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A small population of foreign residents makes up the remainder. [233] Japan is the world's fastest aging country and has the highest proportion of elderly citizens of any country, comprising one-third of its total population ; [ 234 ] this is the result of a post–World War II baby boom , which was followed by an increase in life expectancy ...
California is traditionally separated into Northern California and Southern California, divided by a straight border which runs across the state, separating the northern 48 counties from the southern 10 counties. Despite the persistence of the northern-southern divide, California is more precisely divided into many regions, multiple of which ...
Russia, home of over 100,000 rivers, [230] has one of the world's largest surface water resources, with its lakes containing approximately one-quarter of the world's liquid fresh water. [236] Lake Baikal , the largest and most prominent among Russia's fresh water bodies, is the world's deepest, purest, oldest and most capacious fresh water lake ...
There were three, one for each engine; the outer (or wing) propellers were the largest, each carrying three blades of manganese-bronze alloy with a total diameter of 23.5 feet (7.2 m). [33] The middle propeller was slightly smaller at 17 feet (5.2 m) in diameter, [ 38 ] and could be stopped but not reversed.
It took over two million years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach one billion and only 207 years more to grow to 7 billion. [147] The combined biomass of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals. [139]
The very attempt to define religion, to find some distinctive or possibly unique essence or set of qualities that distinguish the religious from the remainder of human life, is primarily a Western concern. The attempt is a natural consequence of the Western speculative, intellectualistic, and scientific disposition.
The acquisition includes over 170 acres (0.69 km 2) of property, and 30 major buildings comprising roughly 1,600,000 square feet (150,000 m 2) of wet laboratory space, and 400,000 square feet (37,000 m 2) of administrative space. At the time of the agreement, the university's intentions for the space were not fully articulated, but the ...