cartogramn.
/ˈkɑːtəʊɡram/ (See quot. 1965.)
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pictograph1937
1890 Rep. Insane, Feeble-Minded, &c. (11th Census U.S.) 9 Cartogram 1 indicates by depths of shading the ratios of the insane to each 100,000 of the population in the different states.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cartogram, a map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map.
1934 E. Raisz in Geogr. Rev. XXIV. 292 The statistical cartogram is not a map. Although it has roughly the proportions of the country..the cartogram is purely a geometrical design to visualize certain statistical facts and to work out certain problems of distribution.
1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 89 349 A cartogram is arithmetically accurate but topographically untrue.
1938 E. Raisz Gen. Cartogr. xxiii. 257 How ‘diagrammatic’ a map must be in order to be called a cartogram depends largely on individual judgment.
1965 F. J. Monkhouse Dict. Geogr. 55/2 Cartogram, a map on which statistical information is presented in diagrammatic form.
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