Cartographer Benjamin D. Henning draws maps, not of geographical spaces, but of social ones.
Through his maps, Henning tries to give the viewer a better understanding of how and where people actually live.
“When we turn to maps to understand people, we’re usually looking at a lot of wasted space. About 95% of the world’s population lives on 10% of the land," says Emily Badger from the FastCompany.
"That means that 90% of land area shown on a typical map isn’t telling us anything about human populations, how they live, or what their challenges are.”
This population cartogram below is one of Henning’s ways of drawing the world in terms of its people, rather than its land. Unsurprisingly there is a big bulge on the East China seaboard...
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