Unmapped areas of the ocean floor
There is more information about the surface of Mars than there is about the Earth’s seafloor. Only 20% of the ocean floor has so far been mapped in detail.
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What if “Did Not Vote” were a candidate in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election?
Joe Bide has been elected the 46th president of the U.S., In 2020, he has enlarged Hilary Clinton’s record from 51 to 162 electoral votes, while Donald Trump has raised from 16 to 98 votes. But many Americans still didn’t vote. What if “I didn’t vote” ran as a U.S. presidential candidate in the 2020 election?
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The U.S. Archipelago
The U.S. population distribution is uneven. This uneven distribution of the population is due to historical and geophysical factors (climate, landforms, soil conditions). Approximately 40% of the U.S. population lived in counties on the shore. Nowadays, population decline hit most nonmetro U.S. counties in the Great Plains. Speedy population increases in nonmetro counties nearest to large-sized metro areas and recreation regions with beautiful landscapes.
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The Craziest Corn Mazes Across the U.S.
In 1993, theater executive producer Don Frantz took the garden maze’s elegant European tradition and attached showbiz glamour and a tremendous sense of scale. Modern GPS technologies made it realizable to create hard-to-crack puzzles in complicated patterns.
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The World’s 100 Smallest Countries, Side by Side
The Vatican is the smallest country in the world with at just 0.19 sq. mi. (6.82 sq. km.). The 2nd tiniest nation in the world is Monaco at 0.78 sq. mi. (2.80 sq. km.) For comparison, the biggest country in the world is Russia, measures in at 6.6 million sq. mi. (17.1 sq. km.).
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Differences between the US and EU mapped
The United States and the European Union are the two most developed country/supranational organization. But the US and the EU are not only partners but also competitors, especially in the worldwide marketplace.
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The Oldest School In Every Country Mapped
Some educational institutions have survived pandemics, wars, authoritarian regimes, and economic depressions and still operate today. These maps show the longest-surviving schools and universities in every country globally, dating as far back as 141 BC.
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The Partition of Antarctica
Antarctica United States size comparison. Specialists from 30 nations live on about 70 bases, with a population of 4000 in summer. There have been 11 human births in Antarctica. The Antarctic Treaty (1961) banned any military activity and exploring for mineral resources. But in 2048, a treaty that bans all activities in Antarctica is set to expire.
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Germany is still divided by east and west
30 years after the German reunion, there are still boundaries separating East and West Germany, although those are no political borders anymore.
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The World’s Forests Mapped
A forest is an area of land covered by trees. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, forests cover some 3.9 billion hectares (or 9.6 billion acres), which is about 30% of the Earth’s land surface.
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