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Sunni-Shiite Map: Stark Political Split, Mixed Populations.
Behind Stark Political Divisions, a More Complex Map of Sunnis and Shiites.
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Which countries are the world's most linguistically diverse?
Mapped: The 7,000 languages across the world. Many countries are home to hundreds of languages, sometimes despite having very small populations.
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UN: 1 in 122 people worldwide have been forced to flee homes
European countries need to set up a "massive" refugee resettlement programme, the head of the UN refugee agency says.
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The food desert of the north
Despite living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the majority of homes Canada's Nunavut territory suffer from chronic food insecurity. Without relief in sight, survival sometimes comes down to killing a narwhal.
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10 Maps That Defined 2015
A cartographic tour through the year’s biggest stories.
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Map of World's Groundwater Shows Planet's 'Hidden' Reservoirs
Researchers from an international collaboration create the world's first groundwater resource map. They also estimated the world's current total supply and the ages of different segments of these resources.
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Why Cannibals Were on Every 16th-Century Map of the New World
Many of the first European maps of the Americas included warnings of cannibalism, despite no proof of such activity. By Allison Meier.
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New York is for the rich only: “Inequality in housing has reached Dickensian dimensions”
Jane Jacobs' worst fears are slowly being realized. Gentrification has created a "high-rent blight" on the city
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Does America Really Need The National Mall?
Center stage for many historic protests and demonstrations, the National Mall has fallen on hard times.
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New York City’s Remotest Spot
A mostly scientific search for peace and quiet.
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Photographing the American 'Grid,' One Square Mile Per Frame
The West’s checkerboard plan, devised by Thomas Jefferson, gets the Instagram treatment with striking satellite imagery.
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Two Satellite Images That Capture the Explosive Growth of Eastern China
The Pearl River Delta has gone from mostly rural to the world’s largest urban area in three decades.
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Behold the Largest Atlas in the World: The Six-Foot Tall Klencke Atlas from 1660
Last week, we featured the free digital edition of the The History of Cartography. Or what's been called “the most ambitious overview of map making ever undertaken.” The three-volume series contains illustrations of countless maps, produced over hundreds of years.
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The Big Idea Behind San Francisco's New Rider-Friendly Transit Map
It uses weighted lines to show which buses come more often than others.
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Map of the Week: Equal Population Mapper
The good folks at Slate introduced a creative mapping tool, dubbed the Equal Population Mapper. This interactive graphic allows users to pick a population center (e.g., New York City, Wyoming, the Coasts) and compare its relative density to any area of the United States by selecting a County and watching the map fill in the surrounding area until an equal population is covered.
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The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Now Free Online
Worth a quick mention: The University of Chicago Press has made available online -- at no cost -- the first three volumes of The History of Cartography. Or what Edward Rothstein, of The New York Times, called 'the most ambitious overview of map making ever undertaken.'
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Where is Point Nemo?
Point Nemo is the location in the ocean that is farthest from land.
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An intriguing peek inside one of the only handmade globe studios in the world
A home or office isn't complete without a globe. A beautiful sphere of the world that we can spin on its axis and dream about the next faraway land we'd love to travel to some day.
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The Dustbin of Geography
That picture of you at the Royal Observatory astride the Greenwich Meridian? It's a lie.
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The Great Boot Debate: Is it time for Louisiana to change its map?
Given the amount of land loss along the coast, some believe Louisiana's iconic boot-shaped map is due for a makeover.
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