India Grows, Russia Shrinks: Mapping Countries By Population

World maps distort. It's inherent in their design.

Take a spherical object (the Earth) and try to represent it on a flat plane (paper). Some parts of the sphere are going to get distorted. (On most maps, Canada and Russia get puffed up, while countries along the equator get shrunk.)

Every now and then, though, you stumble across a map that enlightens.

That's how we felt when we saw the awesome map made by Reddit user TeaDranks. The map resizes countries based on their population.



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