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"China shows a sea of humanity bubbled up into a thousand cities in the Eastern part of the country," says Mr Hennig

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Australia has one major city on the western side of the country and then virtually nothing until several huge cities in the east

Brazil has some huge cities on its eastern seaboard, with smaller communities along the Amazon tributaries

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Benjamin Hennig, a postgraduate researcher at the University's Department of Geography, was part of the team that created the maps using the gridded population of the world database of the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project. Mr Hennig said the new projections give an "interesting insight into different countries"

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The maps can be viewed at www.worldmapper.org/countrycartograms

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Armistice Day

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Armistice Day Celebrations in Toronto, Canada - 1918

Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) is on November 11 and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Rethondes, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month". While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the cease fire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.

The date was declared a national holiday in many allied nations, to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war. An exception is Italy, where the end of the war is commemorated on 4 November, the day of the Armistice of Villa Giusti. Called Armistice Day in many countries, it was known as National Day in Poland (also a public holiday) called Polish Independence Day. After World War II, the name of the holiday was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Armistice Day remains an official holiday in France. It is also an official holiday in Belgium, known also as the Day of Peace in the Flanders Fields.

In many parts of the world people take a two-minute moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. as a sign of respect for the roughly 20 million people who died in the war, as suggested by Edward George Honey in a letter to a British newspaper although Wellesley Tudor Pole established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917.^[1][2]

In the UK, beginning in 1939, the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday nearest 11 November in order not to interfere with wartime production should 11 November fall on a weekday. Since the 1990s a growing number of people have observed a two-minute silence on 11 November,^{[citation needed]} resulting in both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday being commemorated formally in the UK.

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