World population 1500, and other maps

Here is a population-weighted map of the world, circa 1500:

World1500

Here is the projected world population map, circa 2050:

World2050

Here are other neat maps.  Here are maps of tourism, emigration, and refugees.  Here is my favorite, a map of the flow of net immigration.  Or try this map of aircraft departures, watch Africa disappear.  Here is the strange geography of fruit exports.  Here is how to make South America look really big, or reallly small (can you guess?).

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