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The map is hilarious

But also: please don't populate the browser history if you change pages on bar charts.

Off-topic but what is this map projection? Last time I checked, the west half of the USA's northern border is flat, but here it looks like the USA is inflating like a balloon.

Natural Earth II

Thanks but it doesn't look like a match.

I downloaded an image from here: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-raster-data/1...

And overlaid it like this: https://imgur.com/a/ERuWMoP

I lined up South America as best I could, but North America and especially Alaska are way off to the side.

Robinson, sans Greenland.

Yeah, the refresh issue on bar charts is a technical limitation of Flourish (otherwise amazing data viz tool). I’m in contact with their support to find a fix

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