30 GIFs That Explain The World Around Us

By Savannah Cox | Edited By John Kuroski

Published March 3, 2014

Updated March 22, 2023

The Shrinking Of The Aral Sea

Due to former Soviet irrigation projects, the Aral Sea–what used to be one of the world’s largest lakes–has been effectively hollowed out.

=GIFs That Explain The World: Earth’s True Size

Poland’s Territorial Changes From 1635 To 2009

Several centuries after being established as a kingdom, over six million Polish people would be slaughtered in World War II and many more would suffer under strict Communist rule.

Territorial Claims Of North America

The Changing Unemployment Rates In The United States

Beginning with the financial meltdown in the mid 2000s, virtually no state has been spared from rising unemployment rates.

The Changing Distribution Of The United States Population

Manifest destiny has never appeared more engaging.

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author

Savannah Cox holds a Master's in International Affairs from The New School as well as a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and now serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Sheffield. Her work as a writer has also appeared on DNAinfo.

editor

John Kuroski is the editorial director of All That's Interesting. He graduated from New York University with a degree in history, earning a place in the Phi Alpha Theta honor society for history students. An editor at All That's Interesting since 2015, his areas of interest include modern history and true crime.

Cox, Savannah. "30 GIFs That Explain The World Around Us." AllThatsInteresting.com, March 3, 2014, https://allthatsinteresting.com/gifs-that-explain-the-world. Accessed April 25, 2024.