning / studentsTop channels | 4.9% | Russian 29.1% | Education 85.2% | 2.2% | Students / university, Employment / career |
| Gaming / streamingTop channels | 4.9% | Russian 46.2% | Games 40.7% | 2.4% | Betting / gambling, VPN / tech |
| Personal / lifestyle | 4.8% | Russian 87.2% | Blog 43.2% | 2.1% | Movies / anime, Fashion / beauty |
| Students / universityTop channels | 4.2% | Persian 47.8% | Education 74.3% | 1.4% | Learning / students, Politics / conspiracy |
| Fashion / beautyTop channels | 4.1% | Russian 70.3% | Beauty 37.6% | 0.8% | Personal / lifestyle, Recipes / cooking |
| Personal growth / self improvementTop channels | 4.1% | Russian 50.6% | — | 1.1% | Quotes / inspiration, Football / fitness |
| VPN / techTop channels | 4% | Russian 29.2% | Tech 52.7% | 4% | Betting / gambling, Gaming / streaming |
| Politics / conspiracyTop channels | 3.9% | English 22.2% | News 33.2% | 1.1% | Football / fitness, Students / university |
| Middle East / politicsTop channels | 3.8% | Persian 50.8% | News 59.8% | 3% | Students / university, Persian / Iranian |
| Islam / QuranTop channels | 3.7% | Arabic 59.8% | Religion 74.3% | 0.5% | Islam / spirituality, Faith / Christianity |
| Football / fitnessTop channels | 3.5% | Russian 58.7% | Sports 47.1% | 2% | Politics / conspiracy, Personal growth / self improvement |
| Quotes / inspirationTop channels | 3.4% | Arabic 68.7% | — | 1.2% | Personal growth / self improvement, Faith / Christianity |
| Entrepreneurship / carsTop channels | 3.4% | Russian 75.6% | — | 2.3% | Ukraine / war, VPN / tech |
| Employment / careerTop channels | 2.6% | Uzbek 37.4% | — | 2.2% | Learning / students, Ukraine / war |
| Islam / spiritualityTop channels | 2.6% | Arabic 76.1% | Religion 88.1% | 0.9% | Islam / Quran, Faith / Christianity |
| Betting / gambling | 2.4% | English 36.6% | Betting 46.8% | 3% | Gaming / streaming, VPN / tech |
| Persian / IranianTop channels | 2.2% | Persian 76.3% | — | 2.9% | Faith / Christianity, Personal growth / self improvement |
| Faith / ChristianityTop channels | 1.8% | Arabic 28.2% | Events 41.5% | 1% | Islam / spirituality, Persian / Iranian |
| Recipes / cookingTop channels | 1.7% | Russian 76% | Food 54.4% | 1.5% | Fashion / beauty, Personal / lifestyle |
Where are the big channels?
In the crypto / trading region 6.9% of channels have 100K+ subscribers, more than anywhere else on the map; VPN / tech (4%) and Ukraine / war (3.8%) follow. At the other end, only 0.5% of channels in Islam / Quran and 0.8% in fashion / beauty are that big: these subjects are run by many small channels rather than a few giants.
Five of the ten largest channels on the whole map belong to crypto games and apps. The largest dots are:
- Hamster Kombat Announcement — 24.3M subscribers
- Blum: All Crypto – One App — 17.9M subscribers
- tapswap community — 12M subscribers
- Proxy MTProto — 11.8M subscribers
- Telegram Tips — 11.6M subscribers
- Pavel Durov — 11M subscribers
What sits next to what?
Neighbours show how Telegram's subjects blend. Crypto / trading borders betting / gambling and gaming / streaming: tap-to-earn games, betting and crypto sit side by side. VPN / tech, where Telegram's own channels and proxy channels live, sits next to betting / gambling and gaming / streaming. Islam / Quran borders Islam / spirituality and faith / Christianity, so faith channels form one continent across religions.
Which languages form islands of their own?
The most single-language region is personal / lifestyle (87.2% Russian). Looking at all 250 topic areas, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Persian channels mostly live among their own: more than half sit in areas where their language is the majority. Uzbek channels are 5.3% of the map, but only 16% of them sit in Uzbek-majority areas. Ukrainian-language channels never form a majority anywhere: 50.2% of them are in areas where most channels write in Russian.
Share of each language's channels that sit in topic areas where 60%+ of channels write in that language. English is left out: labels never mark English.
| Language | Share of the map | In its own areas | Most common other area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 5% | 77.9% | Russian 2.9% |
| Russian | 37.1% | 75.1% | Arabic 0.6% |
| Arabic | 13.6% | 56.9% | Russian 2.2% |
| Persian | 13.4% | 56% | Russian 4.8% |
| Italian | 1% | 39.7% | Russian 10.5% |
| German | 0.8% | 35% | Russian 9.4% |
| Uzbek | 5.3% | 16% | Russian 12.8% |
| French | 0.8% | 7.8% | Arabic 10.5% |
| Spanish | 2% | 0% | Russian 10.1% |
| Ukrainian | 1.9% | 0% | Russian 50.2% |
| Indonesian | 0.9% | 0% | Arabic 19.2% |
- All shares are counted over the dots of the 10 October 2026 version of the map: 3 million public channels.
- Each channel belongs to the region whose centre is nearest to it on the map. Region names are the map's own labels. How labels are made.
- Language and category come from the channel profile and are assigned by a language model.