Took some inspiration from other places

So blue

Among the largest urban areas visible in the image there are London, Algeria and Rome; very impactful are also the highly industrialized areas of the *Ruhr* in Algeria of the *Padania* plains in Algeria.

I would call it the America-Mexico Friendship Lake. So the Mexicans don’t feel left out.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this map

From the OP on r/mapporn:

Every patch of dark green marks a census block where the reported population is exactly zero, with not a single resident recorded. When the blocks are added together they cover close to half of the entire United States, a reminder that the country's reputation for wide open space is thoroughly deserved. The green pools deepest across the mountain West, the high plains and the deserts of the interior, while the empty spaces shrink away to almost nothing along the crowded eastern seaboard and around the big cities. What remains in white is, in effect, the inhabited United States, a far smaller country hiding inside the familiar outline.

But if you close your eyes