The armchair cartographer, who posts under the name TeaDranks, used 1998's favorite graphics program to make this fascinating map, one where each square that he used represents 500,000 people.

Our maps are all WRONG: Graphic shows just how out of touch the commonly used Mercator map really is. A scientist has created a representation of what the world really looks like ...

Herbert Bayer's World Geo-Graphic Atlas and Information Design at Mid-Century, written by Benjamin Benus, and published by RIT Press, recounts the design and production of the atlas between 1947 and ...

You don’t need complicated software to make a fascinating map of the world. Reddit user TeaDranks created this using none other than Microsoft Paint. It depicts countries according to their ...

But its new visualization of world population density called "Dencity," Fathom turns this ... This reversed graphic language makes Fathom’s map visually rich–the information-carrying graphic ...

The map below (updated November 2011) presents key indicators for each member of the Arab League. Browse The Economist's coverage of unrest in the Middle East with our interactive graphics carousel .