Guess the Lights

guess where people live. then turn off the sun.

four countries at dusk, four gestures: trace the Nile, paint Australia, draw the Korean border, split China in one swipe, then night falls and the real city lights switch on over your guess

Night lights are a map of people. Trace where you think the Nile runs, paint where you think Australians live, draw where North Korea ends, split China in one swipe, and then night falls and NASA's satellite lights switch on over your guess. Almost all of Egypt lives on one river, most of Australia on one coast, North Korea is nearly dark, and a line drawn across China in 1935 still splits its people about 94 to 6.

Concepts: maps, population, statistics, scale.

An interactive you play with one thumb, on Wundr.