Maps that explain the World
Map of all of the surface of Earth. Maps of continents, countries, regions, and cities.
The coronavirus pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19) was first known in Wuhan (Chinese province Hube), in December 2019. It was identified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. As of 25 March, more than 453 thousand cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in more than 190 nations, resulting in more than 20.5 thousand deaths.
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Life expectancy is a demographic measure of the average time an individual is expected to live based on the year of its birth, its current age, and other demographic factors, including gender.
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There are 5,586 companies in the world whose age exceeds two hundred years. 56% of all the oldest companies in the world are based in Japan.
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Now that 2019 is almost done, we think it would be interesting to look backward at our most favored maps of the year.
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Overview of the distribution of world Gross Domestic Product, including country subdivisions.
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We know that the world ocean is bottomless and that the deepest trench in the world has almost 11 kilometers. We also know that the world ocean covers about 70 percent of our planet, making more than 2/3 of Earth’s surface unseen to us. But assume we obtained a way to drain oceans of our world, what would Earth’s exterior look like, exactly?
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A list of the most common last names in every nation has been published, with Smith unsurprisingly taken top spot in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and many other English-speaking countries.
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The maps are based on distance from cities, roads, railways, and airports. The green areas represent places where travel to the city, road and other transportation facilities can be measured in hundreds of kilometers.
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There are now 47 million millionaires spread throughout the globe, but the U.S. is home to the enormous majority of them, with about 19 million millionaires. That’s a colossal 40 percent of the world’s total.
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22 of 36 developed countries (61%) saw a decline in home ownership over the last 10 years. Today UK residents need at least two months’ average salary to purchase just one square meter of home.
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