India Grows, Canada Disappears: Mapping Countries By Population : Goats and Soda : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/01/28/381971608/india-grows-russia-shrinks-mapping-countries-by-population
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World maps distort — it’s inherent in their design.
Take a spherical object (the Earth) and try to represent it on a flat plane (paper), and some parts of the sphere are going to get stretched. On most maps, Canada and Russia get puffed up, while countries along the equator get shrunk.
Every now and then, though, you stumble across a map that enlightens.
A look back in time: This cartogram resizes each country by its population in 2005. i
A look back in time: This cartogram resizes each country by its population in 2005.
Paul Breding
That’s how we felt when we saw the awesome map made by Reddit user TeaDranks. The map resizes countries based on their population. It’s simple: Each square represents 500,000 people.
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