In Dec Engaging Data created an interesting animated map to present the 'true size' of countries closed to the world. The Real Country Sizes Shown on Mercator Projection map allows you lot to switch betwixt countries equally they seem using the Mercator projection together with their 'true size'.
Engaging Data has right away created a like map which scales each U.S. of A. province past times the size of its population. Press the 'Click to Show Population Size' push on the Scaling the Physical Size of States to Reflect Population map together with each province on the maps shrinks to effectively exercise a cartogram of the U.S. of A. where the size of each province relates to their relative populations. Each of the states are too colored to reverberate the size of the state's population. The final result is thence a choropleth cartogram. Just click on the 'Click to Show Physical Size' push to switch dorsum to the choropleth map view.
If you lot click on a province on the map you lot tin persuasion the state's actual population. You tin too persuasion how much the novel size of the province is equally a pct of the state's master copy size on the map. This figure gives you lot an indication of how densely or sparsely populated a province is. For example, the re-scaled Alaska is only 0.1% of its master copy size. This is because the province is really large together with has a relatively pocket-size population. New Bailiwick of Jersey on the other mitt remains the same size (100% of its master copy size), reflecting that it is America's closed to densely populated state.
