A Different View of Our Nation

For Immediate Release

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The third week in November is National Geography Awareness Week. To celebrate the occasion, researchers Ned English and Katie Dekker of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) created a map of how the United States would look if each state’s land area were proportional to its population. This kind of map – a cartogram – provides an interesting and different view of our nation.

USA Cartogram

To see a cartogram of the world, click here.