“The world divided into 5 regions, each with the population of China.”

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

This map from Amazing Maps (a great follow on Twitter) is a clever way to divide the world into 5 equal population regions.  In many world regional courses, discussion of Asia might be 1/4 of the course content, while the “NATO and the Americas region” might be about half of the class.  Also, think about “the World News” that you see on TV: how much coverage do each of these 5 regions receive?  Why is our news coverage unevenly distributed?

This map would go together nicely with this one to show the demographic important of South and East Asia.  


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