Check out 15 maps that will make you understand the world better
Are you the kind of person who can better understand something when you see it or settle for data like “60% of the world's population”? The fact is, Twisted Sifter has published a list of 40 maps that explain our world better, and it can literally help you get better. Check out some of them below and then tell us: did you also find that this made it much easier to understand some important data about geopolitical distributions around the world?
1 - Where Google Street View is Available
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Image Source: Playback / TwistedSifterSao Tome and Principe does not appear on the map.
4 - What would the Pangeia look like with current territorial boundaries?
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Image Source: Playback / TwistedSifterThe strongest blue indicates 26 weeks or more; medium, between 14 and 25 weeks; the weak, less than 14 weeks. The eight countries in red, including the US, do not pay the license.
6 - World driving direction map
Image Source: Playback / TwistedSifterRed: right side. Blue: Left side - English hand.
7 - Internet use as the day progresses
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Image Source: Playback / TwistedSifterThere are more people living in the region shown in the map circle than outside it.
9 - Map of the flags
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Image Source: Playback / TwistedSifterThe more orange / reddish the color of the country, the more cases have been recorded in the air, pharmaceutical and energy, manufacturing, healthcare, consulting, music, telecommunication, agriculture and infrastructure sectors.
11 - Average age of first sexual intercourse of the population by country
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Image Source: Playback / TwistedSifterBlue: Latin. Green: Arabic. Yellow: Chinese Pink: Cyrillic. White: others.
14 - Division of seven regions: each corresponds to 1 billion people
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Image Source: Playback / TwistedSifterThe darker the region, the less water it has.