Interactive map of world coal production for 2016.

"World Coal Production" is a free online knowledge level game to find which country produce most tonnes of coal in 2016. Interactive world map of coal production. Click on a region on the map to dig for coal, and collect 7 billions tonnes. A small educational game for desktop computers, laptops and tablets, which may be played in the web browser. The Geography Knowledge Board include world map and 30 hidden places to play with. The game is part of the Interactive World Maps educational tools.

There is the map of the world and 20 pickaxes on the top right of the screen. Click on the locations of the map to see how much tonnes of coal that region produce per year. The ammount of the coal production will be added in the bottom counter and one pickaxe will be lost. The purpose is to collect 7 billion tonnes of coal per year, before you run out of pickaxes. The amount and locations are approximate and some regions will yield 0 coal to make the exercise more difficult. The exact amounts of coal production by country are in the "class subject" section.

Coal is a mineral resource beneath the Earth's surface. At various times in the geologic past, the Earth had dense forests in low-lying wetland areas. Due to natural processes such as flooding, these forests were buried underneath soil. As more and more soil deposited over them, they were compressed. The temperature also rose as they sank deeper and deeper. As the process continued the plant matter was protected from biodegradation and oxidation, usually by mud or acidic water. This trapped the carbon in immense peat bogs that were eventually covered and deeply buried by sediments. Under high pressure and high temperature, dead vegetation was slowly converted to coal. As coal contains mainly carbon, the conversion of dead vegetation into coal is called carbonization. The following is a List of countries by coal production for 2016 from Wikipedia

Million tonnes per year

1 China 3411
2 India 692
3 United States 660
4 Australia 492
European Union 484
5 Indonesia 434
6 Russia 385
7 South Africa 251
8 Germany 176
9 Poland 131
10 Kazakhstan 102
11 Colombia 90
12 Turkey 70
13 Canada 60
14 Czech Republic 46
15 Ukraine 41
16 Vietnam 39
17 Serbia 38
18 Mongolia 38
19 Greece 33
20 Bulgaria 31
21 Romania 23
22 Thailand 17
23 Hungary 9
24 Brazil 8