Spain: 329M overnight stays. France, world's most visited country by arrivals: 150M.
Mallorca: 47.2M overnight stays in 2023. Switzerland, whole country: 27.7M.
https://t.co/yzVoa8Z4V7
#travel#tourism#europe#europeanunion
37% of US adults have a college degree.
Among immigrants, depending on where they were born:
India: 82%
Saudi Arabia: 81%
Taiwan: 75%
El Salvador: 9%
Guatemala: 9%
Mexico: 10%
Nigeria (68%) is the one that surprises people every time. https://t.co/C5NGLRiMJ0
Y'all liked the US map, so I did Europe. Same approach: every @nytimes international article since 2000 (n≈199,000) turned into a map of which topics are covered disproportionately (where coverage was sufficient to calculate). Results by country below, alphabetical 👇
November 3, 1921 - Tokyo's morning paper includes a free bird's-eye view of the entire Japanese Empire.
56 million people. 681,000 km² of territory.
Nine days later, Japan was at the Washington Naval Conference as a recognized world power. https://t.co/5Cby8JE1WR
#japan
The EU started with 6 countries in 1957. By 2013 it had 28.
Lithuania's GDP per capita went from 26% to 68% of the EU average after joining in 2004. Poland's unemployment dropped from 19% to 3%.
https://t.co/ulqHrzd8ly
#europeanunion#eu
Europe's development gap by numbers (UNDP HDR 2025, 2023 data):
Iceland: 0.972 (highest in the world) Ukraine: 0.779 / Moldova: 0.785 / Belarus: 0.824
EU members in Central/Eastern Europe cut nearly 30 points of the gap with the West since 2004.
https://t.co/bPz1lAI9SE
Your tap water carries a chemical record of the underground rock it passed through.
Midland, TX: ~500 mg/L (Permian Basin limestone) Portland, OR: ~10 mg/L (volcanic mountain watershed)
50x difference in dissolved minerals.
https://t.co/apzYjQ8fug
#unitedstates#water
Uruguay ~77% European genetic ancestry. Argentina ~71%. Bolivia ~12–25%. 16.8 million immigrants between 1820 and 1960 reshaped the southern cone permanently. https://t.co/9rHdoDq17Y
#southamerica