fredag 8 januari 2016

The map that will change how you see the world

Source: TeaDranks/Vox
From World Economic Forum
How do you view your country relative to others? Chances are if it’s based on most world maps, your view is distorted.

Trying to represent a sphere on a flat surface is inherently problematic. Those countries along the equator seem smaller, while nations such as Canada and Russia are commonly stretched and appear larger than reality.

But what if countries were scaled based on their population?