Percentage of Immigrants in the United States with a College Degree, by Country of Birth
38% of US adults hold a college degree. But among immigrants, the numbers go from 82% (India) to 9% (El Salvador), depending on where they were born.
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Map of all of the surface of Earth. Maps of continents, countries, regions, and cities.
The Earth 70 Million Years Ago
Seventy million years ago, no ice covered either pole, sea levels were about 170 meters (560 feet) higher than today, and large parts of what is now Europe lay beneath shallow seas.
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Earth During the Last Glacial Maximum
Around 21,000 years ago you could walk from Britain to France without crossing water. The North Sea floor was dry land, because so much water was locked up in ice sheets that coastlines everywhere looked different. The Sahara during this period was more barren than it is today, not less, and the Amazon existed as two separate forest fragments.
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From 4.5 Million to 8 Billion: How Earth’s Population Changed Over 12,000 Years
Eight billion people share the planet today, but that number has never moved in a straight line. Plagues erased tens of millions within a few years. Colonization wiped out nearly 90% of the Americas in a single century. The Industrial Revolution nearly doubled global numbers in just 100 years. A series of population cartograms maps all of this from 10,000 BCE to 2023.
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Most Countries Can No Longer Replace Their Own Populations
For most of human history, having six or seven children was survival arithmetic.
Today, in more than half the world’s countries, the average is below 2.1 — and
some are at levels that would cut their populations in half within two generations.
How Many Countries Does Each Continent Have?
The world has 195 countries, but they pile up very unevenly by continent. Africa leads with 54, Europe packs 43 into 10.5 million km², and South America has just 12 across a larger area than Europe. The Caribbean alone has more independent nations than all of South America.
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Which Countries Were Poorer Than India in 1980 vs 2026?
In 1980, India had a per capita income of $533. China was even lower at $275. Both sat near the very bottom of global income rankings. By 2026, India has climbed to $12,964, passing roughly 60 countries on that measure. China, however, has reached $31,023 — more than double India’s figure.
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The World’s Oldest Globe: Made in 1492 Without the Americas
The world’s oldest surviving globe was made in Nuremberg in 1492, before Columbus reached the Americas. Martin Behaim’s Erdapfel shows Earth measuring 29,000 km around instead of the actual 40,075 km. That’s 11,000 km missing, and two entire continents nowhere to be found.
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How Long Did It Take Western Civilization to Map the World?
Romans controlled the Mediterranean and traded with India, but had zero clue that two massive continents existed across the Atlantic. Even in 1811, during Napoleon’s reign, Antarctica was completely unknown. This 1856 atlas shows when we discovered each part of the world.
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Where Did Your Alphabet Really Come From?
The letters you’re reading didn’t originate in English-speaking countries. They came from Italy, borrowed from Greek, which adapted Phoenician. Most languages work this way. But 27 countries still write in scripts that actually developed on their own soil.
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