Europe is one continent, but in development terms it behaves more like several. From Iceland and Norway at the top of global human development rankings to Moldova and war-affected Ukraine at the other end, the differences in living standards, education, and life expectancy are significant. Why does the gap exist, and where is it actually getting smaller?
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In Nevada County, Arkansas, more than one in three residents is counted as a Black Protestant adherent. Three maps show how concentrated that presence is across the Deep South, and how thin it becomes across the rest of the country.
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On the morning of November 3, 1921, Tokyo Asahi Shimbun readers found a large bird’s-eye map of the Japanese Empire folded inside their paper – Korea, Taiwan, Sakhalin, every railway in red, compiled by a former Army engineer. Nine days later, Japan’s delegates were in Washington D.C. for the Naval Conference that recognized Japan, for the first time, as one of five world powers.
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Metropolitan France holds 66.8 million people at an average of 123 per square kilometer (318 per square mile), but the regional range stretches from 41 (106/sq mi) to over 1,000 (2,687/sq mi).
Read MoreVicissitudes of history and variations of (geography on the Indian subcontinent have created an intricately patterned cultural fabric, woven but
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January is the deadliest month in 39 of the 50 U.S. states, but eight states peak in February, two in March, and one in December instead.
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King County, Texas recorded the highest Evangelical Protestant share of any US county in 2020, at 45.25 percent. That is higher than any state’s own average, Alabama included.
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At its largest, France’s colonial holdings covered close to a quarter of the world’s land. Two overlapping empires, a world war that pulled them apart piece by piece, and the departments, territories, and ocean claim still left of it today.
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Fifty BART stations, fifty very different paychecks. Here is what Census data shows about household income near each stop.
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Forest still covers close to a third of the planet, but that average hides enormous differences between countries. Here is how much forest covers every nation on Earth, and how the global total has changed since 1990.
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