This is an image of the number of aircraft flights in the world. As you can see the U.S is the biggest by far, with most people in the U.S flying sometimes to the state that is right next to the one they are in. The thing that really stands out is that Africa and Southeast asia have the least, even though they are the farthest from things. Lots of people in these countries and other LDC's have never even been on an airplane before. Globalization is the increasing interconectedness of people and places through converging proccesses of economic, political, and cultural change. So this map really shows that if we want Globalization to really increase I think that we are going to have to start going to these LDC's more and trying to develop them. World Mapper said that in 2000 civilian aircraft flew a total of 25 billion kilometers, that means if one person flew this themselves they would circle the world 630,000 times! Wow, I can't stop wondering how far I have flown on an airplane and never even left the states!
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