This map represents the exporting of groceries. Groceries include sugar, honey, cocoa, chocolate, tea, mate (a tea-like drink) and spices. Territories in South America and Asia Pacific together make up three quarters of net grocery exports, as you can notice from the cartogram. Net exports at regional level seem to be from South America, Asia Pacific, North America, Southeastern Africa and Northern Africa. The majority of both Asia and Europe are not visible on this map. The imports to these places exceed the exports.
Mauritius (an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 560 mi east of Madagascar), exports (net) the nineteenth highest value of groceries. It makes most money per person from this trade.
This map represents globalization because of the correlation between the type of land, and the reality of what it is exporting and where it is exporting it to. The majority of Asia and Europe appear to not be driven by grocery exportation; that is obvious from the map. Instead it is Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific that share the net of grocery exports.
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