Play
Can you beat this round? Five TerraBrawl questions to try
Pakistan or Brazil? Ireland or Germany? Five duel questions with the real numbers behind them, and the reflexes that cost people points.
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The TerraBrawl blog
Short reads on country numbers that are easy to guess wrong. Each post asks you to guess before it tells you.
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Data story
GDP vs HDI: why the richest country isn't number one
Singapore is the richest country per person. On the UN's Human Development Index it's 13th. Why the two lists disagree, and which one to trust.
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Data story
Which countries are most online? Saudi Arabia beats the US and Japan
Seven countries report that essentially everyone uses the internet. None of them is the US or Japan. Why age matters more than broadband.
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Geography
Monaco to Mongolia: the most crowded and emptiest countries
Monaco fits about 18,700 people into each square kilometre; Mongolia has two. Why Rwanda and Bangladesh out-crowd the Netherlands and Japan.
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