Maps that explain the World
View of the United States from San-Francisco is an illustration showing how Silicon Valley residents see the rest of the U.S. Designed by Kirby Scudder, it was first published as the cover for the Pacific Ventures (1986).
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Manhattan has changed substantially over the past 400 years. With the millions of people who live there and the many more who commute to the island on a daily basis, Manhattan has become a metropolis of concrete, culture, and big-city life.
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From an analysis carried out by Europcar on over 47 million social media posts, America has come out top for the most popular road trip destinations in the world.
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The global prostitution industry makes US$186 billion per year, according to Havocscope. But how does this billion dollar industry trickle down to the workers who make it possible?
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Human Development Index is usually presented on a national level. However, the Human Development Index can vary a lot within a country.
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1st ReichThe small map dated 1914 shows the area ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm I, who has proclaimed Emperor in Versailles
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According to the World Federation, in 26 countries, deaf people are not allowed to drive a car.
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Between c. 7000 – 3000 BCE the Sahara was far from the desert it is today. It was covered in grassland and dotted with shallow lakes. Ancient humans used its waterways to travel up through Africa. Its legacy remains today in rock art and dried riverbeds. This map is a speculative reconstruction of this lost world.
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In most countries, the black population is concentrated where there were originally plantations and where slaves went. On the other hand, Ecuador’s black population in Esmereldas came predominantly from a shipwreck of slaves meant to go to Panama, and those shipwrecked established a claimed republic.
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French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic and the only overseas country of France. It is included of 118 geographically scattered islands and atolls extending over an expanse of more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi) in the South Pacific Ocean. Its total land area is 4,167 square kilometers (1,609 sq miles).
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