Can we please change the reference dataset for administrative boundaries to this one (if possible)?

I had spent half a day creating a dictionary of name of municipalities in GeoJSON to dataset. https://observablehq.com/@adb/nepal-cbs-2011-census-household-facilities#alternateMunicipalityNames. There were some spelling and name changes. Is the change only to show the correct shape of Byas Municipality, https://d.pr/i/rrTbd8 ? If it is that, I can add that single municipality to the currently used GeoJSON.

I tried using local_unit.geojson. Have to spend some time to update the names map.

Thank you. And no - the request is because I am trying to use official government data, where possible.

Fixed shape of Byas municipality.

In another note, the `local_unit.geojson` is 40 MB. Even if we were to use it, we need to simplify the shapes a bit to reduce the size.

We can mutate it. Before having seen your work, I similarly had sunk a few hours into trying to re-locate that 'local_unit' data, then researching sites that would provide me other official lists of administrative areas (i.e. direct from gov; trying to avoid wikipedia and third parties). I didn't get too far; seems these information are generally absent and that which did exist are slowly disappearing. My intention was to somewhat document this... preserving original sources, then building it out ourselves.

Please just try, if possible, to also keep the simplification occurring within the notebook. I should have similarly stepped through the transformation of shapefiles into geojson.

Great viz! Perhaps you should mention that this kind of cartogram is called a "Dorling" cartogram. There are a few examples of it right here on Observable, such as https://observablehq.com/@harrystevens/dorling-cartogram

Thank you Claudio for the suggestion. Updated.