Observed arrival · 2026-09-26
Stretchy Maps: the world resized by population
An interactive world map that reshapes countries by population, GDP, or numbers entered by the visitor.
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- Teachers and readers exploring population geography
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- It compares Bangladesh at roughly 21 times its true area while Australia contracts to about one-seventeenth.
Field notes
The page offers linear, square-root, and logarithmic scales, plus a choice between heat-flow and rubber-sheet map engines. Its examples quantify distortions: Bangladesh expands to about 21 times its true area, while Australia contracts to roughly one-seventeenth; the page also notes Mongolia as the largest shrinking large country. A teacher prompt asks students to predict which places grow or shrink before playing the warp.
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