A new world atlas which concentrates on population rather than land mass has been published, says report.
Researchers from the University of Sheffield created the online atlas of 200 maps that have been redrawn to show, at a glance, which cities are the largest, how all urban areas compare, and whether many or few people live in the countryside.
The images, which were created as part of a Leverhulme Trust project to remap the world and extend the Worldmapper project, have been created using population distribution data so viewers can understand how many people make up each nation.
The new world guides break with the 500-year tradition of conventional cartography which shows compass directions as straight lines.
Benjamin Hennig, a postgraduate researcher at the University's Department of Geography, was part of the team that created the maps by using the gridded population of the world database of the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project.
Mr Hennig said the new projections give an "interesting insight into different countries".
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