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cartograms  

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  • Cartograms are maps in which symbol sizes represent some measured quantity. Maps that use areapreserving projections can be considered cartograms; however, the term usually refers to a combination of statistical map and graph distorted to represent social phenomena. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Cartograms]

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