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Chacabuco is one of the many abandoned nitrate or "saltpeter" towns ("oficinas salitreras" in Spanish) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. [1] Other nitrate towns of the Atacama Desert include Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works .
United Kingdom: The World Prison Brief (WPB) site does not list an incarceration rate for the United Kingdom as a whole, that includes all its territories, and other subnational areas, etc.: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, British Virgin Islands. They ...
English: World map of prison population rates from World Prison Brief. See the date on the map. Rate is per 100,000 of national population. For the exact numbers click on the source link below and then go to the table tab. See also: List of countries by incarceration rate.
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That was the 5th highest rate in the world. [3] [1] In 2021, the United States had 1,767,200 inmates in adult facilities (prisons and jails). [3] This left America with the highest prison population if China's latest official number (2018) of 1,690,000 (sentenced prisoners only) were used.
The two scientists discovered that saltpeter formed inside the walls of the caves of the doline, under certain conditions of humidity and temperature. [9] Prior to the discovery, nitraries were widespread all over the Kingdom of Naples. Manure was collected by the government and used to make saltpeter, which was a key ingredient for gunpowder ...
At the southernmost tip of Argentina's Patagonia sits 'the prison of the end of the world.' The country banished prisoners here in the early 1900s to colonize the region.