Australia

New Zealand

Australia & Oceania

Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean

Kazakhstan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

South Korea

Taiwan

East Asia

Azerbaijan

Russia

Eurasia

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Northern Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Europe

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Peru

Venezuela

Latin America

Canada

Mexico

United States

North America

Bangladesh

India

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Algeria

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Kuwait

Morocco

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Southwest Asia and North Africa

South Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlighting the countries for the percentage of natural gas consumed. Highest consumers, the U S A, Russia, and China are shaded dark blue. Moderate consumers, Canada, India, and Brazil, are shaded light to medium blue. Least consumers, Australia and Kazakhstan are cream-shaded.

Natural gas consumption as a percentage of world consumption by country

Countries

World

Natural Gas Consumption (%)

Percent of world consumption

Alaska

Arizona

Utah

Yukon

Northwest Territories

District of Columbia

Florida

Idaho

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

Washington

Wyoming

Nunavut

Montana

Maine

North Dakota

Kentucky

Nova Scotia

Virginia

Delaware

Prince Edward Island

Saskatchewan

Mississippi

West Virginia

Nebraska

Texas

Missouri

Louisiana

Hawaii

North Carolina

Oregon

New Brunswick

Alabama

New Mexico

Kansas

Wisconsin

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

New Jersey

South Carolina

Michigan

Alberta

Connecticut

Pennsylvania

Colorado

Nevada

Massachusetts

Georgia

New York

Maryland

Québec

Manitoba

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Ontario

California

Arkansas

South Dakota

Ohio

Indiana

Minnesota

Iowa

Illinois

None

A map shows areas of insolation (incoming solar radiation) across the world, categorized by watts per square meter.

Average annual levels of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface

Insolation

The map illustrates global insolation, showing variations in incoming solar radiation from the tropics to the polar regions. In the Northern Hemisphere, high insolation (220 to 280 plus watts per square meter), highlighted as dark green to dark red spans from northwestern Mexico through southern Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean, across the Atlantic to North Africa and Southwest Asia, with peaks in the eastern Sahara and Arabian Peninsula. In the Southern Hemisphere, high insolation areas stretch from East Africa to South Africa and across the Indian Ocean to most of Australia, with other high insolation zones in the Central Pacific and south-central South America. Middle insolation values (120 to 219 watts per square meter), highlighted as light blue to green, are found between 50 degrees north and 50 degrees south latitude, excluding high insolation regions. Low insolation areas (80 to 119 watts per square meter), highlighted as blue to light blue, are located north of the 50-degree lines to the poles in North America, the North Atlantic, and Eurasia, and around the Southern Ocean in Antarctica. The lowest insolation values (less than 80 watts per square meter), highlighted as dark blue, are in the ocean east of northern Greenland.

NOAA

Watts per square meter (W/m²)

A world map shows national parks highlighted in green.

Locations of terrestrial and marine protected areas

National Parks

In North America, national parks are scattered across northern and western Canada, Canada’s Arctic islands, and eastern Canada’s Great Lakes region, Saint Lawrence River Valley, and Maritime Provinces. In the United States, larger national parks are mainly in Alaska and the western states, with a few sizeable parks in the East, including Florida and the Appalachians. Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean have smaller national parks. Most of northeastern Greenland is a national park. In South America, national parks are concentrated in the Amazon basin and in the Patagonian Andes and Tierra del Fuego in the south. In Europe, parks are widely distributed from Iceland to Russia, including the UK, Norway, the Alps, Spain, and southeastern Europe. North Africa and the Sahara have few parks, with some in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Western Sahara, and coastal Mauritania. Sub-Saharan Africa has parks scattered across West, East, and southern Africa, with the largest parks in East Africa along the Great Rift Valley to southern Africa. Madagascar has small parks. Southwest and Central Asia have few parks, with some in Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. South Asia’s parks run along the Himalayas from Pakistan to Bhutan, with small parks in India and Sri Lanka. In Southeast Asia, Thailand and Indonesia have numerous parks, while other countries have fewer. East Asia shows parks in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, but none in China, North Korea, or Mongolia. Oceania features numerous parks in Australia and New Zealand, mainly on New Zealand’s South Island.

Natural Gas Consumption (%)			Insolation										National Parks
Class	Rank	Percent of world consumption	240–259	220–239	200–219	180–199	160–179	140–159	120–139	100–119	80–99	Less than 80	Arches	Aulavik National Park of Canada	Auyuittuq National Park of Canada	Badlands	Banff National Park of Canada	Bering Land Bridge National Park	Big Bend	Canyonlands	Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada	Capitol Reef	Channel Islands	Congaree	Crater Lake	Death Valley	Denali	Everglades	Fundy National Park of Canada	Glacier Bay	Glacier National Park of Canada	Glacier	Grand Canyon	Grand Teton	Great Basin	Great Sand Dunes	Great Smoky Mountains	Gros Morne National Park of Canada	Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve of Canada and Haida Heritage Site	Haleakala	Hawai'i Volcanoes	Isle Royale	Ivvavik National Park of Canada	Jasper National Park of Canada	Joshua Tree	Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site of Canada	Kenai Fjords	Kings Canyon	Kluane National Park Reserve of Canada	Kobuk Valley	Kootenay National Park of Canada	Kouchibouguac National Park of Canada	Lassen Volcanic	Mammoth Cave	Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve	Mount Rainier	Nááts'ihch'oh National Park Reserve of Canada	Nahanni National Park Reserve of Canada	North Cascades	Olympic	Parc national Kuururjuaq	Parc national Tursujuq	Prince Albert National Park of Canada	Pukaskwa National Park of Canada	Qausuittuq National Park of Canada	Quttinirpaaq National Park of Canada	Redwood	Riding Mountain National Park of Canada	Rocky Mountain	Saguaro	Shenandoah	Sirmilik National Park of Canada	Theodore Roosevelt	Torngat Mountains National Park Reserve of Canada	Tuktut Nogait National Park of Canada	Ukkusiksalik National Park of Canada	Vuntut National Park of Canada	Wapusk National Park of Canada	Wood Buffalo National Park of Canada	Yellowstone	Yoho National Park of Canada	Yosemite	Zion












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MapMaster 3

Natural Gas Consumption (%)