Friday, May 04, 2007

Map of the World

I liked this strange map, which distorts the world so that areas of countries indicate population sizes. India and China stand out as the biggies (click for a bigger picture):


One of the great features is that countries whose names I've forgotten have conveniently disappeared.

4 comments:

John Dekker said...

Oh, that's the next one that I was going to post on my blog.

missmellifluous said...

But Australia is squashed!


I'm so glad you guys are enjoying these maps. They're so fun!

ish said...

Antarctica looks pretty big. Penguins?

Paul (probably - maybe Liz) said...

:) Reminds me of "The King and I".