We’re all familiar with maps of the Earth based on the amount of land within each country’s borders. Found a website today that offers a number of interesting visualizations of the world based on different statistical measures. For example, as the first picture shows, the US is quite a small country when it’s relative size is measured by electronics exports—but look at how things change if you base the map on electronics imported.
For each of the 92 maps on the site (many more are coming soon), you also find a downloadable PDF poster of each map (along with statistics) and Excel data files to boot. All sorts of interesting measures: toys imported/exported, net immigration, net emigration, rail freight, etc.