Where the World’s Millionaires Live
Compare the top 25 countries with the highest number of millionaires in 2019 and 2024. Find out where wealth is growing, and how the millionaire landscape has shifted worldwide.
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Maps of world
Map of all of the surface of Earth. Maps of continents, countries, regions, and cities.
Tautological Geography: When Place Names Say the Same Thing Twice
Ever wondered why we call it the “Sahara Desert” when Sahara already means desert? Join us on a journey through the world’s most redundant place names and learn how colonial history created these linguistic oddities.
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How Alcohol Consumption Changed around the World
Alcohol consumption looks completely different depending on where you live. Using UNECE data, I mapped how much people drink across countries and tracked changes over the past decade. Romania leads at 17.1 litres of pure alcohol per person, but tourism can inflate small countries’ numbers. The global average has been dropping since 2010, though individual countries show all kinds of patterns.
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The uniqueness of the flags visualized
An international flag of every country symbolizes a nation’s brave sacrifices, it expresses its vision, spirit, culture, religion, and history; and instills pride and solidarity among citizens. But most eminently, it’s the identification of every nation and its citizens.
Read MoreThe Western Schism (1378 – 1417)
The Western Schism or Papal Schism was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 1378 to 1417 in which
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What happens when you pull the plug on the Marianas Trench
This animated map below shows what our planet looks like without water if you pull the plug on the Marianas Trench.
Read MoreThe World’s top-selling car model
What are the top selling car models from around the world? The bestsellers list can be dramatically different due to
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U.S. Population changes by County from 2010 to 2016
The “islands” of growth are large cities.
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GDP per capita of largest world economies (2050)
Latest long-term global growth projections to 2050 for 32 of the largest economies in the world, accounting for around 85%
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Countries that use the Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is the writing system originally developed by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. It has since become the most widely used writing system in the world, employed for various languages, in
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