The US accounts for one third of all the world’s airports, with over 15,000 to it’s name, but the vast majority of countries have fewer than 100.
Geography
Anguilla, a tiny British island territory in the Caribbean, brings in up to $30 million in revenue each year by licencing its ‘.ai’ domain name to other companies.
Half the world’s GDP comes from 4% of its land mass.
Actually, London gets 562mm per year on average: a bit less than Malta (592mm) and Rome (586mm), and about half of the annual average of Sydney (1,222mm) or New York (1,059mm).
The London Underground Map says the quickest route from Lancaster Gate to Paddington is to travel two stops, change lines, and travel two more. As anyone familiar with the area knows, it’s much quicker to ditch the Tube and walk – the 500 metre journey between the stations takes five minutes.
Our customary map of the world, the Mercator projection, is wildly inaccurate. Africa appears to be the same size as Greenland, when in fact it is 14 times larger. Antarctica seems to be the biggest continent, but it’s actually the third smallest and dwarfed by both the Americas. The map was first used by explorers because it preserves angles and shapes (for navigation), but as a result it massively distorts the size of land masses.
Tuvalu earns about 1/12th of its national income from licensing its ‘.tv’ domain to streaming platforms like Twitch.