Flow Maps

Flow maps are used to represent the movement (flow) of anything from people to goods to diseases between areas. This map imparticular utilizes red line thickness to represent the amount of telecommunication flow between countries. Notice this map also utilizes proportional circles to represent the country's outgoing telecommunication traffic compared to the rest of the areas on the map. This map is also planimetric and thematic.

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