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What the World Would Look Like if Countries Were as Big as Online Populations
- sidcool 13y agoWow, Canada is really tiny inspite of being huge geographically. And I don't see Africa at all. Powerful visualization.
- iliaznk 13y agoYeah, Canada is only 34 mln population! I was really shocked when I learnt that recently.
- tadfisher 13y agoFun fact: over 80% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.
- fredrikcarno 13y agoSweden is the same as Canada, highly connected but large unpopulated areas
- m12k 13y ago> And I don't see Africa at all That would be because Africa isn't a country. Look in the bottom center of the visualization: MAR, NGA, EGY, ZAF and a number of smaller countries between them - that's Africa.
- rgbrenner 13y agowhy is alaska so large? The entire state population is only 780k.. so even if it were 100%, it should only be about two dots Edit: also it says this data was published by the world bank in 2011
- seszett 13y agoData isn't shown for every subunit of every country, the whole US have been sized according to their internet population, not each state. What I find missing is mostly Taiwan, which should be the size and colour of Australia between Philippines and Korea on this map.
- gpjt 13y agoPerhaps they bundled it in with China? A political minefield there, of course...
- seszett 13y agoSure, that might be why they avoided it. Since I still think it's an interesting to have it for comparison, I added it along with Hong Kong, taking my data from Wikipedia (respectively 17 and 5 million users, and 76% and 72% penetration): http://ssz.fr/brdl/internet-pop-hk-tw.png http://ssz.fr/brdl/internet-pop-hk-tw.png (I'm no graphic artist and just fiddled a bit with Gimp to get something that looks acceptable - obviously the whole map would need to be redrawn to better take geography into account). The two places do make up a sizable part of Internet population in east Asia, and make it look less like a region with only two isolated developped countries.
- ddeck 13y agoYes. The data source for the map is the World Bank. The World Bank does not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation and refers to them as Chinese Taipei, as does the IMF.
- bane 13y agoAlaska isn't a country.
- fabrika 13y agoSouth America is basically the same.
- linux_devil 13y agoIn India there is huge potential , with mobile penetration increasing exponentially, its a big market waiting.
- leviathan 13y agoSo Antarctica has the biggest online population? http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/population.png http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/population.png
- mrtksn 13y agoyou should read about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_cylindrical_projection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_cylindrical_projection
- smanuel 13y agoJapan is big.
- grimtrigger 13y agoWhenever I see warped maps like this, I intuitively compare it to the standard map. Which, if you think about it, is a ridiculous comparison since one is based on population and the other is based on land mass.