The Pacific Ocean is hard to imagine—it covers nearly a third of Earth’s surface and is deeper than Everest is tall. With maps for scale, here’s how it stacks up against Russia, the continents, and the rest of the planet.
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Read more: Dialects of ArabicNumber of vegetarian restaurants per 1,000,000 inhabitants.
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The 1st roads on the British Isles appeared during the Iron Age. Then the network of engineered roads was extended during the Roman colonization. The most intensive road construction has taken place from the 1950s to the 1990s. Today the UK has a road system totaling approximately 262.3 thousand mi (422.1 thousand km) of paved
Read more: The UK public transport system mappedThe U.S. has nearly twice as many guns per 100 people as the next closest, USA — 88.8 guns per
Read more: Number of guns guns per 100 people by countryNASA and the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry of Japan together declared the release of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal
Read more: Global Digital Elevation MapOver the past 60 years, the number of road deaths in developed countries has declined significantly. In most developed countries, every 100,000 vehicles in 1950 were responsible for 100 deaths, but by 2010 they were responsible for only 5 deaths.
Read more: Road fatalities per 100,000 motor vehiclesThe Fragile States Index is a yearly report issued by The New Humanitarian. The Index tries to evaluate countries’ vulnerability to conflict or collapse.
Read more: Fragility in the WorldRedditor usvsth3m split the world into 200 nations with equal populations. Each country contains about 1/200th of the world’s population
Read more: Another take on dividing the world into equal-population countries