Vermont and Wyoming are tied for the lowest populations in the US at just 600,000 residents each and reflecting the number of residents makes them so tiny, they can hardly be seen in the map.

An curved arrow pointing right. Computer science Professor Paul Barford and a team of researchers recently published the first publicly available map of the US's long-haul fiber-optic cable network.

Every exploration buff knows that made-up geography ... blank spaces, sometimes as a bit of artistic flourish and sometimes because they legitimately believed the stories. A website called Map ...