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The Atlas of the Real World (pics) (telegraph.co.uk)
41 points by nickb on Oct 1, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Fun to: guess what the map was representing, then scroll down to see if I was even close.


Pretty cool, but I'm not sure I understand all of the distortion. Perhaps if they are using much smaller territories than the color coding, for example each state of the US, that would give rise to some of the shear.


France & Spain do OK from tourists huh? Australia, Africa & the US get sucked off the map.


If you liked that, you will REALLY like http://www.gapminder.org


Funny to see the Netherlands appear on a worldmap for a change :)




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