Political Maps show governmental and administrative borders of countries, provinces, states, and counties, the location of major cities, and other political units.
The Division of Korea started at the end of WWII in 1945. The USSR controlled the North of Korea, and the U.S. held South Korea. As a result, North and South Korea have been divided for more than 75 years. All this time, countries have been developing in opposite directions. Now the impact of this development is visible even from space.
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The U.S. is estimated to be the biggest threat to peace globally. The U.S. has over 800 military bases abroad in seventy countries, and it is involved in conflicts from Afghanistan to Sudan. Even 13% of U.S. citizens considered their nation the most significant threat to global peace.
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The U.S. is the largest arms exporter in the world, shipping more than $12 billion in arms to other nations. Russia is the 2nd most exporter ($6.15 billion). France ($2.16 billion) is the other nation exceeding $2 billion, with the rest of the significant players from Europe participating less.
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At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square kilometers) and a population of about 332 million people, the United States is the world’s 3d-largest country by total area and 3rd most populous country in the world. The country consists of 50 states, one federal district, 5 major unincorporated territories.
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In 200 CE, great religions spread along the trade roads of the Eastern Hemisphere. Meantime, one of the most populated cities in the entire world now thrives in the Western Hemisphere.
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Pangea was a mega continent that existed throughout the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It gathered from earlier continental parts about 335 million years ago, and it started to split apart about 175 million years ago. Much of Pangaea was in the southern hemisphere enclosed by a superocean, Panthalassa, in opposition to the modern Earth and its concentration of continental mass. Thus Pangaea was the most recent mega continent to have existed and the first to be reconstructed by scientists.
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Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 square kilometers or 1,073,500 square miles of the southern portion of the South American continent. Argentina is the 2nd-largest country in South America after Brazil, the 4th-largest country in the Americas, and the 8th-largest country globally.
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