22 Amazing Visualizations and Maps

October, 2014
A few months ago I posted here an article featuring 40 maps to teach students about Internet. The same creator of these maps, Vox, has recently released a set of 22 wonderful visualizations that contain some interesting facts. Some of these facts is really mind blowing ( e.g facts number 2 and 3) and is really worth having a looking at. I spent sometime today leafing through these visualizations and thought you might find them interesting as well.

Fact 6: America is so big that its states are the size of countries



Here is a quick round of up of these 22 facts, check out Vox original article to see the visualization.

  • More than half the world's population lives inside this circle
  • The British have invaded almost every country on earth
  • Africa is much bigger than you think
  • The wealthiest American in every state
  • Switzerland is the best place to be born
  • America is so big that its states are the size of countries
  • Much of America in uninhabited
  • The map of world wealth
  • Fewer people are dying from war than ever before
  • The most dangerous drugs in America are perfectly legal
  • The Philippines is the world's most emotional country. Singapore is its least.
  • Germany and Japan have the world's oldest populations. Niger has the youngest.
  • Snapchat is more popular than Twitter among Millenials
  • Half of US GDP comes from these 23 orange blotches
  • Antarctica's weird time zones
  • Guyana has the highest suicide rate in the world
  • If the world was as tightly packed as New York City, everyone could fit into Texas
  • Assault deaths in America are falling
  • We've cut childhood mortality almost in half since 1990
  • Global population will explode to 11 billion people by 2100
  • You are a tiny speck of nothingness




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