>>523859119Not perfect but whatever. Israel being poor and Tajikistan being rich, I mean.
>>523859221The map was drawn up in the 1980s, so it might have some minor inconsistencies.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandt_Report
>>523859344I see. I don't know why they overlaid it on a modern map in the wikipedia page though.
>>523859119has to do with intelligence. Not much inhabitable area in the southern hemisphere outside the tropics. Horse latitudes are where the bigger brained folks live.
Reminds me of the old joke:>what separates man from the beasts?>the Mediterranean These days you might have to amend the punchline to the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Oder though.
>>523859119>Russia>Rich
>>523859119Whoever drew up this map was an idiot. Why does the line avoid some countries but not others? The only geography here is the tropics. Agriculture cannot thrive in the jungle. Cities come from agriculture. Writing comes from cities. Intelligence comes from reading.
