Asia - Vivid Maps

First ethnographic maps appeared in the 19th century to reveal the distribution of distinct ethnic groups and languages. They focus on parts of the colonial world in which the ethnic distribution was only coming to be studied by Western scientists and those regions of Europe and Asia where the geography of ethnicity differed with political borders.

Old maps

August 20, 2017 Alex

Portuguese Map of Asia (1630)

Map of Modern and Historical range of the elephants

Animals

July 13, 2017 Alex

Modern and Historical range of the elephants

Elephant populations have decreased by 62% over the last decade. The main historical factors behind elephants’ decline are the demand for ivory, habitat loss, habitat degradation, and fragmentation.

Demography Forecasts

July 6, 2017 Alex

Median Age by Country

Median age is the age that cuts a population into two numerically equivalent groups. One population group are younger than

Ethnic maps Historical Maps Video

June 18, 2017 Alex

The History of the Himalayas

Around 700 BCE, the first Himalayan civilizations appeared. The Tibetan Empire would dominate the region during much of the Middle

Humanity

May 18, 2017 Alex

Dominant Y-DNA haplogroups in Europe and the Middle East

The genetic history of Europe since the Upper Paleolithic is inseparable from that of broader Western Eurasia. By about fifty thousand years ago, a basal West Eurasian lineage had appeared out of the undifferentiated “non-African” ancestors of seventy thousand years.