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Mapping the World Without Using Land Area

Written by Neil Galloway

This is one of the coolest sites I have seen in awhile. Worldmapper generates a variety of world maps that take into account different variables.

It takes your normal world map and then resizes the regions based on the criteria you choose. For example, Canada is the largest region on a normal map because of its land area. But if the criteria is population, then China and India become the largest countries on the map.

It is impressive, because the countries still retain the shape somewhat, so it makes it easy to recognize.

My only criticism is that most of the maps are based on gross numbers. So the big countries are always dominating the maps. They need to use more "per capita" values to see countries that are outside the norm.

Here are some examples. The first is a normal map and then the second one is a map of the world based on population. I have listed some more examples as well.

Land Area

Population

Wealth

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2 Comments

Ovedya Says:
2007-03-26 14:36:09
Just thought you should know. It's worldmapper.org. not .com

Great find, though!

neil Says:
2007-03-26 17:17:54
Thanks Ovedya, I fixed the link.