Gridded Cartograms

This visualisation of the global tree cover shows the quantitative distribution of the world’s forests. In a ‘gridded cartogram’, each of the grid cells shown covers an equal physical space and is then resized according to the total amount of space covered by trees in this area. 

Click each of the links below to read Benjamin Hennig's articles based around cartograms and gridded cartograms in Geographical.

• Earth at night
• Gender inequality
• People and the sea
• The wild spaces
• World religions
• Ebola deaths
• Human worlds
• Species at risk
• Water worlds
• Dimensions of poverty
• Ecological footprints
• Meat eaters
• Storm spaces
• Wet lands

Benjamin Hennig, Geographical, 2015. Read the full article.