Some Interesting facts the New York City Population!

Here are some interesting facts about the New York City population:

·         With a July 2015 population of 8,550,405, New York is the most populous city in the United States, more than twice the size of the second largest city, Los Angeles.

·         About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City.

·         New York has the highest population density of any major city in the United States, with over 27,000 people per square mile.

·         Over 3 million of New York City’s residents are foreign-born; over one-quarter arrived in 2000 or later.

·         Nearly 2 million New Yorkers are under the age of 18.

·         New York City has more people than 40 of the 50 U.S. states.

·         New York City comprises over two-fifths of New York State’s entire population.

·         New York City has grown by over 1 million people since 1990.

·         The 2014 median age in New York City was 35.8 years, almost two years lower than the national median of 37.7 years.

·         Over one-third of the population 25 and over in New York City has a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 30 percent nationally.

·         There are nearly 400,000 more women than men in New York.

·         There is a birth in New York City every 4.4 minutes.

·         There is a death in New York City every 9.1 minutes.

·         The borough of Brooklyn on its own would be the 4th largest city in the United States; Queens would also rank 4th nationally.

·         Approximately two-thirds of dwelling units in New York are renter-occupied, over twice the national average.

·         The average commute for New Yorkers is just over 40 minutes, about 14 minutes longer than the national average.

·         New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia.

·         More persons of West Indian ancestry live in New York City than any city outside of the West Indies.

·         New York has the largest Puerto Rican population of any city in the world.

·         More Dominicans live in New York than any other city in the world, barring Santo Domingo.

·         Over 2.4 million Hispanics reside in New York City, more than any other city in the United States.

·         The Black nonhispanic population of New York City numbered 1.89 million in 2014, more than double the count in any other U.S. city.

·         Half of all New Yorkers speak a language other than English at home.

·         Over 200 languages are spoken in New York City.

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Source: https://on.nyc.gov/2zE0JNK

How much people spent online on BLACK FRIDAY 2017?

Answer: 

$5 Billion in 24 hours!

5 Largest Libraries in the world

Answer: 

• British Library
• Library of the U.S. Congress
• Library and Archives, Canada
• The New York Public Library 
• Russian State Library 

Largest Public Library in the world

Answer: 

British Library is the largest library in the world!
According to British Library's  facts and figure,

• We receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland
• The collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages
• 3 million new items are added every year
• We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents
• The Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to CD, DVD and MD recordings
• We house 8 million stamps and other philatelic items
• All this requires over 625 km of shelves, and grows by 12 km every year
• If you see 5 items each day, it would take you over 80,000 years to see the whole of the collection
• The world's earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra, is sometimes on display in our exhibition galleries alongside many other treasures
• We have on-site space for over 1,200 Readers
• Over 16,000 people use the collections each day (on site and online)
• Online catalogues, information and exhibitions can be found on this website
• We operate the world's largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world
In depth
Access
• The British Library serves business and industry, researchers, academics and students, in the UK and world-wide
• Each year:
o Six million searches are generated by the British Library online catalogue
o Nearly 400,000 visit our Reading Rooms
• Over 100 million items have been supplied to users all over the world
Collections
Treasures include:
• Magna Carta
• Lindisfarne Gospels
• Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook
• The Times first edition from 18 March 1788
• Beatles manuscripts
• The recording of Nelson Mandela's Rivonia trial speech
Holdings include:
• Material over 3,000 years old (Chinese oracle bones) - and today's newspapers
• 310,000 manuscript volumes: from Jane Austen to James Joyce; Handel to the Beatles
• 60 million patents
• Over 4 million maps
• Over 260,000 journal titles
The building at St Pancras:
• The largest public building constructed in the UK in the 20th century
• The basements extend to a depth of 24.5 metres
• A total floor area of over 112,000 sq metres spread over 14 floors - 9 above ground, 5 below
• 10 million bricks and 180,000 tonnes of concrete were needed to complete the building
• Awarded grade I listed building status in August 2015
The buildings at Boston Spa
• Originally an ordnance factory
• Specifically designed for document delivery service processes
• Over 100km of shelving housing a collection devoted to interlibrary loan.

Source: http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/facts/

What is the world's smallest ocean?

Answer: 

The Arctic Ocean is the world's smallest ocean. 

According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

"With an area of about 5.4 million square miles, the Arctic Ocean is about 1.5 times as big as the United States. It is bordered by Greenland, Canada, Norway, Alaska, and Russia. The average depth of the Arctic Ocean is 12,000 feet and it is 17,850 feet at its deepest point."

Source: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/smallestocean.html

Longest word in the dictionary

It has 45 letters!

Pronounciation: 

[noo-muh-noh-uhl-truh-mahy-kruh-skop-ik-sil-i-koh-vol-key-noh-koh-nee-oh-sis, nyoo-] 

What does it mean? An obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung diseasecaused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longestwords in the English language. 

Source: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

World's largest military spenders in 2016

Answer: 

USA 

"US military spending in 2016 was $611 billion—nearly 3 times as much as China's military spending, which was the second highest in 2016 at $215 billion. US military spending is larger than the next 8 biggest military spenders combined." 

-- According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (sipri)

Source: http://visuals.sipri.org/