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cartogram: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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Cartography

a map in which the sizes of regions are distorted to be proportional to a variable such as population.

In cartography, cartogram refers to a map in which the sizes of regions are distorted to be proportional to a variable such as population. This meaning comes from Tobler (2004) in Annals of the Association of American Geographers.[1]

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association4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs population4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs variable4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Tobler, W. (2004). Thirty Five Years of Computer Cartograms. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(1), 58-73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09401004.x

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