The countries where people don’t trust vaccines
The Wellcome Trust foundation has done a global study and found out that modern parents don’t believe that vaccines are effective. The leaders of this movement are Liberia (28%), France (18%), and Nigeria (16%).
You can see the interactive map here.
Chinese vertical world map
Population densities on the China-Russia border
Radioactive cloud that moved through Europe after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster
“21,212 km from Cape Town, South Africa to Vladivostok, Russia is the longest walking distance I’ve found on Google Maps. Over 14 months of walking at 10 hours a day through some of the most dangerous places in the world. Who’s up for a hike?”
Deforestation differences between Belize and Guatemala create a straight line along their border that is visible from space.
NASA has made an interactive map of forest fires in the past 15 years.
The amazing depths of the Baikal lake
The length of school holidays in European countries (in weeks)
A minimalistic topographical map of Japan
World’s CO emissions because of forest fires
Carbon monoxide has no smell, color, or taste. But it is very toxic and in the long term, it is bad for the health of the planet’s population.
US watersheds
The visible part of the river is only a small part of a huge system. Every river has a watershed — the territory the river gets the water from. The small rivers flow underground and feed the big rivers we see.
Countries with heads of states with facial hair
Global distribution of penguins
A topographic map of Mars
In just 3 months, an arctic fox travels 2,175 mi (3,500 km) on snow and ice.
The number of metal bands per one million people
Shoreline lighthouses on the map of Europe
In order to show the planet on a plain surface, cartographers use different types of projections. The human head is a great example of how the projections distort reality. Left to right, up and down: globular, orthographic, stereographic, and mercator head projections.
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