Population density maps are always good fun. And this one showing US states is no exception. As picked up on Reddit (the original is on Wikipedia), this map shows what each state would look like ...

Earlier this week, I split up the United States into 50 regions of equal population.In that story, I pointed out that the population of Manhattan is greater than that of North Dakota and South ...

Traditional population density maps are coloured but flat, ... making up 15 per cent of the US population. Clear visible clusters also exist in Florida, Illinois, Georgia and Texas.

A few years ago, Center City Philadelphia rose to the rank of the second most populous downtown district in the United States, predictably landing behind Midtown Manhattan. From 2000 to 2015 ...

This is just one example of how Nelson’s map challenges our ideas of what density looks like. “Even among cells with similar population and density, the built environment can look strikingly ...