A survey of more than 25 thousand people in ten Arabic nations, organized by Arab Barometer and Princeton University, discovered that trust in religious leaders decreased in the Arab world in recent years. Moreover, the proportion of people considering themselves as “not religious” rose from 11 percent in 2012-2014 to 18 percent this year.
Read more: The fast growth of irreligion in the Arab World
The Arab World consists of the 22 Arab nations: Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen). It combines a population of around 423 mln people. The preponderance religion is Islam.
Read more: Tearing Arab World apart
Maps have been one of the most significant human creativity for millenary. People have invented and used maps to describe, clarify, and navigate their route within the world. Here is an atlas of the most famous maps, from the prehistoric period to modern times.
Read more: How the World was Imagined: First Maps and Atlases
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania may be small, but their history and culture are anything but. Learn about the quirky, cultural, and historical ways to divide the Baltic States.
Read more: Tearing the Baltic states apart
A journey into Nordic-American heritage: discover the waves of migration from Scandinavia, the communities they formed, and where their descendants live today.
Read more: Where Scandinavian Roots Took Hold in America?
The term “big cat” is are commonly used to relate to any of the five species of the genus Panthera: lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard. Except for the snow leopard, these big cat species can roar. A more broad interpretation of the term covers species outside of Panthera including the cougar, clouded leopard, Sunda clouded leopard, cheetah and even the several lynxes species. However, these added species also do not roar.
Read more: Distribution of the Big Cats mapped
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a milestone in civil rights and labor law in the U.S. that bans discrimination based on race, color, national origin, faith, and sex. It forbids the unequal use of voter registration necessities and racial discrimination in schools, work, and public services.
Read more: The US House vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964
World military expenditure is measured to have been nearly $2 trillion in 2019, the highest level since 1988, and it continues to grow. Global military spending increased in each of the five years from 2015, has declined firmly from 2011 until 2014 following the world financial crisis.
Read more: Maps of countries by military expenditure
According to the U.S. Forest Service report, more than 640 various species of trees in the United States, 186 of which are endemic. Maps of tree diversity in the U.S. include the total species richness and endemic species of trees.
Read more: The diversity of trees in the US mapped
One of the most significant disadvantages of the Mercator projection is that it distorts the actual sizes of territories. The atlas below shows the actual size of all countries and dependencies by area.
Read more: The largest to smallest landmasses in the world mapped
Since the U.S. Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act in 1968, wealth amongst white households has significantly increased while wealth in black households has frozen. HowMuch.net took a glance at the data concerning the median income gap within Black and white households in the U.S.
Read more: The racial income gap in the United States mapped
This map, at first glance, similar to a medieval map of the world ‘mappa mundi’, is the topologist’s map of the world, showing international borders, and nothing else.
Read more: The topologist’s map of the world
The first Portuguese settlement was founded after the signing “Tordesilhas Treat” in 1532. Colonization began in 1534 when King John III of Portugal split the territory into the fifteen private and autonomous Captaincy Colonies of Brazil.
Read more: Territorial evolution of Brazil