Geography
2010 Mean Center of Population for the United States
The U.S. Census Bureau has announced the mean center of the United States based on the 2010 Census. The official population center as of April 1, 2010 is a location near the town of Plato in Missouri. The Census Bureau defines the mean center of population as “the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and [...]
Geographic Population Growth by Country
This guest article is from Matthew Kopjak who takes a look at the U.S Census Bureau’s Population Growth by Country and how he was able to turn it into a easily sortable platform using FindTheBest. The site also has government data on Agriculture, Airport Crashes, World Trade Commodities. Comparing Population Growth by Country The Population Growth by Country tool allows users [...]
Map of Global Temperatures Since 1880
NASA takes a look at global temperatures and has a short piece and animated map showing the global change in temperature since 1880. According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and shown in this series of maps, the average global temperature on Earth has increased [...]
How English is Spoken Around the World
The Speech Accent Archive has catalogued snippets of the English language spoken around the world on their site. Steven Weinberger, a professor of linguistics at George Mason University created the web site with the purpose “to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds.” All samples have native English [...]
What is Geography?
Definition: Geography is the study of the surface of the Earth. The word derives from the Greek words hê gê (“the Earth”) and graphein (“to write”). Geography is much more than Cartography, the study of maps. It not only investigates what is where on the Earth, but also why it’s there not somewhere else, sometimes [...]