How the world really shapes up
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:56 pm
How the world really shapes up | the Daily Mail
We all know what the world looks like. But a new series of extraordinary maps shows our planet in a very different light.
Rather than defining each country by size, these computer-generated modified maps - or cartograms - redraw the globe with each country's size proportionate to its strengths, or weaknesses, in a whole series of categories.