Some unusual facts, with links to maps, from an engaging site called Worldmapper:
- "On average each year, on every 30 kilometres of road - someone dies in a traffic accident. Some places have a concentration of accidents: the world’s most dangerous road, in Bolivia, is 70 kilometres long and approximately 100 people die there every year." (See map.)
- "when Christopher Columbus was exploring Central and South America, the combined population of Mexico and Peru was greater than the total of all other American countries." (See map.)
- "0.1% of world tourist trips are made to Central African territories. As a tourist destination Andorra receives 45 visits per person in the population, per year. The equivalent figures for Monaco and the Bahamas are 7 and 5, respectively." (See map.)
And check out this map, titled The True Size of Africa, from Edge:
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