Amazon River Map

Physical map of Amazon river basin.

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The Amazon River in South America is the second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined (not including Madeira and Rio Negro, which are tributaries of the Amazon). The Amazon, which has the largest drainage basin in the world, about 7,050,000 square kilometres (2,720,000 sq mi), accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow. (wp)

"Amazonrivermap" by Kmusser - Own work using Digital Chart of the World and GTOPO data.. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Billionaires World Map

The wealth Forbes' billionaires mapped.

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Map of the countries that are most and least welcoming to foreigners

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Buried several hundred pages into a new World Economic Forum report on global tourism, past the sections on air travel infrastructure and physician density (by which they mean the number of physicians per capita, not the mass-per-cubic-meter of individual doctors), are some very interesting numbers. The WEF has compiled survey data from 140 countries estimating the attitude of each countries’ population toward foreign visitors.

Source: Washington Post

10 nice postcard map from the Netherlands

1. The Netherlands / Nederland 

Every meteorite fall on earth mapped

After the meteor explosion in the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains the Guardian Data Blog:created a map with every meteorite falls.

Or at least those we know about. And where are the known meteorite landing places on earth? These impact zones show where scientists have found meteorites, or the impact craters of meteorites, some dating back as far as the year 2,300BC. The data is from the US Meteorological Society and doesn't show those places where meteorites may have fallen but not been discovered .

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/feb/15/meteorite-fall-map

Simulate a nuclear explosion in your city

Select a place on the map, set the yield of the nuclear weapon and see the destruction.

 http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/