Cartograms

The map to the left is a cartogram of the world's economy. A cartogram is a map where area is not preserved and many times they are used to represent the size of populations relative to the area in which they inhabit. There are two main types of cartograms: area and distance. This map shows that North America, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea have the largest GDP.









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