America’s heartland not only feeds metropolitan centers with agricultural products and natural resources but with its people as well. Across the country, seaside metropolitan centers are adding new residents, while rural counties are seeing their populations decrease.
Read more: U.S. Population Change by County Mapped
Homo sapiens, like every other organism on our planet, has its own niche. A comfortable temperature for humans ranges from 17°C to 24°C (62.6 to 75.2 °F). Within that temperature span, the ideal, especially for young and older people, is 22 to 23 °C (72 to 73°F), but it could be some degrees lower with high humidity and some degrees higher with low humidity.
Read more: Human Climate Niche Mapped
Birthright citizenship (Jus soli) is a legislative policy under which any child born within a country’s border is automatically given citizenship in that country, even if their parents are not citizens. Currently, 35 nations in the world have unrestricted birthright citizenship.
Read more: Countries with Birthright Citizenship
At the beginning of 2022, the worst seemed to be behind us, ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries expected they could overcome the economic consequences of the pandemic in the coming year. But trouble does not come alone.
Read more: 22 Best Maps of 2022
The Cretaceous is the 3rd and final period of the Mesozoic Era geological period that continued from about 145 to 66 million years ago. It was a geologic period with a comparatively warm climate, resulting in high eustatic sea levels that shaped many shallow inland water bodies.In the Late Cretaceous, the many contemporary U.S. states were beneath the waves of the Western Interior Seaway.
Read more: North America 77 million years ago
The Alps are the highest (4809 meters or 2.99 miles) and most large mountain range system that belongs entirely in Europe, spreading approximately 1,210 kilometers or 750 miles across nine Alpine countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Liechtenstein, and Slovakia).
Read more: The Alps in maps
Palms perennial flowering plants of the Arecaceae are family. Currently, 181 genera with about 2.6 thousand species. Most palm trees are characterized by their broad, compound, evergreen leaves (fronds) at the top of an unbranched trunk. But palm species are pretty diverse.
Read more: Which country has the most palm species?
The most extraverted states in the U.S. are California and New York (50.9%). Texas, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and Illinois are also more extraverted than introverted. Of the eight most populous U.S. states, six are more extraverted. The most introverted state in the U.S. is West Virginia (53.3%) accompanied by Maine (53.2%), Alaska and Wyoming (52.9%).
Read more: Most extraverted and introverted U.S. states
Just under half of the global population (about 44%) is introverted. Europe has many countries that are considered introverted. Lithuania is the most introverted nation in Europe, while Albania is a nation of extroverts.
Read more: Most extraverted and introverted countries in Europe mapped
To the question, “if there are parts of neighboring countries that really belong to us,” 67% of Hungarians responded affirmatively. Greece (60%), Turkey (58%), Bulgaria (58%), and Russia (53%) also had a high agreement.
Read more: Map: Where Europeans Lay Claim to their Neighboring Countries
The pandemic accelerated mortality growth in 2020 and subsequent years of a magnitude not seen since WWII in Western Europe or the partition of the USSR in Eastern Europe. As a result, life expectancy at birth dropped from 2019 to 2020 in 27 out of 29 nations. Males in the United States and Lithuania had the most significant losses in life expectancy at birth during 2020 (2.2 and 1.7 years, respectively).
Read more: The depopulation of European countries
2021 is coming to an end. It’s time to recall the most popular and trending maps during year two of the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, they reflect what was of interest to our collective mind during an ongoing pandemic that greatly affected our habits, thinking, fears, and desires. Browse through the maps below to learn more about how our world will look like when the sea level rises, which country is the largest in the world based on the most suitable land area for human habitation, the geography of religion in Europe, and the distribution native tribes of North America. The most popular maps of the year 2021 range in order of increasing total views.
Read more: 21 Best Maps of 2021
The minimum wage in U.S. states varies from $15.20 per hour in D.C. to $8.65 per hour in Florida. The minimum wage is more than 3/4 of the living cost in the bulk of the West Coast and New England. Most of the South and some Mountain states have it the worst, where minimum wage covers about 50% of the living costs.
Read more: Which U.S. States Can You Live More Comfortably On A Minimum Wage?