Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The countries in red: South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) have the same number of murders (22,071) each year than all the areas in blue (22,069).
This includes all of Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia as well as several Western and Midwest US Sates and a few other places to get the totals to match.
However, there’s something even more more shocking.
Here are the key observations:
The maps below show how skewed population concentrations are in various countries around the world from Egypt to China to Canada and the United States (at the bottom).
But before continuing I’m not exactly sure who created the original maps, so if you know please leave a comment and let me know so I can give proper credit.
Also the population figures are slightly too low for most countries so I suspect the maps are a few years old.
The map above is a humour look at how the Irish view the rest of Europe.
Basically everyone a Great bunch of lads except one group in particular for some unknown reason….
Oh and they are fond of the aul wine, beer and vodka.
What do you think?
Here’s a bit more about the regional breakdown custom:
However, it should be noted that while many countries have alternative calendar and dating systems, almost everyone also uses the Gregorian Calendar in day to day life alongside them.
Here’s a little bit more about them:
The color coding represents these perceptions:
They are:
The small purple dot on the map above shows Singapore which a population 6.04 million living in just 735.6 km2 (284.0 sq mi).
With a population density of 7,804/km2 (20,212.3/sq mi) it the densest country in the world with a population above 1 million people.
