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In France, refusing to give a customer tap water can cost a restaurant €8,000. In Italy, a hotel recently refused to serve a guest tap water during dinner and Italy's Supreme Court ruled the hotel did nothing wrong. In Germany, still water is priced like any other drink on the menu.

spain: 329 million international overnight stays france, the world's most visited country by arrivals: 150 million

Greenland has 25 critical minerals on the EU's list. The Gardar alkaline province in the south has two of the world's most significant rare earth deposits within a few kilometres of each other. Kvanefjeld: 1.01 billion tonnes, 11 million metric tons of rare earth oxides, blocked by a uranium mining ban since 2021. Tanbreez: 28.2 million tonnes, over 27% heavy rare earth elements, heading toward production by 2028.

Around 37% of US adults have a college degree. but among immigrants, the range goes from 82% (india) to 9% (el salvador / guatemala) depending on where you were born.

Korea's 1402 Kangnido world map depicted Africa's southern tip, over 100 European place names, and the full Old World from Africa to Japan - decades before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape.

Nine days after this map was printed, Japan was at the Washington Naval Conference as a recognized world power.

In 1929, Japan's most famous cartographer Yoshida Hatsusaburō drew a panoramic bird's-eye view of Korea for the Chōsen Exhibition in Seoul. The map covers the full peninsula from Qingdao to Osaka, with every railway, mountain, shrine, and colonial installation marked. Produced for an exhibition that drew nearly 1 million visitors in September-October 1929.

The Day Earth Loses All Its Oceans

Sixty years later: 27 members, six enlargement rounds, and one of the more ambitious international cooperation projects ever attempted.

If All Ice Melted on Earth

A county map of Black Protestant adherence in shows a strong Southern pattern, with the highest rates concentrated in places where Black church life has deep roots.

Scotland voted 62% Remain, England 53.4% Leave, and Wales 52.5% Leave on 23 June 2016. A Brexit map reimagines the UK as an archipelago where Remain areas are land and Leave areas are sea.

Iceland: HDI 0.972, the highest in the world. Ukraine: 0.779. Moldova: 0.785. Those numbers reflect real differences in how long people live, how far their education goes, and what economic opportunities look like.

Midland, TX: ~500 mg/L (Permian Basin limestone) Portland, OR: ~10 mg/L (volcanic mountain watershed)

Fall Is Getting Warmer Across Every U.S. County Since 1970

The outer suburbs average 30-50 homes per hectare. The most compressed inner areas hit 240-435.