In The Telegraph: images from the new book The Atlas of the Real World.
The Atlas of the Real World uses software to depict the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range of subjects. The size of each territory represents exactly its land area in proportion to that of the others, giving a strikingly different perspective from the Mercator projection most commonly used.
I chose two that shine a different light on France:
Nuclear weapons. As of 2002, eight countries are known or suspected to have strategic nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, Israel, India and Pakistan.
Net incoming tourism. The size of each territory indicates the number of tourist trips made to that territory minus the number made from that territory to elsewhere.
