It's a small world...

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre’s Global Urbanisation and Accessibility Map is a map that plots the estimated travel time to major cities.

The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. The model combines information on terrain and access to road, rail and river networks. It also considers how factors such as altitude, steepness of terrain and hold-ups like border crossings slow travel.

Their conclusion is that the world is mostly urbanized and only 10% of the world is so remote that it's more than 48 hours from a city. Such places as the poles, some parts of Venezuela, and Tibet. 

• more than half of the world's population lives less than one hour from a major city, but the breakdown is 85% of the developed world and only 35% of the developing world;
• 95% of the world's population is concentrated on just 10% of the world's land; but
• only 10% of the world's land area is classified as "remote" or more than 48 hours from a large city.

Via Telstarlogistics.

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