Population density maps are always good fun. And this one showing US states is no exception. As picked up on Reddit (the original is on Wikipedia), this map shows what each state would look like ...

Click the button at the bottom of the interactive to select Los Angeles County, for instance, and then click anywhere on the map to generate a (roughly) circular region of (roughly) equal population.

A few years ago, Center City Philadelphia rose to the rank of the second most populous downtown district in the United States, predictably landing behind Midtown Manhattan. From 2000 to 2015 ...

Traditional population density maps are coloured but flat, ... making up 15 per cent of the US population. Clear visible clusters also exist in Florida, Illinois, Georgia and Texas.

This is just one example of how Nelson’s map challenges our ideas of what density looks like. “Even among cells with similar population and density, the built environment can look strikingly ...