After forty-six days of public testing, Apple’s new map expanded to Spain and Portugal on June 7, 2021:

This is the eleventh time that Apple has expanded its new map since its public launch thirty-two months ago in September 2018:

Spain and Portugal are the fifth and sixth countries to receive Apple’s new map. They’re also the first predominately non-English-speaking countries to receive it.

As of this latest expansion, Apple’s new map now covers 12.9% of Earth’s land area...

...and 6.4% of the global population:

And for the first time, Apple’s new map now covers more than 500 million people worldwide.

In terms of land area, five of Apple’s earlier expansions were larger than Expansion #11—while the other five were smaller. So depending upon how you look at it, this latest expansion is either Apple’s sixth largest—or sixth smallest—to date:

Expansion #11 arrives 179 days after Expansion #10—which is the longest amount of time between expansions to date:

On average, Apple has been expanding its new map every 90 days.

On June 7, 2021, Apple also released “Look Around” for Spain and Portugal:

At WWDC 2021, Apple announced that Italy and Australia will be the next countries to receive Apple’s new map—with Italy likely arriving first (given its ordering on Apple’s slide):

Apple is likely to start publicly testing Expansion #12 sometime between now and October:

That said, the gap between Expansion #10’s release and the start of Expansion #11’s testing was Apple’s second longest. And whenever we see long gaps in expansion activity, a series of expansions usually follows.

A good example of this is what happened in 2019: after Expansion #3’s release, we saw a 101 day gap until Apple started testing Expansion #4. But then after this gap, Apple released Expansions #4, #5, #6, and #7 in relatively quick succession:

A similar situation occurred last year: we saw a 135 day gap between Expansion #8’s release and the start of Expansion #9’s testing. But then after this gap, Apple released Expansions #9 and #10 in relatively quick succession.

All of this is to say that we can expect Apple to start testing Expansion #12 relatively soon.