Earlier I have posted the classic image of “Earth Lights at Night,” and discussed the classroom uses of the image. This cartogram helps take that analysis one step further. This cartogram helps students to visualize the magnitude of population (with the cartogram adjusting area for population) and then to see the patterns of energy use, global consumption and urbanization with in a new light.
Tags: remote sensing, worldwide, consumption, poverty, population, spatial, political, regions.
See on www.viewsoftheworld.net
GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION 
October 3, 2012 at 8:57 am
This cartogram is very different. It not only focuses on energy use, but also on population. The way that the landforms are distorted gives viewers a good grasp on which countries are not necessarily the most populated but the most urbanized.