Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds

Name: Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds | 100 New Ways to See the World
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100 New Ways to See the World

Ian Wright(Autor*in)

The Experiment (Verlag)

Erschienen am 5. November 2019

208 Seiten

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. People and Populations
1. European countries overlaid on areas of the Americas with equal populations
2. US states* overlaid on 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. Politics, 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 Britain vs. United Kingdom
19. Birthplaces 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. Map 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 countries
33. Election days by country
34. Countries that have no McDonald's
35. Cats vs. dogs
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 US 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 the Vikings*
49. European countries* that have invaded Poland
50. Zone Rouge: an area of France so badly damaged during WW1 that people were forbidden to live there*
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 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 1
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 Britian was connected to continental Europe
78. Where were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
79. WW1 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 the world
83. Countries whose 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 countries in blue combined*
89. Homicide rates: Europe* vs. the US
90. Number of executions since 1976 in the US*
91. Capital punishment lawsof 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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