A cartogram posted on Reddit shows what the world looks like if you scale countries by their population. Watch out China! India is catching up... World maps distort — it's inherent in their design.

Scientists have developed cartograms—maps that convey information by contorting areas—to visualize the risks of climate change in a novel way. Cartograms are maps that change the relative size of ...

I've spent a lot of time thinking about maps this election. Australia has an interesting problem when showing election results on a map – because of our vast landscape, with population centres ...

A look back in time: This cartogram resizes each country by its population in 2005. World maps distort. It's inherent in their design. Take a spherical object (the Earth) and try to represent it on a ...