Maps that explain the World
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.
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Happiness connects with many life factors: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and the absence of corruption. Which country is the happiest?
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The time it takes to learn a language depends on many factors: How close the new language is to your native language or other languages you know; How complex the language is; How many hours each week you devote to learning the language; The language learning resources available to you; Your motivation.
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The idea of race as a rough classification of anatomically modern humans has a problematic history. Before the 19th centuries, the word ‘race’ was used in the sense of “ethnic group” and got its contemporary meaning in the area of anthropology only from the mid-nineteenth century.
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The global sea-level rise started around the beginning of the 20th century. From 1900 to 2016, the average sea level on the planet rose by 16–21 centimeters or 6.3–8.3 inches. According to the extreme scenario, an increase in sea level can be presumed as 189 centimeters (6.2 feet) by 2100.
Read moreOne of the most common maps of the world is in fact, one of the most misleading. The size of
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People are distributed on the planet extremely unevenly. Most of the people on the planet live in subtropical and tropical latitudes. The largest number of people are concentrated in Asia. These maps illustrate the world population by latitude and longitude.
Read moreWikipedia is a multilingual open online encyclopedia designed and managed by volunteer supervisors. According to Alexa, Wikipedia is one of the most popular internet websites in the world. Wikipedia.org contains almost 60 million pages, which are visited by about 2 billion unique users every month.
Read moreThe map below shows countries where the overall average life expectancy is over 80. Nowadays, the average life expectancy at birth in the world is about 71 years.
Read moreIn humanity’s history, several technologies have resulted in such broad social and financial changes in a comparatively short period of
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