We are the world

[andrewducker]

This is the world:

This is the distribution of its people:


It's fascinating how the differences really appear in the far North - Canada, the Scandinavian countries and Russia particularly.

Comments

[simont]

On that map it has the third largest area of any country: 9396 pixels, below China (17325) and India (12920) and above the USA (3164). Even counting penguins, that can't be right! Presumably it was missed out of the rescaling algorithm. (Due, perhaps to no population data being recorded for it at all, or something like that.)

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Nope - same problem as the far North, allegedly: the underlying map is a Mercator projection and has a massive increase in local scale towards the poles.