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December 2010 issue	Table of Contents Attawapiskat First Nation International Space Station Endangered icons Is that the right whale? Animal reactions Curling community Native foods The Inside Story Editor’s Notebook Reverberations À la carte In habitat Book Reviews Interview with Jerry Kobalenko ----------------------------------------------- Past issues

The human globe
If the size of populations dictated the size of nations, the world map would look very different
By Steven Fick and Tyrone Burke

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Mapping countries proportional to their population rather than land mass yields a very different picture of our world, as this cartogram shows. Here we see tiny Bangladesh — smaller in area than Ellesmere Island yet bulging with 164 million people — trump Russia. Nigeria outsizes all Saharan and Sahelian countries west of the Nile combined. And our beloved Canada? It suffers major shrinkage. The cartogram was created by Mapping Worlds with data from the United Nations Population Division. For more information or to order the map as a poster that features the world’s major cities, visit www.mappingworlds.com.

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