It's surprising, but the country with the highest number of timezones is France with 12. This nation has territories in South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific islands. The US, the UK, and Russia also have a high number of unique timezones.

The full list of timezones per country can be found in Wikipedia.

The European Union Stats office offers a dataset with the population density per country. The map above shows the latest data available from 2014. It's not surprising that Netherlands and Belgium have the highest density in continental Europe.

A recent article published by The Lancet magazine shows that obesity is becoming a real-world health problem more than the underweight issue. They used population-based data sources, with more than 19.2 million adult participants in 186 of 200 countries and found that the number of obese people has increased from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014.

The World Health Organization also publishes data about Obesity and Overweight, and the percentage of the population with overweight (BMI > 25) is more than half of the population in almost all the industrialized countries in the world:

This problem is particularly bad in the Pacific Islands.

The news cycle during the last couple of days has been dominated by the Panama Papers. These are a leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents that provide detailed information about 214000 offshore companies listed by a Panamanian law firm. Many of those shell companies were set up abroad by world leaders, politicians, and associates around the world.

The map above shows the countries that have been mentioned in the Panama Papers.

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