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Humanity will make the historic transition from a rural to an urban species some time in the next year, according to the latest UN population figures.

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largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Geeky geography. Love it.

# gmaps++

A view of San Francisco from the Golden Gate bridge

Google Maps have introduced street-level images in a few cities (New York, San Francisco, Denver, Miami and Las Vegas), and allow you to navigate round the streets at street level. Very, very neat.

# flags of the world as piecharts

Colours of the United Kingdom flag as a pie chart Colours of the South Korean flag as a pie chart Colours of the Mauritius flag as a pie chart Colours of the Niuean flag as a pie chart

Via. Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag. Turns out Pacman is hidden in the Niuean flag.

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