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Fun fact I recently learned: about 90% of world population is in the Northern Hemisphere. I expected it to be lop sided, but not that much. http://bigthink.com
by kevin_morrill 10y ago
Fun fact I recently learned: about 90% of world population is in the Northern Hemisphere. I expected it to be lop sided, but not that much.
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/563-pop-by-lat-and-pop-by-long http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/563-pop-by-lat-and-pop-by-l...
- jcranmer 10y agoNot surprising. The equator runs under the bulk of Africa, through the middle of Brazil and Indonesia. The Southern Hemisphere ends up containing about 80% water, about half the landmass of the Northern Hemisphere. And about half of the Southern Hemisphere's landmass is uninhabitable Australian or Antarctic desert. The more impressive fact is that half of the world's population lives in a small-ish circle in Asia: http://io9.gizmodo.com/more-than-half-of-the-worlds-population-lives-inside-t-493103044 http://io9.gizmodo.com/more-than-half-of-the-worlds-populati...