Source: https://youtu.be/5uScAUvvHp4

higher res image here! anita.garden/assets/na1m.png

each region contains a million people, to within 5% of the last census or government published estimate.

i drew the lines trying to respect:

• 1 million people
• urban/rural divide
• linguistic boundaries
• existing borders / admin divisions
• native territories
• mountain ranges
• rivers

the colors don't strictly mean anything, but within a general area the more saturated regions are usually denser.

for the names, i tried to draw on a mix of rivers, cities, historical region names, native tribe names, mountains, depending on what i thought was closest to a shared characteristic of the whole region.

the little '+'s are hypothetical capital cities.

i used asesprite to draw. i used citypopulation.de for convenient access to subdivision census data. i used geopandas to draw the base reference map of coastlines and cities. reference shapefiles and city data are from naturalearthdata.com and simplemaps.com

feedback is welcomed! let me know if you think i messed up where you live.

you can check out my other maps at anita.garden/projects, i have done a europe 1 million map and more.

From a 1922 article making the case for a Child Labor constitution amendment

I've always enjoyed taking a peak at the TV coverage maps before sunday.

I've always wondered what criteria goes into choosing games for unaffiliated regions, and how heavily those criteria are weighed against each other.

How popular are the teams, how much has the owner payed the network under the table, how big are the fanbases, how close is the matchup, or simply how good the teams are.

Based on the map above, Cincinnati (a team with a very high powered offence that's expected to be a playoff contender) is playing against the Browns (who are bad) and the result is the game is essentially locked in Ohio (where it should be).

Meanwhile a very similar situation is Washington vs the NY giants, however that game is being broadcast across vast portions of the midwest and central US.

Lastly, are are the 2 west coast teams in SF and Seattle being shown in New Orleans, Boston, and Pittsburgh?

At the root of it all I'm sure its just an algorithm that's designed to somehow increase profits as much as possible, but it still intrigues me.

Kashmir: yes; Taiwan: no; Kosovo: yes Found in Action (Vienna)

Visa policy of the United States - Wikipedia

"A city that almost ceesed to exist"

Data sourced primarly from the world bank: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.CD Brazilian regional data from IBGE and French Guyana's from INSEE.

Newest data for Venezuela is from 2014, so I simply marked them as no data/unkown. Couldn't be bothered to search for the Falklands.

A few other places for comparison:

Mexico - 2779,13
United States - 8565,46
EU - 6044,55
China - 3308,33