This is a tilegram of Russian regions with area being distorted according to 2015 population. I relied on Gastner and Newman, 2004 distortion algorithm. Each hexagon is approximately equal to 25,000 people. Hover over the regions to see their names and population counts (in Russian).
# (c) Dmitriy Skougarevskiy, November 2016
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# Use of this source code is governed by the MIT license
# located at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
# Load dependencies
packages <- c("maptools", "raster", "sp", "rgeos", "devtools")