美国人制作的40张地图让你真正读懂全世界(组图)

　　17. Languages and dialects of the Middle East and Central Asia

　　17.中东及中亚的语言及方言

　　Click to enlarge. Each color represents a language group, with shades for each dialect. (The Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University)

　　每种颜色代表了一种语言群，不同的深浅度表示不同的方言。

　　The first thing this map shows you is the remarkable diversity in one of the world's oldest and most storied regions, from Iraq in the West all the way to China in the East and Russia in the North. There are a hundred other stories embedded in here: the expansion of Iran beyond just Persian-speaking peoples, the fracturing of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the really stunning diversity packed into the Caucasus, which includes the troubled Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan.

　　这张地图告诉你的第一件事就是，在这个世界上最古老，有着最多故事的地区(从西边伊拉克一直到东边的中国和北边的俄罗斯)，多样性是多么地显著。这里也深藏着上百个其他的故事：伊拉克的扩张远超波斯语地区;阿富汗和巴基斯坦的破裂;高加索地区令人吃惊的多样性，包括了麻烦不断的俄罗斯车臣和达吉斯坦地区。

　　18. Where people smoke the most (and least) cigarettes per person

　　18.在哪里每人抽烟最多/最少

　　Annual per capita cigarette consumption rates. Data sources: World Lung Foundation and American Cancer Society. (Max Fisher / Washington Post)

　　年度每人消费香烟数。

　　Read more here about Russia's cigarette problem, which costs the country an estimated $48 billion every year, and about the other smoking trends seen in the map.

　　请在这里阅读俄罗斯的香烟问题。俄罗斯每年在香烟上的花费估价为480亿美元。其他关于抽烟的趋势，请看地图。

　　19. Economic inequality around the world

　　19.世界贫富差距

　　Higher gini coefficient scores indicate higher economic inequality. (Wikimedia Commons)

　　基尼指数越高，表示贫富差距越大。

　　This map shows each country's gini coefficient, which measures economic inequality. The red countries are the most unequal under the metric, and the green countries are the closest to nationwide economic equality. More here.

　　这张地图显示了每个国家的基尼指数，即测量贫富差距的指数。红色的国家是在此测量方法下贫富差距最大的，绿色的国家是最接近平均的。

　　20. How the U.S. compares to the world on economic inequality

　　20.与世界其他国家相比，美国的贫富差距

　　Click to enlarge. (Max Fisher)

　　Blue countries are more equal than the U.S., red countries are less equal. This map gives you a sense of just how severe economic inequality is in the United States; much higher than in any other developed country, and most developing countries as well.

　　蓝色国家贫富差距小于美国，红色国家大于美国(灰色为没有数据，紫色即美国)。这张地图能让你对美国贫富差距的严重程度有所认知。比任何发达国家都更严重，比大多数发展中国家也更严重。加拿大华人网 http://www.sinoca.com/