One of my favourite TV shows was the West Wing. It is no longer on the air, but one episode featured a cartographer trying to get those with political power to accept a map which basically puts the "south" on the top of the map and the "north" on the bottom. This is the map that is shown above. This is all well and good for getting us to think about how we can equate North with good and south with bad...among other things...but today I came across a website which has hundreds of maps according to hundreds of different statistics.
Check it out. Play around with the different maps...they are amazing to view. Especially try looking at the maps which track Disease. Africa becomes the biggest continent while others shrink...very interesting stuff.
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