Seychelles

Caribbean

Mauritius

None

Angola

Botswana

Democratic Republic of Congo

eSwatini

Lesotho

Madagascar

Malawi

Mozambique

Namibia

South Africa

Tanzania

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlights the Southern African Development Community members such as Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Madagascar highlighted in light green.

Member states of the Southern African Development Community, an organization founded in 1980 to enhance economic cooperation among its members

Countries

SADC

Southern African Development Community (SADC) Members

Arizona

Utah

Florida

Washington

Kentucky

Mississippi

Louisiana

Oregon

Alabama

Wisconsin

Michigan

Pennsylvania

Nevada

Georgia

California

Ohio

Indiana

Minnesota

Illinois

A world map highlights weaker-performing cities during the 2008-2009 recession, depicted in orange. Key regions include California, Oregon, and Nevada on the West Coast, the Midwest around Chicago, and the Southeast, particularly Florida.

Portions of the United States where cities had weak economic performance relative to other U.S. cities

Regions of Weaker-Performing Cities

North America

nature

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Guyana

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Latin America

A map shows the membership status of South American countries. Associate Members (green), including Guyana, Peru, and Suriname. Full Members (red), including Brazil, and Argentina. Suspended Members (blue), which includes Venezuela.

Member states of Mercosur, an organization founded in 1991 to promote free trade among its members

Council on Foreign Relations

Mercosur

Montana

North Dakota

Saskatchewan

Texas

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

Québec

Manitoba

Ontario

South Dakota

A map displaying locations of major dams marked by blue dots. High concentrations are seen in the USA, Europe, and East Asia. Other notable locations include Brazil, South Africa, and Australia. Some regions, like central Africa, have fewer dams.

Dams with a reported storage capacity of 5,000 million cubic meters (5,000,000,000 cubic meters) or more

Major Dams

World

GlobalDamWatch.org

Alaska

Yukon

Northwest Territories

District of Columbia

Idaho

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

Wyoming

Nunavut

Maine

Nova Scotia

Virginia

Delaware

Prince Edward Island

West Virginia

Nebraska

Missouri

Hawaii

North Carolina

New Brunswick

New Mexico

Kansas

New Jersey

South Carolina

Alberta

Connecticut

Colorado

Massachusetts

New York

Maryland

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Arkansas

Iowa

A map illustrates prevailing agricultural practices around the world to represent different types of agriculture.

Prevailing Agricultural Practices

Pink-shaded regions indicate regions of commercial gardening, which includes parts of the southeastern United States, some in the western United States, northern Africa, central Asia, and southern Australia, as well as western Sweden. Purple-shaded regions represent dairy farming, notably seen in parts of northern Europe, such as the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the Netherlands, as well as parts of the northeastern and southeastern United States, northeastern New Zealand, and southeastern coastal regions of Australia. Orange shaded regions show grain farming, visible across large portions of the central United States, Canada, and parts of Europe including Ukraine and southern Russia, as well as parts of Argentina and southern Australia. Blue shaded regions denote intensive subsistence farming with wet rice dominant, primarily seen in parts of eastern China, the western and eastern coastal regions of India including Nepal, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia. Green shaded regions represent intensive subsistence farming where wet rice is not dominant, covering areas in North, West, and East Asia, parts of China, much of India, Pakistan, and some regions in Africa and Central and South America. Light pink shaded regions indicate areas with little or no agriculture, found in parts of northern Canada, Greenland, northern Russia, some desert areas in Africa and the Middle East, and central parts of Australia. Green shaded areas show livestock ranching, prevalent in parts of the western United States, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Australia. Light orange shaded regions represent Mediterranean agriculture, visible in areas around the Mediterranean Sea including parts of Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, as well as coastal California, Chile, and South Africa. Yellow shaded regions indicate mixed crop and livestock farming, observed in parts of central Europe, the eastern United States, and some regions in South America, South Africa, and southern Russia. Dark green shaded regions denote pastoral nomadism, mainly found in parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Gray shaded regions signify plantation agriculture, visible in parts of Central and South America, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia including Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Southern African Development Community (SADC) Members	Regions of Weaker-Performing Cities	Mercosur	Major Dams	Prevailing Agricultural Practices
Value	Regions of Weaker-Performing Cities	Value	Major Dams	Commercial gardening	Dairy	Grain	Intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant	Little or no agriculture	Livestock Ranching	Mediterranean	Mixed crop and livestock	Plantation



	48.8%		1	5.08%	11.3%	13.0%	1.03%	22.1%	20.9%	34.7%	36.3%	10.6%