#1 Maps: All about Asia

🆕 Afandi English is bringing you maps that can tell stories. Why do lots of reading when you can get knowledge more easily from maps?

▶️ Today’s map shows you how unequally the world’s population is distributed. Two countries alone, China and India, account for 40% of the world’s population, and they are surrounded by smaller but also pretty crowded countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines, each of which have populations of over 100 million people.

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#4 Know Your World: Ugly but true

▶️ Did you know that maps always lie to us? Since the Earth is a globe we simply cannot have a map that shows us both true sizes and true shapes. It is often argued that the poor countries in the tropics look too small on maps and the Europe, Russia, Greenland and North America too big.

❗️Here’s an alternative projection of the world map – the so-called Gall-Peters Projection. It is true to size, not shape, and looks strangely squeezed (=made small) and stretched (=made long).

❓Why should we care?

❗️Maps shape the way we see the world. Look how big Africa is on this map. And that’s the true size of it.

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#6 Know Your World: Geopolitical Anomalies

▶️ How many countries are there in the world? Around 200. But the exact answer depends on who you ask. Why? There are plenty of anomalies (=unusual things) in the world.

❗️Read the explanations below if you want to find out more.

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#73 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

🆕 In this quiz you have to guess what the map is showing.

▶️ The map shows two kinds of countries. Most countries are red but some countries are blue.

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#11 Know Your World: Ancestry in America

▶️ America is a melting pot (=metaphor of a pot in which different people become one and the same) – or is it a salad bowl (=metaphor of a bowl in which different people remain different but are part of the same)? Anyway, when you ask people where their grandparents, great-grandparents and also their family name came from they can actually tell you. Check out where most of them came from!

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#76 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

▶️ The map shows countries in different colours, from green to red.

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#81 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

▶️ The map shows European countries in different colours, from green to red. The lowest is Turkey with 2.0 and the highest is Belarus with 17.5.

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#89 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a strange-looking world map. Some countries are inflated (=made bigger, esp. from pumping air inside) while others seem abnormally thin.

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#96 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a world map showing countries in different colours.

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#103 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a world map showing countries in different colours.

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#109 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a world map showing two kinds of countries – dark blue and light blue, the rest being grey or ‘no data’.

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#114 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a world map showing countries on a scale between plus and minus a few percentage points.

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#119 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a map of Europe showing percentage points between 2.8% for 🇹🇷Turkey and 69.4% for 🇮🇸Iceland.

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Afandi Quiz #125: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a map of the world showing percentage points for various countries. The highest is 🇿🇼Zimbabwe with a whopping (=crazy high) 269%, the lowest is 🇨🇳China with only 2.1%

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#article
Stay informed about the world.

#economist
Grab information and vocab from the mother of news magazines.

#future
Feel the world of tomorrow even today.

#infographic
Let your eye travel across important topics.

#inspiration
See the world in a new light.

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Understand today’s world.

#know_yourself
Know thyself and live well.

#maps
Realise reality with maps.

#psychology
See the human nature so no one can fool you.

#talk
Hear what experts have to say in TED Talks, etc.

#talking_point
Sharpen your mind with controversies.

#travel
Travel the world while staring at your phone.

#uni_vocab
Get to grips with key concepts in higher education.

#wikipedia
Feel the weirdness of this world.

#world_englishes
Be sure you know really know the world’s first language.

#world_food
Check out some lovely meals that you may prepare at home, too.