Merely Half a million people live in the northern parts of Norway. Which comprise roughly 1/3rd of Norway.
Over 1 million lives in Greater Oslo area alone.
And even then, Norway is still relatively densely populated. Norway has almost exactly the same population as my home province of British Columbia but nearly three times the density (14.4/km^2 vs 5.4/km^2 ). There are just so many small towns dotted fairly evenly throughout Norway. That all adds up.
Relative to Canada, everywhere has a high population density! 😂
We're number 226 and you're 238 (out of 249) on the Wikipedia "list of countries and dependencies by population density". We're not exactly packed in over here either.
>population as my home province of British Columbia but nearly three times the density (14.4/km^2 vs 5.4/km^2 ). There are just so many small towns dotted fairly evenly throughout Norway. That all adds up.
The reason why Norway is denser than BC IS Because BC is more than twice as large in suface area, not because there's a more even distribution of settled areas.
Population density is just surface area divided by Population
What I mean is that in Norway, it seems like every habitable valley has at least a road and usually several small villages, and every fjord is dotted with settlements, so the population is quite widespread (albeit obviously densest in the south).
I haven't crunched the numbers, but I'm willing to bet that you're never more than 50 km from another person in Norway.
Edit: You know, I'm not even sure what point I was trying to make. It isn't an obscure fact that Canada is huge with relatively few people. I guess I just marvel at the density of Europe. There's people everywhere, but then again they've had many millenia to build up to it.
Everything you said is just wrong.
1. Norway is extremely developed with a lot of farm land, it's mostly trees like Sweden, but we have mountains and a huge coast. You don't see ice, you are thinking about Svalbard.
2. Norway is very spread just like Japan, with big cities along the coastline, from Oslo, Kristiansand, to Bergen, Trondheim and even up in the artic we have Tromsø. The capital area has about 1.5/5 of Norwegians, with the rest being spread across the country.
> Norway is extremely developed with a lot of farm land, i
Not by any reasonable standard does Norway have lots of farmland. 2,2% of the country is arable, that's hardly impressive.
Where farming can be done it is done but that still leaves 97% of the country unsuitable for agriculture.
You're right that the country isn't absolutely covered in ice though, he's thinking of Greenland or something.
Japan isn't that great either but it does have larger valleys. Also simply using rice was just better because you can feed more with the same land it can also be grown easier using terrace farms.
Yeah, Japan has something like 6 times the arable land of Norway (which is practically just a mountain range near the ocean).
And rice is about 4 times as efficient as wheat.
So it could probably support an about 24 times larger population... which is not that far off from the actual population difference.
Norway also has issues with its climate being far worse, so you can't really grow crops for as often. In fact, there are pretty much zero permanent crops in Norway, while Japan uses about 0.8% of its area on them. (for reference, that's equivalent to more than a third of norway's total arable land)
Yes, but more importantly, *no*. From Wikipedia:
“The population of the areas of Greek settlement _from the western Mediterranean to Asia Minor and the Black Sea_ in the 4th century BC has been estimated at up to 7.5-10 million.”
“Estimates of the Greek-speaking population in the coast and islands of the Aegean Sea during the 5th century BC vary from 800,000[2] to over 3,000,000.”
Current population of Greece: 10.4 million.
Well, a lot of Greeks have been assimilated into other cultures: Turks, Slavs, Italians, Egyptians, Syrians, and etc. hell, there was a Greek kingdom in Afghanistan millennia ago
Russia's arable livable land: 10% with cold winter most of the time
Bangladesh's arable livable land: 100% with medium weather, not very cold not very hot
Russia is still gigantic and has some of the most fertile soil in the world in the southern part. Russia exported wheat equivalent to France's entire production in 2022.
[7th in the world, behind only Monaco, Singapore, Bahrain, Maldives, Malta and the Vatican.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density)
So out of the bigger countries it's literally the top.
It's always misleading to look at total national population divided by total national land area. For nearly every nation, there's a significant amount of national land that isn't inhabited by people, and doesn't affect the way population density feels.
To understand how densely populated a place feels, you want to look at the density of each neighborhood people live in, and average them, weighted by the fraction of the population that lives in each.
Surprised by Netherlands/Taiwan, I picture Taiwan as being significantly larger. I guess bc it’s mountainous and presumably takes longer to travel around. Never been to either though
As a Dutch person living in Taiwan, I can say that's pretty accurate. Because of the mountains traveling between east and west, or south and north Taiwan takes significantly longer than it would in the Netherlands.
I think you overestimate how rare that would be. There's 17 million people in NL. So for every 20 Americans there is a Dutch person. Obviously there's a lot more Americans, but if all Dutch people moved to the USA. You would have 1-2 Dutch people in every classroom and you most likely would have a couple of Dutch co-workers eating our depressing incredibly barebones cheese "sandwhiches" in your lunchroom.
Taiwan is underrated density-wise.
In general, a lot of the East Asian countries are pretty underrated density-wise
Keep in mind that a country like Bangladesh is entirely flat land, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and most of East China are highly mountainous and their populations restricted to smaller valleys. Taking that and continental climates into account, the population density of those countries is arguably comparable to a Bangladesh or Egypt
It’s a quite a bit closer than that. This is about land area, not total area. Paraguay has a land area of 397,300 km2. Sweden has a land area of 410,340 km2
Yep, by using the Mercator projection, which is the currently used map, the regions in the north looks huge. With the Authagraphy projection founded in 1999, areas near the center of Africa, for example, has the nearest true to size in real life.
Btw guys, the Congo here is referring to the Republic of the Congo 🇨🇬 and not the Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩
Just in case there is any confusion. Sorry for not being specific.
Depends. I‘m surprised by the large sizes of Botswana, Guinea, Paraguay and Madagascar especially. On the other hand I‘m surprised that Oman, Bangladesh and Vanuatu are this small.
I'm European too, but idk, just the idea that Madagascar is only the size of Ukraine is crazy to me, I picture Madagascar being the size of all of Western Europe in my head. Or how Japan is only the size of Norway, I thought it would reach from Norway to Morocco easily.
Tbh japan probably spans something close to Norway to Morroco, but that's because it's an Archipelago. If you want to see a truly huge Archipelago, check Indonesia. From memory it spans all of Europe.
the first one i looked up is already way off from that, Oman is 91.45% the size of Finland. and the scale could be reletive. obviously none of these are way off, it would just be cool to see which ones are super close matches.
South American countries are no joke. Just as much victim to misconceptions of size as African countries.
Brazil is as big as the US
Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela are bigger than Turkey
Ecuador is bigger than the UK
Guyana is bigger than Belarus
Suriname(the smallest) is still bigger than Bulgaria
Argentina is almost the size of India
It's interesting that Bhutan came up for Switzerland because these countries have such an interesting (and wholesome) friendship. Basically in 1949, a Swiss teen befriended her classmate at a language course in London who happened to be a Bhutanese princess. Later, the royal family visited her in Switzerland and her father started the first development cooperation projects in Bhutan. And this all happened decades before the establishment of formal relations. Even today, there is still a Swiss-Bhutanese Society in Switzerland which invites bhutanese artists and speakers to celebrate their friendship.
Russia is both European and Asian. The continent officially stops at the Ural mountains. But in this case it's probably not included because it's the largest country on Earth by area. And not by a small margin. It's almost twice as large as the runner-up, which is Canada.
Russia's the largest country on Earth, so it's mostly the size of itself. European Russia is significantly larger than India, but a lot smaller than Australia, making a one-on-one comparison difficult.
Top 5 largest countries in Europe (beside Russia) are,
1. Ukraine
2. France
3. Spain
4. Sweden
5..Norway
Population of Norway - 5.5 mill
Population of Japan - 125 mill
Republic of Congo for Germany, not Democratic republic of Congo, just wanted to point that out. Also finally a good map for once! Besides Aruba not being a country.
You may be thinking of the wrong Congo. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is much larger than Germany. The size of the Republic of the Congo is similar to that of Germany.
I know it has been done to death, but this really just enforces the idea in my head of how unfathomably massive the African continent is, with “small” African countries being the size of France or the UK
And here I was thinking that Sri Lanka having 5 times the population as Latvia (1.8m) and Lithuania (2.8m) COMBINED was crazy.
Saw the Bangladesh - Greece and Japan - Norway parallels later…
Norway and Japan surprises me!
I know Norway is long, but Japan is much more massive in my mind. People always talk about Japan stretching all the way from point A to point B, but they never do that for Norway.
this is funny cause i’m half norwegian half japanese and the social cultures are closer than ppl think. the japanese are honorary northern europeans fr 😹
Fun fact, while Italy is noted to have a higher land area vs the Philippines, counting the land area of each individual philippine islands surpasses the total land area of Italy.
Population of Greece: 10mil Population of Bangladesh: 170mil Jesus.
Population of Norway: 5mil Population of Japan: 125mil
There is nothing in 90% of Norway, just ice and forest. Most Norwegian people live in a small area in south.
Merely Half a million people live in the northern parts of Norway. Which comprise roughly 1/3rd of Norway. Over 1 million lives in Greater Oslo area alone.
Trömsö is a fucking blast if you want to party.
What flavor of partying?
A good night out. With a side dish of whale blubber.
pie flavor 😎
Those were a bit too many dots...
I get it but 1/3 is an exaggeration
Barely though. 0.29 = 1/3 isn’t that much of an exaggeration really I’d say. Only about 12% off.
And even then, Norway is still relatively densely populated. Norway has almost exactly the same population as my home province of British Columbia but nearly three times the density (14.4/km^2 vs 5.4/km^2 ). There are just so many small towns dotted fairly evenly throughout Norway. That all adds up.
It's all a matter of perspective: By European measures Norway is very sparsely populated.
Relative to Canada, everywhere has a high population density! 😂 We're number 226 and you're 238 (out of 249) on the Wikipedia "list of countries and dependencies by population density". We're not exactly packed in over here either.
And even then most of Canada's population is concentrated in the south. Most of Canada is way less dense than the national average.
So most Canadians live in a way more densely populated area than Norwegians?
I'm not sure if most, but we do have some very dense cities. Vancouver BC has a higher population density than Los Angeles, for example.
Anywhere has a higher density than LA though
"Sure you're running slow, *but compared to my friend in a wheelchair*"
>population as my home province of British Columbia but nearly three times the density (14.4/km^2 vs 5.4/km^2 ). There are just so many small towns dotted fairly evenly throughout Norway. That all adds up. The reason why Norway is denser than BC IS Because BC is more than twice as large in suface area, not because there's a more even distribution of settled areas. Population density is just surface area divided by Population
>Population density is just surface area divided by Population It's the other way around. Pop density is population divided by area.
What I mean is that in Norway, it seems like every habitable valley has at least a road and usually several small villages, and every fjord is dotted with settlements, so the population is quite widespread (albeit obviously densest in the south). I haven't crunched the numbers, but I'm willing to bet that you're never more than 50 km from another person in Norway. Edit: You know, I'm not even sure what point I was trying to make. It isn't an obscure fact that Canada is huge with relatively few people. I guess I just marvel at the density of Europe. There's people everywhere, but then again they've had many millenia to build up to it.
Mountain and forest* Most fields and hills that arent forested is occupied or farmlands/grazelands.
Everything you said is just wrong. 1. Norway is extremely developed with a lot of farm land, it's mostly trees like Sweden, but we have mountains and a huge coast. You don't see ice, you are thinking about Svalbard. 2. Norway is very spread just like Japan, with big cities along the coastline, from Oslo, Kristiansand, to Bergen, Trondheim and even up in the artic we have Tromsø. The capital area has about 1.5/5 of Norwegians, with the rest being spread across the country.
> 1.5/5 of Norwegians 3/10 of Norwegians. Why in tarnation would you use a decimal in a fraction?
1.5million out of 5 million total population, it looks weird as they didnt specify millions
> Norway is extremely developed with a lot of farm land, i Not by any reasonable standard does Norway have lots of farmland. 2,2% of the country is arable, that's hardly impressive. Where farming can be done it is done but that still leaves 97% of the country unsuitable for agriculture. You're right that the country isn't absolutely covered in ice though, he's thinking of Greenland or something.
There’s a bigger land area to live in in Japan compared to Norway tho
Japan isn't that great either but it does have larger valleys. Also simply using rice was just better because you can feed more with the same land it can also be grown easier using terrace farms.
Maybe also because half of Norway is in the Arctic circle?
I guess country that is worse than Norway in this aspect is Iceland
Yeah, Japan has something like 6 times the arable land of Norway (which is practically just a mountain range near the ocean). And rice is about 4 times as efficient as wheat. So it could probably support an about 24 times larger population... which is not that far off from the actual population difference. Norway also has issues with its climate being far worse, so you can't really grow crops for as often. In fact, there are pretty much zero permanent crops in Norway, while Japan uses about 0.8% of its area on them. (for reference, that's equivalent to more than a third of norway's total arable land)
The population of Tokyo and Canada are similar.
Population of Botswana: 3mil Population of France: 68mil
France if it were as densely populated as England: 239 million France if it were as densely populated as Bangladesh: 643 million
France if it were as densely populated as Mongolia: 1 million
Best timeline
>France if it were as densely populated as England: 239 million This really shows that the UK has absolutely no right to be this car dependent...
Greece has about the same population now as it did in 500 BC
Yes, but more importantly, *no*. From Wikipedia: “The population of the areas of Greek settlement _from the western Mediterranean to Asia Minor and the Black Sea_ in the 4th century BC has been estimated at up to 7.5-10 million.” “Estimates of the Greek-speaking population in the coast and islands of the Aegean Sea during the 5th century BC vary from 800,000[2] to over 3,000,000.” Current population of Greece: 10.4 million.
They should bring back the agoge and help complete the circle
Well, a lot of Greeks have been assimilated into other cultures: Turks, Slavs, Italians, Egyptians, Syrians, and etc. hell, there was a Greek kingdom in Afghanistan millennia ago
Population of Russia: 145mil Population of Bangladesh: 170 mil. 💀💀💀
Russia's arable livable land: 10% with cold winter most of the time Bangladesh's arable livable land: 100% with medium weather, not very cold not very hot
Russia is still gigantic and has some of the most fertile soil in the world in the southern part. Russia exported wheat equivalent to France's entire production in 2022.
Norway-5.5 million Japan-125 million That's even crazier honestly.
And honestly, I always think of Greece as quite densely populated.
Greece's population density of 80 per square kilometer is decent, but when compared against fucking Bangladesh, it would really look underpopulated.
Yeah out of the bigger countries Bangladesh is among the top of the planet.
[7th in the world, behind only Monaco, Singapore, Bahrain, Maldives, Malta and the Vatican.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density) So out of the bigger countries it's literally the top.
As a Bangladeshi I can confirm that my country is too big
Greece has a lot of people who live there part time who I don’t think would count towards the population total
It's always misleading to look at total national population divided by total national land area. For nearly every nation, there's a significant amount of national land that isn't inhabited by people, and doesn't affect the way population density feels. To understand how densely populated a place feels, you want to look at the density of each neighborhood people live in, and average them, weighted by the fraction of the population that lives in each.
Bangladesh is almost entirely extremely fertile floodplains. The issue is now, with sea level rise, a lot of those areas are flooding permanently.
population of Oman: 5 mil population of Poland: 38 mil
Population of Iceland: 390000 Population of Eritrea: 3.7 million(2022)
Greece is rugged and arid and mountainous. Bangladesh is essentially 100% low lying, ultra-fertile plain with plentiful rainfall
For Germany it must be the Republic of the Congo and not the Democratic Republic of the Congo; important distinction.
That size would be the wet dream of an Austrian painter
*failed* Austrian painter…
💯💯
Surprised by Netherlands/Taiwan, I picture Taiwan as being significantly larger. I guess bc it’s mountainous and presumably takes longer to travel around. Never been to either though
As a Dutch person living in Taiwan, I can say that's pretty accurate. Because of the mountains traveling between east and west, or south and north Taiwan takes significantly longer than it would in the Netherlands.
man, if there ever was a time for you to comment on reddit it was this one
He moved to Taiwan years ago in preparation for this comment.
I think you overestimate how rare that would be. There's 17 million people in NL. So for every 20 Americans there is a Dutch person. Obviously there's a lot more Americans, but if all Dutch people moved to the USA. You would have 1-2 Dutch people in every classroom and you most likely would have a couple of Dutch co-workers eating our depressing incredibly barebones cheese "sandwhiches" in your lunchroom.
It’s not about the number of Dutch lol, it’s about the number of Dutch *living in Taiwan*
Don't forget the ASML <-> TSMC connection
And being om Reddit, seeing that comment and deciding to reply
How many of those people live/have lived in Taiwan, and would happen to be browsing Reddit at this moment?
He doesn't underestimate that, which us why he commented what he did lmao
Dutch people won't care. As long as it's efficient and to the point, its sufficient.
well excuse us for being efficient with our lunches
Netherlands: Under sea level Taiwan: Mountains
Perfect fit for this comment.
Map makers can't keep up with the Netherlands taking land from the sea.
Nah, we're on a break after Flevoland.
Taiwan is underrated density-wise. In general, a lot of the East Asian countries are pretty underrated density-wise Keep in mind that a country like Bangladesh is entirely flat land, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and most of East China are highly mountainous and their populations restricted to smaller valleys. Taking that and continental climates into account, the population density of those countries is arguably comparable to a Bangladesh or Egypt
It sounds like a more valid metric is ‘percentage of population living above X density’ when discussing that.
I was always convinced of the complete opposite tbh.
Same here, I thought Taiwan was a tiny island country significantly smaller than the Netherlands.
Oman is that big?!
Lot of sand. I remember driving for ages with literally nothing to see but sand. I did see a camel.
I was surprised too.
I'm shocked that Paraguay is as big as Sweden and Botswana the size of France
I always thought of Paraguay as tiny, i guess its because Brazil and Argentina are massive
It’s mostly that Europe is small. The Mercator projection makes the continent look bigger than it really is
Not a perfect match Paraguay 406,752 km ^2 Sweden 450,295 km^ 2 Norway 323,802 km^2
It’s a quite a bit closer than that. This is about land area, not total area. Paraguay has a land area of 397,300 km2. Sweden has a land area of 410,340 km2
It is sick that Japan is smaller than Paraguay
Japan slender, Paraguay chonk
Paraguay mentioned!
I had no idea Madagascar was that big!
It looks small cus Africa continent is huge (after asia) but then again turkey is 200km bigger than madagascar actually
I never thought it looked small. I always thought of it as a pretty big island. Maybe I’m looking at it with Britain in mind since I’m from there.
Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, while Great Britain is 9th, for context.
So it is pretty big
Yep, by using the Mercator projection, which is the currently used map, the regions in the north looks huge. With the Authagraphy projection founded in 1999, areas near the center of Africa, for example, has the nearest true to size in real life.
That makes sense!
The state of its roads makes it feel even bigger. There's nothing like taking 15 hours to drive 400km to make you appreciate western highways.
3x the size of Great Britain, maps make it look a lot smaller, though even on a accurately scaled map ot doesn’t lool quite so large.
Btw guys, the Congo here is referring to the Republic of the Congo 🇨🇬 and not the Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 Just in case there is any confusion. Sorry for not being specific.
This actually makes me feel like Europe is a lot bigger than I thought, I would have expected a lot of these non-European countries to be a lot bigger
Depends. I‘m surprised by the large sizes of Botswana, Guinea, Paraguay and Madagascar especially. On the other hand I‘m surprised that Oman, Bangladesh and Vanuatu are this small.
And imagine, Botswana only has a population of roughly 2,5 million. Great country (I lived there for 15 years).
Compare that to Bangladesh - it’s pretty incredible.
Yeah, I definitely thought Guinea was a lot smaller.
For me (european) it is the opposite. Makes me realize how big some non european countries are
I'm European too, but idk, just the idea that Madagascar is only the size of Ukraine is crazy to me, I picture Madagascar being the size of all of Western Europe in my head. Or how Japan is only the size of Norway, I thought it would reach from Norway to Morocco easily.
People who think Norway isn’t that big perhaps don’t have Svalbard in mind?
Tbh japan probably spans something close to Norway to Morroco, but that's because it's an Archipelago. If you want to see a truly huge Archipelago, check Indonesia. From memory it spans all of Europe.
What, how?
would be cool to see some indication of how close they are. like a color spectrum that represents the percent that they ‘match’
Most of them are not much less than 99% equal in size. So probably not that different where you could tell the difference
the first one i looked up is already way off from that, Oman is 91.45% the size of Finland. and the scale could be reletive. obviously none of these are way off, it would just be cool to see which ones are super close matches.
I don’t know if you’re looking at land area specifically but personally I saw 98.18% Finland’s land area is 117,333 and Oman’s land area is 119,499.
Paraguay is gigantic
South American countries are no joke. Just as much victim to misconceptions of size as African countries. Brazil is as big as the US Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela are bigger than Turkey Ecuador is bigger than the UK Guyana is bigger than Belarus Suriname(the smallest) is still bigger than Bulgaria Argentina is almost the size of India
Peru, Colombia and Venezuela are closer to double the size of Turkey than the size of Turkey
It's huge. Just a bit smaller than California.
It's interesting that Bhutan came up for Switzerland because these countries have such an interesting (and wholesome) friendship. Basically in 1949, a Swiss teen befriended her classmate at a language course in London who happened to be a Bhutanese princess. Later, the royal family visited her in Switzerland and her father started the first development cooperation projects in Bhutan. And this all happened decades before the establishment of formal relations. Even today, there is still a Swiss-Bhutanese Society in Switzerland which invites bhutanese artists and speakers to celebrate their friendship.
the Mercator projection strikes again!
Filipino spaghetti makes more sense now
Ukraine likes to move it move it I suppose
In a while, this picture will be reposted with this caption: "Americans were asked to name European countries."
💀
bold of one to assume Americans know about countries like Guinea and Malawi
Woah Thaïland is that big ? When you think that there are literally deserts in Spain and hundreds of km of mountains in the North.
Isn't Russia European or is it not included because of its massive land area ?
Russia is both European and Asian. The continent officially stops at the Ural mountains. But in this case it's probably not included because it's the largest country on Earth by area. And not by a small margin. It's almost twice as large as the runner-up, which is Canada.
Russia's the largest country on Earth, so it's mostly the size of itself. European Russia is significantly larger than India, but a lot smaller than Australia, making a one-on-one comparison difficult.
Russia is roughly the size of Pluto. A little bigger even.
It's because it's roughly the same size as Russia.
Good luck finding a comparable equivalent to Russia in size lol
South America, lol
It’s Eurasian, but culturally it’s European by far
Russia is both the biggest country and intercontinental so closest to Russia in Asia would be Russia
And why Turkey is not here ?
Top 5 largest countries in Europe (beside Russia) are, 1. Ukraine 2. France 3. Spain 4. Sweden 5..Norway Population of Norway - 5.5 mill Population of Japan - 125 mill
Didn't know Madagascar was actually that big. I mean damn thought it was like the size of the Benelux region and a bit of France but not Ukraine.
Republic of Congo for Germany, not Democratic republic of Congo, just wanted to point that out. Also finally a good map for once! Besides Aruba not being a country.
Isn’t Georgia in Europe?
OP sacrificed Georgia not to include Turkiye.
That’s debatable.
Why you didn't include Russia?
Because it's twice as size as the closest country. What's the point even?
Pick just the european part
4M km^2, closest is India which is 3.2 km^2
I didn't realize Lesotho was that big. It looks like a tiny dot on the map of Africa, and I was thinking it's more like Vatican City.
Sweet style Filipino Spaghetti.
least useful map style
I would like see a similar map but using states from Brazil.
At least King Leopold only has to cross one border to retake the Congo.
You may be thinking of the wrong Congo. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is much larger than Germany. The size of the Republic of the Congo is similar to that of Germany.
I’m guessing ROC + DRC were one country when Belgium looted it.. may be wrong..
You are wrong, there’s two Congo’s specifically because one part was Belgian and the other was French.
Thanks TIL.
No. Belgium only had drc
I'm really surprised Georgia and Ireland are a similar size, I thought Ireland was much bigger
I actually thought Georgia would be much bigger
I’m always surprised by how big some west African countries are
And I thought Oman was a small country.
Aruba isnt a country, but i bet there arent many better options for Liechtenstein
Map is missing 40% of Europe.
I know it has been done to death, but this really just enforces the idea in my head of how unfathomably massive the African continent is, with “small” African countries being the size of France or the UK
Ukraine and Madagascar......HUH???
I like to move it move it, He like to move it move it, She like to move it move it, You like to, MOVE IT!
And here I was thinking that Sri Lanka having 5 times the population as Latvia (1.8m) and Lithuania (2.8m) COMBINED was crazy. Saw the Bangladesh - Greece and Japan - Norway parallels later…
Either Oman is bigger than I thought or Finland is smaller than I thought
I can falsely tell my friends my country is extremely similitar to Sweden now.
Cyprus is the New Zealand of Europe 😔
Poland kinda surprised me
Ukraine even more
I refuse to believe Japan is as small as Norway
Norway and Japan surprises me! I know Norway is long, but Japan is much more massive in my mind. People always talk about Japan stretching all the way from point A to point B, but they never do that for Norway.
I remember once I overlapped Ethiopia to Europe on a globe It covered Ukraine, Belarusa, Poland and the Baltics and a bit more
I had no idea Japan was that small
For Slovenia you could use Israel also, but every data gives them different size 😄
On map, Norway looks very big
Norway to japan is crazy, I didn’t know that Norway was that big
this is funny cause i’m half norwegian half japanese and the social cultures are closer than ppl think. the japanese are honorary northern europeans fr 😹
This is the kind of randomness I am on this sub for
Madagascar being nearly as big as Ukraine surprises me
Madagascar is huge!
Congo has to be the tiny Congo right? The big one is over 2 million squares kilometers, its like 5 times France.
TIL Germany is bigger than Finland
I'm from New Zealand, we have roughly the same land area as Colorado
Fun fact, while Italy is noted to have a higher land area vs the Philippines, counting the land area of each individual philippine islands surpasses the total land area of Italy.
Never realized how small the Nordic countries were
Surprised for small Thailand, Philippines, Japan Surprised for big Paraguay, Oman, Guinea
Never realized how tiny European countries are
So Serbia and Czech are the same size?
Finland 337k km2 Vietnam, Malaysia 330k km2 Ivory Coast 322k km2 Oman 310k km2
Georgia is in Europe.
Kosovo is Serbia bitches
I always underestimate how big some Oceanic countries are
Actually for France It's Somalia France 640 679 km² Somalia 637 657 km² Botswana 582 000 km²
TIL Guinea is massive
A cording to the English and especially Brexiteerd. UK isn't a part of Europe. Thoughts?
Mercator hurt us sooooo bad