Working With Cartograms

Cartograms are a strange type of graph Cartograms are a strange type of graph. Like all graphs, they show data in ways that help us visually understand the data.

In other words, cartograms make it easy to get information just by looking at them – instead of having to read all of the statistics.

Cartograms showing the same information may look slightly different. Both of these compare populations. They are a bit different, but both are correct.

Which African countries have the largest populations? Remember: Cartograms can look slightly different and still both be accurate. They are not actual maps. They represent comparative data.

How are these cartograms of Europe’s population different? How are they the same?

SO: Cartograms show how different countries compare to each other on one subject (for example: population, GDP, oil exports, electricity production, number of cars, etc.).

clothing exports

clothing imports

tourist visits

railroad passengers

motorcycles & mopeds

toy imports

toy exports