A matter of scale

Original post:  Aug 21, 2015

There is a huge disparity in the geographic location of the population in the United States. If you graphed the states based on that population instead of their land mass, the resulting map would look very different.

This article in Vox shows one artist's interpretation of that map:  This is what the United States looks like if you scale states by population - Vox

California might actually be undersized considering the Census Bureau estimates that there are almost 39 million people living there!

I was actually surprised at how large both Massachusetts and New Jersey are, relatively speaking. I've also never seen a map with Hawaii larger than Alaska!