20 Best Maps of 2019
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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Maps of world
Map of all of the surface of Earth. Maps of continents, countries, regions, and cities.
Nominal and per Capita GDP Cartogram with subdivisions
Overview of the distribution of world Gross Domestic Product, including country subdivisions.
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What Earth Would Look Like If All The Oceans Were Drained
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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The Most Common Last Name In Every Country
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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Global Remoteness
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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How Many Millionaires There Are In Every Country
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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Global map showing the ownership vs rental split rate
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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Centre of the population for each country in the world
Centre of the population for every nation in the world.
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How hot cities could be in 2050
Many of the world’s cities will face sharply different climates by 2050. I tried to visualize how climate change will affect world cities. I chose 6,000 cities and examined the current climate for each using the Global Environmental Stratification based on modeling future climate conditions as predicted by 63 of the emission scenario combinations.
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Orthographic depth of different languages
Languages have various levels of orthographic depth, which means that a language’s orthography can vary in a spectrum of a very irregular and difficult orthography (deep orthography) to a quite regular and simple one (shallow orthography).
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