A great visualization, heat maps overlaying a world map, from the NewScientist.
Very little of the world’s land can now be thought of as inaccessible. . . . The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. . . . First, less than 10% of the world’s land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city.
. . . The world’s most remote place is on the Tibetan plateau . . . From here, says Andy Nelson, a former researcher at the European Commission, it is a three-week trip to the cities of Lhasa or Korla – one day by car and the remaining 20 on foot.
[via Visual Complexity]
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