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Koeppen's Classification of Climates

Languages spoken by more than 50 million people (1998)
  1. Mandarin Chinese (1,070 million people)
  2. English (508)
  3. Hindi (497)
  4. Spanish (392)
  5. Russian (277)
  6. Arabic (246)
  7. Bengali (211)
  8. Portuguese (191)
  9. Malaysian-Indonesian (159)
  10. French (129)
  11. German (128)
  12. Japanese (126)
  13. Urdu (105)
  14. Punjabi (94)
  15. Korean (78)
  16. Telugu (76)
  17. Tamul (74)
  18. Marathi (71)
  19. Cantonese (71)
  20. Wu (70)
  21. Vietnamese (67)
  22. Javanese (64)
  23. Italian (63)
  24. Turkish (61)
  25. Filipino (58)
  26. Thai (52)
Religions of the world
Religion Millions of followers (1998)
Agnostics and atheists
906.90
Baha'is
6.77
Buddhists
353.80
Christians
1,943.00
Confucianists
6.20
Hindus
761.60
Jains
3.90
Jews
14.10
Muslims
1164.60
Traditional Chinese Religions
379.10
Sikhs
22.30
Shintoists
2.79
Others
101.27

Who's' rich?
 
Country GDP per capita $000's (2001)
Norway 39.4
Switzerland 39.4
Japan 38.0
USA 37.9
Denmark 34.8
Sweden 31.0
Ireland 29.8
Finland 28.1
Austria 27.7
Germany 27.1
The Netherlands 26.9

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