Utah is one of many western states that have a large percentage and large acreage of federally owned and administered lands. Cartograms employ a strategy of distorting the geography of features so they are sized in proportion to a particular data attribute.

The purpose of cartograms is to communicate the nature of the data strictly through visualization. This image was created using the ESRI Cartogram Geoprocessing tool for ArcMap, a free download for ArcMap 9.3 users.