The Map That Will Change The Way You See The World
How do you view your country relative to others? Chances are if it’s based on most world maps, your view is distorted.
As the world turns its gaze to the rich and pretty people in Davos this coming week, The World Economic Forum unleashed the following cartogram, created by Reddit user TeaDranks, that could change your entire perception of the world. Cartograms scale a region’s geographic space according to a particular attribute and in this case each square now represents 500,000 people.
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We all know that India and China have large populations, but this map emphasises their size on a global scale. Compared to conventional world maps, the two Asian powerhouses dominate. Along with several East Asian neighbours – Bangladesh, Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia – their contribution to the global population is clear.
The size of Nigeria and Brazil compared to the rest of Africa and Latin America is equally apparent.
The map also effectively highlights the contribution of cities and regions to total populations. For example, the greater Tokyo region accounts for a significant proportion of Japan’s overall population. Equally, Delhi, Shanghai and Mumbai all occupy areas larger than many European nations.
At the other end of the scale, some economies which are barely visible on traditional world maps appear much larger on the cartogram. Consider the cases of Hong Kong and Taiwan, whose relatively large populations compared to their geographical sizes see them feature much more prominently.
Conversely, some countries which are very large on conventional maps can barely be seen. Canada, Russia and Australia are much smaller in TeaDranks’ representation, which was inspired by Paul Breding’s 2005 work. Canada in particular disappears almost entirely.
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I think us Canadians need to team up with the Russians - even if it's a winter ice road for starters - and maybe think about moving that proposed Trump Fence up to the 49th parallel just to be on the safe side. Certainly can't rely on the Yankees when their oligarchs can't even get a decent slate together for their Presidential Selections!
That ought to at least get the attention of Florida, which fills up every winter with Canadians. But that border is so long. Sounds expensive. Might it be cheaper to build a fence at the top of Florida? Might it be even cheaper to just build a fence at the top of Miami?
Yeah, there is no rush of illegal americans invading your country. We could open up the prisons and start sending them across for a fresh start eh?
It won't be much longer. Soon the tide will reverse, and Americans will be heading to South America.
We'll do a Mike McDonald fence...solid, twenty feet high with loud speakers of winter winds blowing snow.... The Yankee invaders will hear winter, and go..."Oh man, I'm not going in there".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etUfKKOSNaQ
USA corp = shitbag psychopaths in charge who lord over others and mind every one else’s business.
USA corp = conglomerate of various criminal gangs who extort natural resources from everyone else on this planet.
USA corp = Sell me some more of dem freedums please. Con me into voting for you so each and every year you restrict my ability to travel, conduct legal business and generally make it impossible for me to pursue happiness.
USA corp = Financialize my water, my air, my education. Drown my business in taxes and regulations. Make it so that no matter how small and insignificant I am I am still required to pay rent to live on the planet I was born on. Choke me.
USA corp = Steal my money. Devalue my money. Tax my money. Sell me bullshit and tell me it is for the good myself and others.
I'm sure many will look at this map and see the large size of their Country and think this is a good thing
ooops
and as for maps and world visions, how about the way we view our heavens?
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What happened to the Seychelles and Kiribatti? Do they not matter?
And I guess Sao Tome got eaten by Nigeria. Makes sense.
I'm guessing the largest ones have the highest chance of cannibalism in the future.
I'll stick to the one's that produce wheat and beef. Doubt the Chinese and Indians will be swimming over to steal food when TSHF.
My technical analysis:
Countries contaminated by leftism, progressivism, LGBTism, feminism and very high women right: disappearing into oblivion.
Countries having less or not such things: growing and eating the disappearing nation.
Europe (and USA) are doomed and will lose the Darwin game unless shit get done.
The overpopulated countries will not survive. They will pollute themselves to death. They will become so poor that new diseases will decimate their populations. I don't worry about them. I just worry about TPTB "rescuing" them by sending them our tax dollars and inviting them over here to lower our wages and commit all manner of crimes, giving TPTB excuses for spying on us and taking all our freedoms away.
No wrong! Low birthrate feminized counties will get invaded: look at Germany !
S0YL3NT GR33N!!! motherfuckers
Meh, methinks that's over rated. What really matters is whether you have a crapper or not?
"With over 600 million people in India or 53 per cent of Indian households defecating in the open, the absence of toilets/latrines is one of the major contributors to malnutrition, a World Bank report has said."
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/more-than-half-of-indi...
Pity India, so many bums, so few crappers.
But they've got dough to spend on aircraft carriers, fighter jets and nukes to protect the homeland from invaders bearing toilets.
Over in the Land of China why there's some different issues like the air they breathe and the poisoned land and waterways. But boy oh boy, don't them western investors love all that.
Pottying outdoors causes malnutrition?
Expect what causes pottying outdoors goes hand in hand with malnutrition.
Point being over populated hardly makes a country a desirable place to reside. Nor does being underpopulated necessarily create the opposite.
This was kind of dumb article anyway. Yeah some countires have too many people and some too few. So what's the answer to that according to the master planners?
Amen. Indians potty outdoors BECAUSE India is so overpopulated. Pottying outdoors is an effect, not a cause.
Homo sapiens is a hunter-gatherer species. Homo sapiens living crowded is unnatural and unhealthy, and makes for unhappiness.
I would like my grandchildren's grandchildren to live in a world in which they can actually go out on horseback with bows and arrows and hunt wild buffalo. That's what homo sapiens are made to do. Instead they sit in dark rooms in front of their computers playing stockmarket games or machinegun games. Unhealthy unhappy.
Wow it sure does apparently Canada doesn't exist.
canada is AMERICA's hat
More like a do-rag based on the map.
Canada is America's asshat. FIFY. We are to polite to care or notice.
Bubbles
What the map said is that we don't have many people, yet we are the second largest land mass in the world...
Which reminds me of an old joke...When God made the world he finished it by making Canada. Up until this time He had just been practising. This time He used all His power and made the grandest Rockie Mountains, He put most of the world's fresh water there, He made vast prairies with deep fertile top soil. The Grand Banks full of fish, the Shield full of gold and silver. He filled the place with caribou, deer, elk, buffalo, moose. Then He stored all the remaining oil and gas under ground there.
The angel Micheal took a look and asked Him if it was a good idea to give so much to so few of people? The Lord said..." I'm making it up to them...wait until you see who they have for neighbours".
liberals are fucking pieces of shit
This is the only 'map that will change the world' that anyone should pay attention to (to get the yoke off their neck)
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/israel/greater_israel_files/planned.gif
but this is not the real map... is it... suckers...
Being underpopulated is a positive and nothing to be worried about.You should consider yourself very lucky to be living in such a place. You sure would not want to be born in those many other overpopulated shit holes ,whose population doubled in the last 30 years.Nigeria,Ethiopia,Egypt,India..........
Except that there are always plenty of volunteers to help you solve your underpopulation problem. Nature abhors a vacuum and all that...
just think how much gold Canadians have per citizen.... rich....we should team up with Putin.
Yes it has. Little India needs to cut the shit. I've never been there, but it must stink to high hell.
I lived in New Delhi for a year and a half. You can smell it about a half hour before you land. It took me awhile to decipher the smell, but it is a combination of diesel , urine, marsala and body odor. It's pervasive.
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Go ahead you ƒµç???$, try ƒµç?ing with Canada!
We all know that pansy-boy Trudeau is just a momentary hysteric by a bunch of women who voted.
We'll begin by offering to drink you under the goddamn table, just to be nice. We’ll even buy the rounds for you. And apologise when you barf your guts up…
If you’ve still got the fire in you, the next morning…
Then, when you've really pissed us off, we'll get out the millions of guns we've got hidden everywhere.
Not those feminized semi's, but the full auto's that everyone knows we've got hidden all over the place!
Good scam, eh!? Crappy gun laws that nobody pays attention to, eh?!
Remember that story how we sent 1 RCMP officer to turn back a whole invasion of Indians in the 1800’s?
Yeah…
Don’t you forget it.
Don’t screw with us.
We’re small, but we’re nasty when we’re drunk.
And high.
And we’re always drunk. And high.
We make the best pot…
And you know it.
BC bud.
And the best booze.
Think the Scottish, and the Irish, and the English, and take the worst pricks of the bunch, and it’s us.
Longest shot by a sniper, too. And he walked up on the guy!
Didn’t want to show his true skills! 1.8 miles is nothing! Open sights.
Kicked the Jerry’s asses in WW I. And WW II
We out fly everyone in the Top Gun competition.
You’ve never even heard of the JTF.
When the Yanks pissed us off, we marched down to Washington and burnt the capital down.
Anyone else beat them in a war. Back in 1812.
Anybody else done that?
No.
We are the GREAT WHITES in the GREAT WHITE NORTH to your SEALS.
We eat SEALS for breakfast.
In America.
Goddamn Newfis, beat’n their heads in with bats, too. And the world whines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFPt001PYU
We give them nightmares and send them home, whimpering for mommy.
And we got gold. Tons of it. Everywhere. It’s the underground currency.
Just. Don’t.
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That map illustrates why Russia is the next superpower and why China is not.
Although...if the US invaded and took over Canada they might have a shot at superpower status again.
Once it got rid of the deadwood in the halls of power that is.
When the shit starts hitting the fan perhaps it is better to live in one of those less densely populated places with lots of stocks and guns.
jack up the price of food and watch them all die off as they turn to canibalism.
Who is them? Them is all your fathers, mother, brothers, sisters, and blood relations? Should they all die?
Are they ready to eat each other? Can someone start jacking the price of food for you and your family?
Bloody retard posing as a Chinese. or are you a Guo Chia chinese sitting in a foreign country?
At least we know the world won't starve right away when agriculture dies.
*Crimea officially classified as Russia. I love that.
"Crimea officially classified as Russia", Coincidentally, so did the people of Crimea...or do elections only count when they support US/Israeli imperialism?
In 2004 62 million people voted in george W bush, out of a nation of 330 million, 220 million of voting age. So 19% of Americans equal a viable result?
Don't hate Russia for what America has become.
Very Interesting Map. I am sure there are many variations of similar maps that project different aspect of being a Nation.
Brics seems quite big and bright on the Map.
India and China are big and also represent the oldest civilizations. They are also the least aggressive and do not have military excursions outside their border. Both Indians and Chinese also share another character. The majority that went out to work all over the world, always send money home and always dream one day of returning home.
To a home where some of the commentators say people shit in the open. In fact Indians find it funny that people whould shit inside their own home.
If America is so great as we all tend to believe, why do we need to go round the world, looking to steal other people's assets such as oil or mining commodities. Why can't we stay where we are, since we have everything?
I grew up in a very rural part of the US. I was raised to treat everybody as my equal, and generally still do. I didn't know anything about India until I was stationed in New Delhi in the early 90's. I tried to treat the people there as my equals. I showed compassion and empathy. I quickly learned not to bother with such ideals, as the locals, almost all of them, were out to take advantage of any, and everybody. Indian culture is corrupt to the core, and you generally can't trust, or rely on them (notable exceptions are Tibetans or Northeasterners---east of Assam---which are different ethnic groups/cultures).
Yes, people shit along the roads and railway tracks. If you ever have the good fortune to take a rail trip in India, you'll get to see tons of people shitting by the tracks in the morning or evening. And if you stick around long enough for monsoon, or just a rain event, you'll see people get cholera and die. All that pales in comparison with how the Indians shit on one another.
In my dealings with the Chinese, they seem to be even worse. My conclusion is that the value of human life is inversely proportional to the population.
If every one started taking showers with 20 gallons of water twice a day and flushing toilets 3 times a day (Very optimistic) a gallon each time India will be looking at (1.3 * 43) = 55.9 gallons of water. I will discount dishwashing and laundry for you to be very generic. Let alone americans enjoy the water while you can. Yes do you really want all Indians wasting water like you do in America. Its easy actually very easy to be an american. There is lots of trust in America I live right here in Brooklyn, people help each other so much that every time I need help my neighbors are waiting outside to help me. They don't ask for money they don't care if I am black or white or mexican. I am so thank ful to see the bright side of a 250 yr revolution. My grandkids and great grand kids will have so much more than the 43 gallons of water per day to waste I am way too excited to see the future. I can't wait to get married and have loads of kids where they are essentially grown up by the people of brooklyn. The family culture is great, so many honest woman wanting to stay with one man and my kids are grown up well mannered and wish every one hi and actually trust other kids with no hesitation. God Bless America the land of the free and opportunity and the land of everything .The land of trust. Lol
Law exists when there is no trust between the ruling entities and the following entities. There is 1.3 million lawyers per capita more than per capita doctors, soldiers and all esle. Examine your self before you start pointing a finger at some one else. When you point a finger at some one remember that there are 3 fingers pointed in your directon.
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/10/08/why-many-indians-cant-stan...
Winter? What winter? It is balmy here in Minnesota.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/st-cloud-mn/56303/weather-forecast/948
Moar mapz.
Per capita wealth of the top 1%, middle 1%, bottom 10%.
Porches per capita.
Teslas per capita.
Twitter traffic.
Percent illegal immigrants.
Gun ownership per capita.
How is it that all .gov's can think about is enlarging the population of ther countries.
They seem to think that because of the drop in population, this needs to be reversed, and a shitload of migrants need to be brought in to fix the problem. First off Canada has been thinking for many years that they need to increaase the population to be able to have lower taxes... I beg to differ, take a look at the most populated province in the country is the one with the largest debt. These politicians just want more tax $ to waste, no matter how much they collect in taxes they will spend far more and have huge debts that cannot be repaid. This is a finite planet maybe someone should send them to a geography class and an economics class as well.
These politicians are destroying the EZ creating havoc in the streets.
I dont want my country polluted with foreigners just like I don't want my home full of them either.
We are spiraling down into a black hole.
Population does not equal wealth, ask the Swiss, Chinese or Indians.
Mass population = more people
You don't gain wealth with mass, there is no beneficial relationship between population and living standards, quite the opposite, the greater resources to human ratio the higher living standards
When you try to "(click image for massive legible version)"
you get a malfunctioning page with the message:
The image "https://agenda.weforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1601B11-cartogram-..." cannot be displayed because it contains errors.
It's a conspiracy. Must be da jooos.
From everyone in Saskatchewan, Canada: We don't want anymore people, we like our space. Stay out.
Also see the CIA fact book
You will find that the no. of people
who can take to arms
are much moar in Asia
and along with Russia.
Asia dominates in military power too
(west may have nukes but.. who wants MAD)
Asia+Russia are dominant militarily
(Btw the best gun - AK47 is from here)
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What west does : prints money
& spends in brothels of Asia & Africa
where they get paid sex for 50$ or 50Euro per night
most western ppl who go to vacation in Asia & Africa
go for cheap sex
& cheap sex gives back STD
STD gnaws at the reproductive system
STD makes western ppl infertile
infertile so no children