Bern, in Switzerland, is the world’s most expensive city to take an UberX, averaging $42.80 per 10 kilometers. While Islamabad in Pakistan has the world’s cheapest UberX equivalent, offering an UberMini at $1.39 per 10 kilometers.
Read MoreFamous British mapmaker James Reynolds, who earlier created the magnificent world map dedicated to the distribution of human races, created another amazing map in 1850 – the Panoramic plan of the principal rivers and lakes.
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The U.S. military budget of the U.S. is the highest in the world and amounts to about 700 billion American dollars. It accounted for 36% of the world’s defense expenses. There are more than 1.3 million active-duty militaries and over 800 thousand reserves.
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Although the world’s population only just reached 1 billion in 1804, on the world’s political map, one can find many countries whose borders differ little from those of modern nations.
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Money and power walk hand in hand. Over half of the faces on the world’s coin and banknote designs belong to monarchs or heads of government, making up 30.24% and 20.74%, respectively.
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Over 800,000 new businesses are registered in the United States each year. The study reveals that people want more gyms in 15 cities, including El Paso, Los Angeles, and Portland. And in 14 cities, including Indianapolis and Minneapolis, car washes are in high demand.
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The study compared 26 languages to see how we express laughter on social networks. Some examples include Spanish: jajaja, Thai: 5555, Greek: xaxaxa, and Korean: kkkkk. Those expressions have been featured in “the laugh map”.
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If you enjoy looking at maps, you might sometimes wonder why a map looks the way it does. The circumstances leading to a particular demographic being more prevalent here, or a border being created there, can often be very confusing and exciting.
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The border between Europe and Asia is exceptional among continental boundaries because there is no significant physical distinction between the two continents except rivers and mountains east and north of the Black Sea. This boundary has been altered many times throughout history.
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Jewish communities have been expelled, again and again, for nearly two thousand years. Rome did it after two failed revolts. England, France, Spain, and Portugal did it within the same three centuries. Iraq, Yemen, and a dozen other countries did it within living memory.
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