The Vlogbrothers produced a video of 42 fascinating maps. And since I love maps…
Alas, much of the 4 minute video is of the narrator and his every breath is edited out, making him seem rather frantic. But the YouTube page has links to all the maps online.
A few of my favorites:
A map that shows how 7 billion humans are distributed across the world:
1. North America, South America, Australia, and New Zealand.
2. Africa.
3. Europe and the Middle East.
4. Most of Asia (excluding below)
5. Southern India, Bangladesh, and Burma.
6. Central China.
7. Southern China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Click in the little image towards the top-left of this page.
A map with a circle (projected onto a globe then flattened) that includes China, India, Japan, and Indonesia. More of the world's population is inside the circle than outside. The center of the circle is Guiyang, Guizhou Province in Southwest China. The radius is only 4100 km.
A series of maps where the size of the country is pumped up or shrunk depending on some measure, such as GDP. This collection has been around for a while and I wrote about it a long time ago.
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