Thursday, January 20, 2011

How Big is that Country?

This site lets you pick a country and compare a number of its quality-of-life stats to the US. But I think the most interesting part is the map that overlays the country on top of your geographic area. Given that I feel like I understand the state of California as a good scale, it's really interesting to see how the area of other countries compares.

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/

Given how bad kids seem to be at geography, this might not be as interesting or surprising to them, but it raises questions about map scaling that at least I think are worth asking.

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