China has grown the world’s greatest trading country, replacing the U.S. from its usual dominance as a trading partner for other nations around the globe.
Read more: The US-China trade war: Who dominates global trade?
The U.S. is a vast country. A wide range of topography, climates, culture, political views, social norms, traditions can vary significantly from state to state. It is not surprising that every state has its unique manner of cooking and some food varieties you would never expect!
Read more: Weirdest Food From Every State Mapped
North America contains the most significant number of oak species, with around 90 growing in the U.S., while Mexico has 160 species, of which 109 are endemic. In the United States, the highest diversity of oak species occurs in the eastern states.
Read more: Native Oak Tree Ranges in the United States
Hispanic are Americans who are the posterity of immigrants from Spain or Latin America. Hispanics generally are the leading minority ethnic group in the U.S., after non-Hispanic white Americans. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2020, Hispanics made up 18.7% (62.1 million) of the U.S. population.
Read more: Absence of Hispanic
Pamphlets from1920 spread by the Hungarian Government to foreign locals disagreeing about the Treaty of Trianon. In this way, the Government made an effort to explain what this would converte to if the same thing happened to France, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the German Empire.
Read more: Hungarian Maps From 1920 Protesting The Treaty of Trianon
The face of our planet is shifting continuously by geological processes. Splitting supercontinent Pangaea, these tectonic plates have arranged the planet’s surface into 7 continent landmasses and 5 oceans. Here is a visualization of the significant events on planet Earth through its four billion year history.
Read more: The History Of The Earth From Formation To Present Day
The United States has had a military presence worldwide, from the practically first day of its sovereignty. The U.S. has been implicated in many foreign invasions during its history. The United States invaded twenty-two countries just in the last 20 years.
Read more: All the Countries Attacked by the U.S.
The transport network in Russia is one of the world’s most large transport systems. The national web of roads and railways and airways stretches about 7,700 kilometers (4,800 miles) from the city of Kaliningrad in the west to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in the east.
Read more: The transport network of Russia mapped
Now that 2019 is almost done, we think it would be interesting to look backward at our most favored maps of the year.
Read more: 20 Best Maps of 2019
Nowadays, wine is the most popular alcoholic beverage drunk worldwide. Generally produced from fermented grape extract, many civilizations have created and liked wine for thousands of years. The starting of wine production can be traced back to 6 thousand years BCE from the territories where Georgia and Armenia are now located.
Read more: Wine around the world
Black Americans compose the 2nd-largest racial group in the United States, after White Americans and Hispanic Americans. African Americans make up 14.6% (47.8 million) of the U.S. population. In recent decades, there has been an increase in U.S. counties with a predominance of blacks.
Read more: US African American Population by County
In 1402, Korean scholars completed a world map showing the full Old World – Africa with ~35 place names, Europe with over 100, China at the center, and Japan to the east. It depicted Africa’s southern tip nearly a century before Vasco da Gama’s voyage.
Read more: Korea’s 1402 World Map Showed Africa and Europe Before Vasco da Gama
he estimated average GDP per capita of all of the world’s countries is Int$18,381 (2019). Luxembourgers have the highest per capita gross domestic product in the world. According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2021, the GDP per capita in Luxembourg amounted to about US$122,740.
Read more: Nominal and per Capita GDP Cartogram with subdivisions