Map of the Week

27 Nov

Map of the Week: Ancient Indigenous Settlements and Roads within LA County

By Thomas Jang The Los Angeles Landscape History Project is a 3-year project conducted by three tribes in the present-day Los Angeles Basin: the Chumash, Tatavim, and the Kizh-Gabrieleño peoples. The team included geographers, computer scientists, historians, and biologists...
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7 Dec

Map of the Week: Migration to the Americas

By: Sophie Lichtenstein It is widely accepted in the scientific community that humans arrived to the Americas via Beringia, a land bridge that once connected Eastern Siberia to Alaska. However, the time period at which people first crossed Beringia is...
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16 Nov

Map of the Week: Pangaea With Current International Borders

By Sophie Lichtenstein Between 298.9 and 251.9 million years ago, all the continents on Earth existed as one massive continent called Pangaea. After this geologic period, called the Permian, Pangaea drifted apart to form the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and...
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9 Nov

Map of the Week: Countries That Don’t Use the Metric System

By Alexandra Kicior There are over 195 countries in the world, and all but three of them use the metric system. These three countries – Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States – insist on utilizing the outdated imperial system. However,...
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2 Nov

Map of the Week: Drought Conditions in the Amazon Rainforest

By Thomas Jang Storing 150 to 200 million tons of carbon, the Amazon Rainforest is one of the world’s important ecosystems. Nestled in the interior of South America, it expands across nine countries and covers 40% of the continent. Most...
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27 Oct

Map of the Week: Map of Palm Oil Plantations/Concessions

By Thomas Jang In the US, Halloween is a holiday centered around trick-or-treating, haunted houses, and most significantly, candy. From Kit-Kat to Snickers to Skittles, these candies have helped create a distinct culture around and likeness towards sugary foods at...
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19 Oct

Map of the Week: Christianity in the Roman Empire

By Sophie Lichtenstein This map of Christianity in the Roman Empire is our Roman Empire: In the modern period, Christianity is the largest religion, with 2.4 billion observants worldwide. Christianity originated in Judea in the early years of the...
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12 Oct

Map of the Week: World Median Ages by Country

By Alexandra Kicior In 1950 there were 2.5 billion people on the planet. Today, there are more than 8 billion. By the end of the century, the UN expects the global population to be around 10.4 billion. Part of the...
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5 Oct

Map of the Week: Writing Systems of the World

By Sophie Lichtenstein Across the world, there are 7,168 known languages in use today. Despite the amount of languages in use, more than half of the world relies on just 23 of them and 40 percent of the rest...
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28 Sep

Map of the Week: 2023 Canada Wildfires

By Jared Abazia Canada is experiencing its worst wildfires in history, with thousands forced to evacuate and the national government deploying the military to several provinces. While the country experiences a wildfire season every summer, this year’s blazes have been...
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