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PrinceRandom posted:A fun look at population density in the Arab League, and a comparison to the continental US in land area. What's the weird break in the Nile just south of the Egypt/Sudan border? Lake Nasser?
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Badger of Basra posted:What's the weird break in the Nile just south of the Egypt/Sudan border? Lake Nasser? No, I think Lake Nasser is mostly within Egypt (the biggest portions of it show on the map). It looks like it comprises the total area between the third and the second Cataracts of the Nile, so it could be natural? From the satellite photos it looks like that region has less flow than the south and north... Generally it seems like it takes a long time for man-made interferences in nature to have such a big impact on what would have been a very traditional living area. PrinceRandom fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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Phlegmish posted:I'd like to see the median income rather than per capita. The East Coast presumably has a lot of people (in the financial sector, for example 1) Go here: http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer 2) Click "view more maps" 3) Select "median household income"
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) making obscene amounts of money, which brings up the average. And the cost of living is much higher there, as well.
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PrinceRandom posted:A fun look at population density in the Arab League, and a comparison to the continental US in land area. The Nile is freaking awesome. I wonder what Ancient Egyptians would say when they saw it now. "Look, guys, the Pyramids are still standing!" "gently caress the Pyramids! WHAT THE gently caress IS THAT?!"  
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Jun 12, 2013 11:28
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Still including South Sudan is probably the most politically loaded thing about that map.
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so that means I can be a cheapskate and post about posting instead of having some wit or spending any more on comedy avs for people. Which I'm also incapable of. Comedy.
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Retarded Goatee posted:Still including South Sudan is probably the most politically loaded thing about that map. The maps that compare the League's size with other countries include Israel.
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Retarded Goatee posted:Still including South Sudan is probably the most politically loaded thing about that map. I think it was made before the official split. Faux Edit: It was made in 2009
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 Apparently the flight path from Switzerland to Portugal because of a French ATC strike.
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Captain Frigate posted:
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PrinceRandom posted:... Why not go south through Italy & Spain? French airspace extends out into the Mediterranean. It appears from that route that they flew along the Western border across the English Channel. 
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PrinceRandom posted:... Why not go south through Italy & Spain? IIRC, the southern passage through Italy & Spain means going into Algerian airspace because France "mans" a chunk between the Blue-Med zone (Italy, Tunisia) and the Spain-Portugal zone. Going north was the only way to ensure not going outside the EU airspace, and therefore not being subject to customs requirements for non-EU flights.
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So that one area on Egypt's southern border that nobody will claim because it's that useless has a population density of more then zero? That's sorta surprising.
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Fandyien posted:So that one area on Egypt's southern border that nobody will claim because it's that useless has a population density of more then zero? That's sorta surprising. Oh, it's not that it's useless. I suspect both Sudan and Egypt want Bir Tawil; it's just that they both want the Hala'ib Triangle more, so they'd rather stress that claim. Neither can actually claim Bir Tawil because claiming Bir Tawil would result in the other party claiming the Hala'ib Triangle ("Oh, if you accept your claim on Bir Tawil, then that means you accept OUR claim on the Hala'ib Triangle! Gotcha sucker!"), which is more valuable.
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There are even some towns there (sort of)! Via Wikipedia: "The major town in the area is Abu Ramad which lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) north west of Hala'ib on the Red Sea coast. Abu Ramad is the last destination of the buses that connect the area to Cairo and the other cities of Egypt such as Aswan, Marsa Alam and Qena. The only other populated place is the small village of Hadarba, south east of Hala'ib town on the coast." Also it appears that some nomadic tribes live in the area. I didn't find any population numbers, though.
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 A crime/murder rate map to go with that would be interesting
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Is there a reason Montenegro has so many officers?
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Vegetable posted:Is there a reason Montenegro has so many officers? Tiny population. At 865 per 100,000 it should have around 5500 officers, which doesn't seem that high.
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Jun 15, 2013 17:04
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They are way beaten by the Vatican State with 15625 police officers per 100000 people 
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Moldova is determined to be the worst European country in everything.
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Phlegmish posted:Moldova is determined to be the worst European country in everything. They have fine wines from what I hear.
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PrinceRandom posted:They have fine wines from what I hear. That makes sense, on account of I'm pretty sure Moldova is also the per-capita leader of alcohol consumption in Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption
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Fandyien posted:That makes sense, on account of I'm pretty sure Moldova is also the per-capita leader of alcohol consumption in Europe. Palau loves their beer. Oh, and Uganda is so high up in the 'other' category because of their moonshine. Thank you Vice.
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Phlegmish posted:Moldova is determined to be the worst European country in everything. I've heard Moldova isn't all that bad (disclaimer: currently living in Ukraine).
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Kainser posted:They are way beaten by the Vatican State with 15625 police officers per 100000 people The specific circumstances of the Vatican also mean that it has the highest crime rate in the world. Why? Because there are annually about 18 million visitors to the state, and that also means a lot of pickpocketing. In 1992, there were 455 Vatican citizens, with a recorded 397 civil (0.87 per capita) and 608 penal offences (1.33 per capita), adding up to a crime rate of 2.2 per capita  Pictured: The world's smallest state at 0.17 sqm
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In that vein, throughout the 1870s King Victor Emmanuel II offered Pope Pius Lateran City as a consolation prize for losing Rome. The Pope repeatedly reject the offer because he saw himself as the sole legitimate ruler of Rome. Had Pius accepted the offer, however, Vatican City would be nearly twice its current size.
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In the spirit of talking about alcohol, here are some maps based on the above link:     Can you guess in which countries people are dying of alcohol use disorders?  
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Is Estonia really that depressing to live in?
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Freudian posted:Is Estonia really that depressing to live in? If i wanted to be part of scandanavia and kept getting told i belonged in the balkans, i would be depressed too.
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WhitemageofDOOM posted:If i wanted to be part of scandanavia and kept getting told i belonged in the balkans, i would be depressed too. I don't think anyone's telling that to Estonia.
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Skeleton Jelly posted:I don't think anyone's telling that to Estonia. Maybe they're really angry with Estonia.
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Skeleton Jelly posted:I don't think anyone's telling that to Estonia.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It's not unusual to see people mistakenly call it a Balkan state though, even if that probably falls under the same header as people confusing Danish and Dutch. Or Dutch and Deutsch. That one had me confused for years.
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Tony Jowns posted:Or Dutch and Deutsch. That one had me confused for years.
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Reminds me of the exchange between Jerry and George in an episode of Seinfeld: GEORGE: What is Holland? JERRY: What do you mean, 'what is it?' It's a country right next to Belgium. GEORGE: No, that's the Netherlands. JERRY: Holland *is* the Netherlands. GEORGE: Then who are the Dutch? Also, that scene is great because of this: 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:At least that has the excuse of being the same word, just in two languages that have diverged. Danish/Dutch just has the D, and I suppose a bit of a libertine reputation? They're also pretty close to each other (more than Estonia and the Balkans anyway).
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prefect posted:"According to the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission, beer sales at Whiteclay's four liquor stores totalled 4.9 million cans in 2010 (~13,000 cans per day) for gross sales of $3 million." 13,000 cans a day, but there's only around 30,000 people on the reservation, according to wiki. Good lord.
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I think the op meant the Baltics without really knowing what this whole thing meant.
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WhitemageofDOOM posted:If i wanted to be part of scandanavia and kept getting told i belonged in the balkans, i would be depressed too. What's wrong with the Balkans 
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Depending on who you talk to, it's the Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Montenegrins, Kosovars, Albanians,
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.