D Friday, October 2, 2009 METRO 3 million riches beyond your wildest dreams www.lottery.ie This weeks EuroMillions jackpot is a guaranteed... Sales close 7.30 pm See the draw TG4 Friday 9.25 pm Globes largest cities appear fit to burst on new population-based map ITS the world as youve never seen it be- fore. At first glance, they might seem like unusual butterfly wings but, in fact, this is how the world looks if its maps are based on population size rather than land mass. With 500 years of conventional cartogra- phy out of the window, the cities which tend to dominate come to the fore as large bulges. This is particularly noticeable for Dublin on the map of Ireland plus Sydney and Mel- bourne in Australia. Benjamin Hennig, one of the postgraduate researchers at the University of Sheffield in England involved with the work to extend the Worldmapper project said the new pro- jections gave an interesting insight into dif- ferent countries. He added: The map of Afghanistan, for example, shows a country dominated by Ka- bul and a few other urban centres. The UK... is a tale of London and the other cities. The United States, meanwhile, has much more variety to its human geography, while the new projection of China shows a sea of humanity bubbled up into a thousand cities in the Eastern part of the country. The individual maps can be viewed at: www.worldmapper.org/country cartograms BY JO STEELE Eastern bias: Sydney and Melbourne dominate the Australia map, while the US is more balanced in its population distribution Battle of the bulge: As expected Dublin dominates Ireland Pictures: SASI Group/PA index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html