Travelers visiting Europe are usually recommended to travel by train rather than plane or car. Trains are considered safe, fast
Read more: The remarkable distances you can travel on a European train in less than a dayThe first Starbucks store opened in 1971 (Seattle, Washington). The company experienced fast growth in 1997, with locations around the United States, Japan, and Singapore.
Read more: How Starbucks is taking over the worldRed – Where both men and women can be married to more than one partner.Blue – Where a man can
Read more: The countries that allow polygamyWhen it comes to work, not all countries take the equivalent approach. Some have more vacation days, some tend to work shorter hours, and others just retire at a younger age. So, whether you are a workaholic or prefer easy living, this map/graph pair will point you toward your like-minded peers.
Read more: Working Hard or Hardly Working?Renewable water resources it’s the long-term average water availability for a country in cubic kilometers from groundwater recharge, precipitation, and
Read more: Total Renewable Water by CountryMore than 80% of the surface of Greenland is covered with ice (water frozen into a solid state). Countries by
Read more: Percentage of the total area made up by waterThe world has become more positive: 40% think their nation is directed in the right way. Unemployment remains the biggest
Read more: Where people are “satisfied with the way things are going in our country”London, the South East and the East of England have greater surname heterogeneity than the rest of the United Kingdom. Big urban areas attract foreign and domestic migration and produce a large and ethnically diverse society, with high population mixing, and consequently form a higher diversity of surnames.
Read more: The most common surname in each UK provinceThe map of Europe changed considerably after the WWI. Germany lost about 10 percent of its territory to its neighbors.
Read more: Present days borders over 1937’s countries92 percent of the population breathes air with harmful levels of pollutants, that’s why 100 thousand Americans die every year
Read more: Dirtiest Fine Particulate Matter Month by US CountyUnited States Census Bureau officially identified 5 races: White American, Black American, Native American, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander.
Read more: Mapping the Most Common RacesThe total area of croplands is 1.53 billion hectares of which 399 million hectares in a total area available for irrigation and 467 million hectares is annualized irrigated areas.
Read more: Crops Area by CountryWomen and youth hit hardest by unemployment. Nearly half of all the world’s youth (621 million) are not employed, in
Read more: The unemployment rate in % of the population