Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Worldmapper Gridded Population Cartograms: The countries of the world as you've never seen them before

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Worldmapper has 200 new cartograms which show the world and its countries mapped based on population.  The maps “were created as part of a Leverhulme Trust project to remap the world and extend the Worldmapper project, have been created using population distribution data so viewers can understand how many people make up each nation.” Click on the map to see individual cartograms for each country or pick from the list of countries.

Worldmapper Gridded Population Cartograms: The countries of the world as you've never seen them before