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Data 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 i
by seszett 13y ago
Data 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.