Maps that explain the World
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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Frans Blok has created a detailed inverse map of the world, where the deepest spots in the ocean become the highest mountains and the highest mountains become the deepest part of the ocean.
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Engraved uncolored comparative view of the known Lengths of the Principal Rivers in the World.
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Compare mountain vegetation on the Himalaya, Andes, Alps, and Lappland, Teneriffa, Chimborazo, Mont Blanc, and Sulitjelma (Norway).
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The giraffe is a genus of African even-toed ungulate mammals, the tallest living terrestrial animals, and the largest ruminants. Giraffes
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The most googlied are countries Italy, Spain, Australia, Greece and France.
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In most U.S. states cheaper to rent than own property.
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The map below shows a shocking fact, the United States (population – 327.2 million) has the same number of murders
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