The worst place in the world?

A new geospatial competition for students has them trying to map out where the best or worst places in the world would be for different purposes. The Where in the World Challenge, from NGA, describes it like this:

The Intent for “Where in the World” challenge is to develop anticipatory spatiotemporal analytic skills to create and report “from the future” on the five best and five worst places to live on earth in the year 2025 based on ONE of the following criteria:

• Overall best and worst places for all combined factors
• Overall best and worst places for Water Resources
• Overall best and worst places for Energy Resources
• Overall best and worst places for Food Security
• Overall best and worst places for Health
• Overall best and worst places for Risk for Natural Disaster

A “place” could be a region, a country, a region within a country, or a large city.

 The deadline for registration is soon, so look into ASAP.