Brilliant maps for curious minds : 100 new ways to see the...

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Wright, Ian (Blogger)

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The Experiment

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2019

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1. People and populations

2. Politics, power, and religion

3. Culture and customs

4. Friends and enemies

7. National identity

8. Crime and punishment

1. PEOPLE AND POPULATIONS: 1. European countries overlaid on areas of the Americas with equal populations

2. US states overlaid on areas of Europe with equal populations

3. How the North American population fits into Europe

4. The astounding drop in global fertility rates from 1970 to 2015

5. More than half of the Australian population lives here

6. 50% of Canadians live south of the red line

7. Countries with the largest immigrant populations

8. Second largest nationality living in each European country

9. Percentage of people born in each European country now living abroad

10. Countries and overseas territories that each have smaller populations than Greater Tokyo

11. World median ages

12. Average female height worldwide

13. Average male height worldwide

2. POPULATIONS, POWER, AND RELIGION: 14. 64 countries have had a female leader in the last 50 years

15. Countries with state religions

16. Fastest-growing religion in each country around the world

17. Simplified map of Africa's religions

18. England vs. Great Britian vs United Kingdom

19. Birthplace of religious leaders

20. Every country's highest-valued export

21. The largest source of imports by country

22. Countries with economies bigger than California's

23. World gold reserves in grams per person

24. World divided in half based on military spending

25. Nuclear vs. non-nuclear countries

3. CULTURE AND CUSTOMS: 26. Who are the world's speed demons? The highest speed limits around the world

27. Who drives on the "wrong" side of the road?

28. Football vs. soccer

29. Most commonly spoken languages after English and Spanish

30. Maps of countries officially not using the metric system

31. Decimal point vs. decimal comma vs. other decimal separators

32. How to write the date in different counties

33. Election days by country

34. Countries that have no McDonald's

36. The most photographed places in the world

37. Heavy metal bands per 100K people

38. Countries with the most Miss World winners

39. Longest place names

40. Most recurring word on each country's English Wikipedia page

41. Age of consent for heterosexual sex

42. Male circumcision: one thing that unites the United States and the Middle East

43. World plug and socket map

4. FRIENDS AND ENEMIES: 44. Open borders of the world

45. Who Americans consider their allies, friends, and enemies

46. Countries the US is obligated to go to war for (for now)

47. 22 countries that the UK has not invaded

48. Countries that were raided or settled by Vikings

49. European countries that have invaded Poland

51. Countries that officially recognize the state of Palestine

52. Countries that officially recognize the state of Israel

53. Where North Korea has embassies

54. Who has embassies in North Korea?

55. Former and current communist countries

5. GEOGRAPHY: 56. Mercator projection vs. the true size of countries

57. Chile is a ridiculously long country

58. The true size of Africa

59. The Pacific Ocean is larger than all the land on Earth

60. The 20 largest islands in the world compared

61. The Pan-American Highway: the longest road in the world

62. More people live inside this circle than outside of it

63. Antipodes world map -or why you can't dig a hole to China from the US

64. The world in a mirror

65. The world's time zones

66. World's five longest domestic nonstop flights

67. Travel times from London in 1914

68. Travel times from London in 2016

69. Luxembourg is not a microstate! - 70. All roads lead to Rome

6. HISTORY: 71. European map of the unexplored world (1881)

72. Colonial Africa on the eve of World War I

73. Map of the entire internet in December 1969

74. If the Roman Empire reunited -using modern borders

75. The first proposed map of Pakistan and the partition of India

76. If the Mongol Empire reunited

77. When Great Britain was connected to continental Europe

78. Where were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

79. WWI casualties as a percentage of prewar populations

80. WWII casualties as a percentage of prewar populations

81. Countries that lost citizens on 9/11

7. NATIONAL IDENTITY: 82. Colors of passports around th world

83. Countries who flags contain red and/or blue

84. Flags of the world

85. If European borders were drawn by DNA instead of ethnicity

86. "Indian" isn't a language

87. What do we mean when we say "Asian"?

8. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: 88. The US has as many murders annually as all the counties in blue combined

89. Homicide rates: Europe vs. the US

90. Number of executions since 1976 in the US

91. Capital punishment laws of the world

92. Prison population per 100K people

93. Every recorded terrorist attack between 1970 and 2015

9. NATURE: 94. Countries with no rivers

95. Countries with the most venomous animals

96. Historic vs. present geographical distribution of lions (Panthera leo)

97. How many Americans believe that climate change will affect them?

98. All the sharks killed by humans vs. all the humans killed by sharks in 2017

99. Probability of a white Christmas

100. Average annual hours of sunlight in the US and in Europe

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Which countries don’t have rivers? Which ones have North Korean embassies? Who drives on the “wrong” side of the road? How many national economies are bigger than California’s? And where can you still find lions in the wild? You’ll learn answers to these questions and many more in this atlas of 100 infographic maps that reveal something surprising about our world. This one-of-a-kind atlas is packed with eye-opening analysis (Which nations have had female leaders?), whimsical insight (Where can’t you find a McDonald’s?), and surprising connections that illuminate the contours of culture, history, and politics. Each of these 100 maps will change the way you see the world—and your place in it.

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Brilliant maps for curious minds : 100 new ways to see the world

Brilliant maps for curious minds : 100 new ways to see the world / Ian Wright ; illustrated by Infographic.ly

Brilliant maps for curious minds

100 new ways to see the world

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