Atlas of the Real World
UPDATE: Here is the home page for worldmapper, where you can find hundreds of these maps. Thanks to Brian
Eighteen very cool maps of the world not the way we normally perceive it from a new book Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman and Anna Barford called The Atlas of the Real World. It uses “software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. Here, we select a series of travel- and news-related maps. Here are three of the more interesting ones”
The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live
International Immigrants: The size of each territory indicates the number of international immigrants living there. The United States receives the highest number of international immigrants, while Andorra has the highest proportion – four out of five people in Andorra are immigrants. The Philippines and Guyuna have the lowest proportion – just one in 500.
HIV prevalenceThe size of each territory shows the number of people aged 15 to 49 with HIV. The highest prevalence exists in Swaziland, where 38 per cent of 15 to 49-year-olds carry the virus. More than a fifth of people in Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia, within this age range, carry HIV.
Alcohol consumption
The size of each nation shows the total quantity of alcohol consumed. Per person, the world’s heaviest drinkers are Ugandans, followed by people in Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Ireland, Moldova and France.
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This is very interesting, especially the alcohol consumption. I would not have thought this before reading this article. I’m going to have to check out this new book. Thanks for sharing.
yeah, a number of these surprised me. thanks for dropping by
Cool, this is a really neat way of visually representing these things!
This is a clever way of looking at the world. I’d like to check out the new book too. Where can I find it? Thank you for sharing.
I guess you could do a search at Amazon. Click on the links for the maps–maybe the author provides a place to order.
Thanks
Hi Ruach,
So thanks for sharing this maps. Cool features worth to learn more.
I am pretty amazed too, it is interesting comparison because in nowadays these features are only relevant. There is no more issues about borders but it is interesting how different features change the world map. I am from Czech Republic and the case of alcohol is just making me smile. Though we are proud to be one of the biggest consumers of alcoholic beverages especially bear because we are the world best producers. And we have heavy tourism industry from GB, Germany, Holland and other surrounding countries especially because of our cheap alcohol
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Last night someone (from the U.S.) told me about being shocked when they went to the hospital in a European country and found that you could buy beer in vending machines. Never seen that in America
Ziata–I hope you are the best producers of beer and not of bear!!
Very interesting thank you for sharing
This is interesting research.
HAha no wonder ireland is one of the big drinkers!
Cool post, very interesting
yeah, a number of these surprised me. thanks for dropping by
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I don’t know now but once it was told in hospitals in the UK that “Guiness (Irish dark beer) is good for you”. Is it relevant to Alcohol consumption? Ireland is listed above. There are many Irish people around the world but there are only 5 million in Ireland.
How can Canada be so small on the immigration scale??
Very very interesting. I’m surprised why Lithuanian isn’t in the top of alcohol consumption. Haha.
This is a very neat post. Glad to have seen this.
Hi folks! Nice blog, huh? Keep going this way. Cheers!
Where’s the one for most intelligence?
Amazing creativity
I never knew that the Korean Penninsula could be that big! Haha, lols!
Interesting…
It would be great to see a map of laziness! Which countries are the laziest? Does anybody have any idea how would world of laziness look like?
My geography class were all looking at these today, we found them really interesting.
nice information for alcohol consumed. I think ….Alcohol affects every organ in the body. It is a central nervous system depressant that is rapidly absorbed from the stomach and small intestine into the bloodstream