How the world shapes up
I find these visualizations of nation sizes based on different factors quite fascinating. (This is more an anchor for my future reference). Here’s one comparing housing prices:
It would be interesting to see actual numbers on the land-mass differences between real and visual.
UPDATE: I’m getting all this through Daring Fireball, who posted an update on the real source of these images.
March 25th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Very cool. Thanks for the link…though it doesn’t seem to discern Alaska from the rest of the US in that image…