cartogram

cartogram
/kahr"teuh gram'/, n.
a diagrammatic presentation in highly abstracted or simplified form, commonly of statistical data, on a map base or distorted map base.
[1885-90; < F cartogramme. See CARTE, -O-, -GRAM1]

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