For the first time in its history, California’s growth story is changing dramatically. Using maps and data, we explore how America’s most populous state is transforming and what it means for its future.
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Imagine taking Asia’s bustling megacities and dropping them into Europe. This thought-provoking map reshapes our understanding of urban scale, showing just how massive today’s largest metropolitan areas really are.
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About 95% of Egypt’s 107 million people live along the Nile and in the delta. Explore maps showing how Egypt’s population density is shaped by the river’s life-giving waters.
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What happens when we split the world not by borders, but by people and wealth? Two maps show the world divided into equal population and GDP regions, revealing deep imbalances in global distribution. Let’s take a closer look!
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Indonesia consists of more than 17,000 islands. It is the world’s largest island country and the 14th-largest country by land area, at about 1.9 million sq km (0.7 million sq. ml). With over 268 million people, it is the world’s 4th-most-populous nation and the most populous Muslim-majority nation.
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More than half of Nevada’s 3.2 million people live in the Las Vegas area, with Clark County alone housing about 2.34 million. New stats and local insights ahead.
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Greenland is vast, frozen, and nearly empty – except for one small area. A new map shows that 53% of Greenland’s population lives on just 0.036% of its land.
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Most U.S. states have seen their population centers shift over the past century. California’s center is now closer to its southern coast and Bay Area than it was in the 1900s. Texas moved southeast as its big cities expanded. Florida’s center went south down the peninsula. Arizona’s shifted toward Phoenix. New Mexico’s moved toward Albuquerque. A handful of states like Wyoming, Vermont, and Rhode Island have barely budged from where they started.
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France’s current population is about 66 million and is equal to 0.84% of the total world population. The population density of the country is 119 per square kilometer (309 people per square mile).
Read MoreA population density of Europe named for similarly dense regions of the United States. Population density of the United States
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