Thursday, September 21, 2006

Worldmapper

Check out these fantastic maps from worldmapper. Only the first map shown here is the true geographical size. The other examples are resized according to characteristics of that country, here, population and toy imports and exports. Look on the website... there are hundreds of other interesting ones.

Each territory's size on the map is drawn according to its land area.


The size of each territory shows the relative proportion of the world's population living there.


Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide net imports of toys (in US$) that are received there. Net imports are imports minus exports. When exports are larger than imports the territory is not shown.


Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide net exports of toys (in US$) that come from there. Net exports are exports minus imports. When imports are larger than exports the territory is not shown.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

too cool -very intriguing!
~kentuckymama