Maps that explain the World
We know that the world ocean is bottomless and that the deepest trench in the world has almost 11 kilometers. We also know that the world ocean covers about 70 percent of our planet, making more than 2/3 of Earth’s surface unseen to us. But assume we obtained a way to drain oceans of our world, what would Earth’s exterior look like, exactly?
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In 1998, a bulk of U.S. workers were employed in manufacturing and less than 20 percent in health care and social assistance jobs. Twenty years later, those percentages have flipped.
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A list of the most common last names in every nation has been published, with Smith unsurprisingly taken top spot in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and many other English-speaking countries.
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More than half of the global population growth between nowadays and 2050 is expected to occur in Africa. Africa has the most significant rate of population increase among other continents.
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Most Israeli prime ministers were born outside the country. The Russian Empire is the birthplace of seven prime ministers of Israel.
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Scientists from NASA created the map of the height of the planet’s forest. The map was generated using 2.5 million by laser pulse measurements from space.
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The Northeastern United States, the California coast, Deep North, Midwest, and Florida have the highest life expectancy.
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The maps are based on distance from cities, roads, railways, and airports. The green areas represent places where travel to the city, road and other transportation facilities can be measured in hundreds of kilometers.
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Without meaningful cuts to carbon emissions and land-use changes, humankind is currently on the path to an RCP8.5-like scenario unless large intergovernmental efforts are put into place. The map visualizes the heating of the Arctic as a mountain.
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There are now 47 million millionaires spread throughout the globe, but the U.S. is home to the enormous majority of them, with about 19 million millionaires. That’s a colossal 40 percent of the world’s total.
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