Maps of the US
In Stewart County, Georgia, 99.6% of workers drive to their jobs. In Manhattan, just 7.6% do. This map using Census Bureau data from 2017-2021 shows which American counties are most car-dependent and where alternatives exist. Eight counties exceed 98% driving rates, all in rural areas. Nine counties fall below 50%, concentrated in dense urban centers with transit systems.
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Which US states saw household debt skyrocket relative to income over the past 25 years? The answer might surprise you. Delaware leads with a stunning 105% increase, while some states like California actually saw their ratios improve.
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New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period initiating with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and finishing with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the territory of Louisiana by the U.S. from France in 1803. In return for 15 million dollars (~$18 per square mile), the U.S.obtained 828 thousand square miles or 2.14 million square kilometers. But, in reality, before purchase France only controlled a small part of this territory, mostly inhabited by Native Americans.
Read MoreIn less than a century, the United States transformed from a small coastal republic into a continental nation. Through the Louisiana Purchase, annexations, treaties, and wars, it gained territories stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific by 1853.
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In South Dakota, there are nearly four cattle for every person. Nebraska supports over six million head of cattle with just two million residents. Across the Great Plains and Prairie Provinces, a geographic belt exists where bovines genuinely outnumber humans.
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wo states grow nearly two-thirds of America’s Christmas trees, but the geography gets even more specific than that. When you zoom into county-level data, a handful of places emerge as the real centers of this seasonal industry.
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A sitcom or situational comedy is a genre centered on a bounded group of characters who mainly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms originated in radio but nowadays are found predominantly on television as one of its prevalent narrative forms.
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SaxManSteve The most popular advanced education degrees among the American Governors and Canadian First Ministers: • Law – 25 states/provinces
Read MoreThe solar power potential of the U.S. Annual average solar resource data are shown for a tilt = latitude collector.
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