Brazil loses roughly 60,000 people to homicide each year. While Amapá and Bahia struggle with rates above 44 per 100,000, São Paulo has dropped to just 7.9. The state-by-state differences are enormous, and tracking them from 1980 to 2021 shows how unevenly violence has changed across the country.
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Only 5% of global landmass remains untouched by human activity. These maps show uninhabited areas across nine countries, plus global wilderness zones with minimal human footprint. Even in densely populated Netherlands, green spaces persist where no one lives.
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In Stewart County, Georgia, 99.6% of workers drive to their jobs. In Manhattan, just 7.6% do. This map using Census Bureau data from 2017-2021 shows which American counties are most car-dependent and where alternatives exist. Eight counties exceed 98% driving rates, all in rural areas. Nine counties fall below 50%, concentrated in dense urban centers with transit systems.
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Which US states saw household debt skyrocket relative to income over the past 25 years? The answer might surprise you. Delaware leads with a stunning 105% increase, while some states like California actually saw their ratios improve.
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Latest long-term global growth projections to 2050 for 32 of the largest economies in the world, accounting for around 85%
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New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period initiating with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and finishing with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763.
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The Radio is most trusted media source in the Europe Union, while the social media was the least trusted source.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the territory of Louisiana by the U.S. from France in 1803. In return for 15 million dollars (~$18 per square mile), the U.S.obtained 828 thousand square miles or 2.14 million square kilometers. But, in reality, before purchase France only controlled a small part of this territory, mostly inhabited by Native Americans.
Read MoreIn less than a century, the United States transformed from a small coastal republic into a continental nation. Through the Louisiana Purchase, annexations, treaties, and wars, it gained territories stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific by 1853.
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Looking at a rock means looking at time itself. Every stone formation around us formed through billions of years of pressure, heat, and transformation. Three remarkable global geological maps let you explore this planetary memory, from the depths of ocean trenches to the highest mountain ranges.
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