Atlantropa was a gigantic engineering and colonization idea designed by the German architect Herman Sörgel to unite the continents of Europe and Africa through the partial evaporation of the Mediterranean Sea.
Read more: The Atlantropa project
Happiness connects with many life factors: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and the absence of corruption. Which country is the happiest?
Read more: The happiest countries in the world (2013 – 2020)
The maps of the United States show elevation, precipitation, and population density in the style of Joy Division.
Read more: The atlas of the United States in the style of Joy Division
The coronavirus pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19) was first known in Wuhan (Chinese province Hube) in December 2019. It was identified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020.
Read more: Coronavirus pandemic mapped
If all the ice covering Antarctica, Greenland, (Antarctica would make about 60 meters of sea-level rise, Greenland about 60 meters) and in mountain ice caps around the globe were to melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters (230 feet) and cover all seaside cities.
Read more: The world with a 70 meters sea-level rise
The Asian population in the United States grew to almost 12 million by 2000 and approximately doubled to 22.5 million by 2019 (7% of the U.S. population). The Asian population in America is predicted to touch 46 million by 2060, outdoing Hispanics in 2055.
Read more: Absence of Asians
North America contains the most significant number of oak species, with around 90 growing in the U.S., while Mexico has 160 species, of which 109 are endemic. In the United States, the highest diversity of oak species occurs in the eastern states.
Read more: Native Oak Tree Ranges in the United States
Hispanic are Americans who are the posterity of immigrants from Spain or Latin America. Hispanics generally are the leading minority ethnic group in the U.S., after non-Hispanic white Americans. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2020, Hispanics made up 18.7% (62.1 million) of the U.S. population.
Read more: Absence of Hispanic
Now that 2019 is almost done, we think it would be interesting to look backward at our most favored maps of the year.
Read more: 20 Best Maps of 2019
Black Americans compose the 2nd-largest racial group in the United States, after White Americans and Hispanic Americans. African Americans make up 14.6% (47.8 million) of the U.S. population. In recent decades, there has been an increase in U.S. counties with a predominance of blacks.
Read more: US African American Population by County
The maps are based on distance from cities, roads, railways, and airports. The green areas represent places where travel to the city, road and other transportation facilities can be measured in hundreds of kilometers.
Read more: Global Remoteness
The road system of the U.S. surpasses four million miles in combined length, plus numerous public line roads (8.3 million miles), other service roads, and off-road driving trails.
Read more: Remoteness
Many of the world’s cities will face sharply different climates by 2050. I tried to visualize how climate change will affect 6,000 world cities. London could feel as hot as Paris by 2050, with Paris’s climate more like San Francisco. San Francisco feels like Melbourne and New York City like Bologna (Italy). The climate of Moscow will be similar to that of Boston.
Read more: How hot cities could be in 2050