The document is a list of 40 maps that provide information on a variety of global topics such as how humans spread across the world, economic inequality among countries, locations where slaves live, the global supply chain for Nutella, areas with growing and shrinking populations, walls built to control immigration, winners of Nobel prizes, languages in North America before colonialism, origins of place names in the Americas, diverse languages in Africa, the word for "bear" in European languages, people who die trying to immigrate to Europe, percentage of Indian homes with toilets, languages of China and surrounding areas, naval firepower in the Pacific, and airline flights around the world over 24 hours.

1. 40 Maps that Explain the World

2. 2. How humans spread across the world

3. 7. How countries compare on
economic inequality

4. 9. Where the world's 30 million slaves
live

5. 10. Our globalized economy: What it
takes to make nutella

6. 11. Where populations are growing
and shrinking

7. 12. Walls of the world
The red lines indicate walls and
barriers meant to prevent or control
immigration; you see a number of
those particularly where there are
rich countries next to poorer
countries.
The green walls are mostly political
barriers, such as the 1,700-mile-long
"Moroccan Wall" dividing Moroccooccupied Western Sahara, the West
Bank separation barrier and the
Korean demilitarized zone.

8. 14. Who wins Nobel prizes (and who
doesn't)

9. 18. North America's languages, before colonialism

10. 19. Where
place names
come from in
the Americas

11. 24. The amazingly diverse languages
of Africa

12. 29. The word for "bear" in European languages

13. 30. People who die trying to immigrate to Europe

14. 35. Percentage of Indian homes with toilets

15. 36. The languages of China and the
surrounding area

16. 39. The naval firepower in the Pacific

17. 40. Every airline flight in the world over 24 hours
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