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5 hours ago · Roland G Robertson suggests that during the late 1630s, smallpox killed over half of the Wyandot (Huron), who controlled most of the early North American fur trade in the area of New France. In 1871 there was an enumeration of the Indigenous population within the limits of Canada at the time, showing a total of only 102,358 individuals.
1 day ago · Largest empires by land area. For context, the land area of the Earth, excluding the continent of Antarctica, is 134,740,000 km 2 (52,023,000 sq mi). Empires at their greatest extent The home and colonial areas of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer
1 day ago · Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
5 hours ago · In addition, there was a surge in population as the Chinese Civil War ended and the Kuomintang (KMT) forces retreated, bringing an influx of 1.2 million soldiers and civilians to Taiwan in 1948–1949, representing less than 15% of the population at the time (who constitute approximately 10% of the population in 2004).
- 6.0 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)
- 0.04% (2022 est.)
- 8.9 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)
- 23,347,374 (April 2023)
1 day ago · This is a list of first-level administrative divisions by area (including surface water) in square kilometres. Country subdivisions 1,000,000 km 2 (386,100 sq mi) and greater [ edit ] Rank
1 day ago · Crimea is almost an island and only connected to the continent by the Isthmus of Perekop, a strip of land about 5–7 kilometres (3.1–4.3 mi) wide. Much of the natural border between the Crimean Peninsula and the Ukrainian mainland comprises the Syvash or "Rotten Sea", a large system of shallow lagoons stretching along the western shore of ...
