Here's a terrific view of the world ....  Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. [link via Simon Roberts at Ideas Bazaar]. It's really interesting to see visually how much of the population space China and India occupy ... and to see where the children of the world are. 

Here's one with Land area territories:


Compare this with the territory occupied by children of the world and see how India, China and parts of North Africa bloat up:


Also interesting to me was this map - which shows the population of the world 2000 years ago:


India and China's proportion of population in the world seems to have shrunk since! :

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"One thing remains constant about our humanity - that we must never stop trying to tell stories of who we think we are. Equally, we must never stop wanting to listen to each other's stories. If we ever stopped, it would all be over. Everything we are as human beings, would be reduced to a lost book floating in the universe, with no one to remember us, no one to know we once existed" - Ruth Behar in an article called Ethnography and the Book That Was Lost

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