Australia

Australia & Oceania

Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean

Kazakhstan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

East Asia

Azerbaijan

Russia

Eurasia

Denmark

Italy

Norway

Romania

United Kingdom

Europe

Argentina

Brazil

Colombia

Ecuador

Peru

Venezuela

Latin America

Canada

Mexico

United States

North America

India

South Asia

Brunei

Indonesia

Malaysia

Thailand

Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Algeria

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Kuwait

Libya

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Syria

Tunisia

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Chad

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Nigeria

Republic of the Congo

South Sudan

Sudan

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlights the percentage of oil production by country with red being the highest. Red in Russia, North America, and Saudi Arabia. Medium orange in China and Brazil. Light orange in Kazakhstan. Very light orange in Australia and India.

Oil production as a percentage of global production by country

Countries

World

Oil Production (%)

Percent of world production

Utah

Wyoming

Alberta

None

A map of North America highlighting oil shale or tar sands areas shaded in red. The region along the boundary of Utah in the northeast along with Wyoming is shaded. The northern region of Alberta is also shaded.

Locations of major sedimentary rock formations and loose sands containing petroleum in North America

Oil Shale or Tar Sands

nature

Arizona

Idaho

Washington

Montana

North Dakota

Kentucky

Virginia

Saskatchewan

Mississippi

West Virginia

Nebraska

Texas

Missouri

Louisiana

Hawaii

Oregon

Alabama

New Mexico

Kansas

Wisconsin

Michigan

Pennsylvania

Colorado

Nevada

Maryland

Manitoba

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Ontario

California

Arkansas

South Dakota

Ohio

Indiana

Minnesota

Iowa

Illinois

A map highlights the regions of the world with areas affected by wind erosion highlighted in dark red and water erosion-affected areas highlighted in dark blue.

Areas of soil degradation where human activities result in high or very high levels of water and wind erosion

Soil Erosion

In North America, wind erosion significantly impacts the Great Plains in southern Canada and the adjacent northern Great Plains of the United States. This issue extends to the southern plains, affecting regions in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. Water erosion is prevalent in the eastern plains, the Midwest, parts of the Mississippi River Valley, Michigan, southern Ontario, and the mountainous areas of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. In the western United States, water erosion affects parts of California and eastern Washington, while wind erosion is notable in the deserts of southern California, Arizona, and Nevada. Western Mexico faces water erosion along its length, which continues through Central America to Panama and includes major Caribbean islands like Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Wind erosion is also observed in northern Mexico. In South America, water erosion is prominent along the Andes mountains from Venezuela to Bolivia, in central Chile south of Santiago, and along Brazil's Atlantic coast from Recife southward to southeastern areas. The southern Andes of Bolivia and northern Chile experience wind erosion, as does east-central Brazil. Northwestern Europe sees minimal soil erosion, but water erosion does occur in Spain, southeastern and central Europe, and western Russia, extending into Siberia in Asia. Ukraine and southern Russia are susceptible to wind erosion. In North Africa, wind erosion affects the northern Sahara from Algeria to western Egypt and extends across the Sahel from Mauritania to Sudan. Sub-Saharan Africa has scattered water erosion patches in West Africa, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, southern Africa (notably South Africa), and Madagascar. Southwest Asia experiences widespread wind erosion on the Arabian Peninsula and in Iran, while water erosion impacts Turkey, northern Iran, Yemen, and southern Oman. Central Asia faces water erosion in northwestern Kazakhstan and Afghanistan. In South Asia, northwest India deals with wind erosion, whereas water erosion is widespread across India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and parts of Bangladesh. Southeast Asia encounters extensive water erosion in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia (particularly Borneo and Java). East Asia experiences water erosion in large parts of eastern China and wind erosion in northern China, eastern Mongolia, and various areas in western China. In Oceania, small areas of water erosion are found in eastern and western Australia, Vanuatu, and New Zealand’s North Island.

ISRIC World Soil Information

Alaska

Yukon

Northwest Territories

District of Columbia

Florida

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

Nunavut

Maine

Nova Scotia

Delaware

Prince Edward Island

North Carolina

New Brunswick

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

New Jersey

South Carolina

Connecticut

Massachusetts

Georgia

New York

Québec

A map displaying political units in 1914. The map shows the boundaries of the countries marked in green. The border of India, at this time under British colonial rule, includes present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Political Units, 1914

Library of Congress

Acid Rain

African Languages

Agricultural Regions

Anthropogenic Biomes

Approximate Form and Extent of Outcrop of Carbonate Rocks

Aquifers: Distribution and Recharge

Areas Affected by Acid Rain

Areas Affected by Trypanosomiasis

Areas at Risk of Soil Degradation

Average Annual Precipitation

Average Annual Snowfall

Average Distribution of Dew Point Temperatures, January

Average Distribution of Dew Point Temperatures, July

Average Number of Hail Storms

Average Number of Tornado Incidences per Year (U.S.)

Bantu Migrations

Barren or Sparsely Vegetated Areas

Biomes

British Conquest of India

British Empire, Early 1920s

Caribbean Languages

Chinese Empires

Climate Zones

Cold Front

Colonial Possessions, 1914

Continental Shelf

Core Diamond Mining Areas

Days with Heavy Fog

Deforestation: Net Loss, 2000-2015

Deserts and Desertification Risk

Distribution of Calcium Carbonate in Modern Surface Sediments

Distribution of Neritic (Nearshore) and Pelagic (Open Ocean) Sediments

Drought Risk

Drug Cultivation and Production Regions

Early Sub-Saharan States and Empires

Earthquake Hazard Areas (U.S.)

Ecological Regions: Level 1 Regions

Ethnic and Cultural Regions

Ethnic Diversity

Ethnic Groups (Iraq and Iran)

European Settlement Expansion

Forest Types, 1900

Former Soviet Republics

Former Warsaw Pact Members

General Area of Sedimentary Formations Favorable to Oil

Geographic Areas Under Dispute

Geology Rock Type

Global Mean Temperature, January

Global Mean Temperature, July

Global Surface Warming: Best-Case Projections

Global Surface Warming: Worst-Case Projections (IPCC)

Global Surface Warming: Worst-Case Projections (NASA)

Global Temperature Change

Groundwater Salinization

Habitat Fragmentation

Herder's Environment

Human Occupation

Oil Production (%)			Oil Shale or Tar Sands	Soil Erosion		Political Units, 1914
Class	Rank	Percent of world production	Oil Shale or Tar Sands	Wind erosion	Water erosion	Alaska Territory, United States	Canada	Hawaii, United States	Mexico	United States












			11.5%	18.0%	18.3%	97.8%	95.5%	76.1%	0.127%	98.7%

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Oil Production (%)