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      I like how you can just about make out the shape of Australia’s east and south coastlines.

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        I’m not good at geography, but I’m going to pretend that that’s New Zealand and this is revenge for all the times NZ was left off the map.

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          But you actually can make out New Zealand!('s North Island.) Auckland is easy to see, and I can just make out Wellington from the preview version. When I look at the full-resolution there are enough dots scattered around to make out the full North Island, plus a couple of the bigger towns on the South Island.

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        But not Canada at all. I figured it would be Australia that would be completely invisible, but nope, Canada.

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          Not being an island, and having about 90% of the population within 100 km of the US border, really doesn’t do Canada any favours in this illustration.

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          Nothing that exciting. I just live in a very small community, quite a distance from any larger community, and I’m pretty sure that at the scale of that map - my community doesn’t exist. If I zoom in enough, maybe there’s something there, but I think it’s digital compression artefacts.

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      Imagine what if it would be an Olympic sport? They’d probably take the gold if my ex wouldn’t be competing.

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    I had no idea Port-au-Prince was so dense. It’s the ninth most densely populated city in the world and top in the Western Hemisphere.

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      I get your joke but isn’t it there? Or is this part of Austria? It’s hard to tell but I think New Zealand is there

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          Yet it is there. Only continent totally thrown of the edge is Antarctica. I wonder why… just asking questions, not implying any agenda

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            I don’t think penguins are included in the population count, otherwise NZ would have another 500k population.

            I’m pretty sure there’s a Big Antarctica conspiracy to keep penguins off the map, hiding their army of 44m penguins.

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    This map looks good, but feels somewhat misleading. For me, it looks like India is home to about half of the world’s population.

    Still, very beautiful presentation.

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      India has 17% of the world’s population - on a scale like this image, that’s not far off “about half”! It looks right to me.

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      Western China too. I flew over it and it’s like an endless mountainous wasteland.

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    Holy shit i had no idea Ethiopia was so crowded. it’s cool how you can see population swells around the Nile and Lake Victoria too. and the Mediterranean coast of course. and I guess Nigeria is just a good place to live??

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    Huh, I can read Canada. I call bullshit on the 2x2 thing, though. This is more like 10x10, otherwise you’d see a lot of smaller communities.

    It’s mostly not surprising, but laid out like that I wonder how long places out of the historical spotlight have been that populous. Ethiopia is quasi-historical enough we can be pretty sure it’s long been a center, but the African Great Lakes? Who knows.

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    Let’s take a moment to appreciate that almost every one of those billions of people was someone doing the dirty and the rest were turkey-bastered in :3