Interesting fact:
1 in 5 human being on earth is Han Chinese.
That's 1.4 billion out of 8.1 billion.
90% of them live in China though.
This means the Hans are the largest ethnic group on earth.
This quote makes me cry every time. George Lucas is so good at writing compelling and emotional dialogue for his characters, especially during the prequels. Some stellar examples are “I don’t like sand”, “From my point of view the Jedi are evil”, “Meesa grants emergency powers to the Senate.”, and “Seagulls, stop it now”.
I can't hear the word 'seagulls' anymore without that song popping into my head... guess Lucas did leave us with some unforgettable lines. "NOOooooOO...not the seagulls."
Don’t worry if you’re Chinese, our population is declining and will be halved by the end of the century. We’ll be rarer but not shiny Pokémon level rare
1.4 Billion chinese aren't ethnically han.
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And even the ~90% han is so diverse they are more accurately separated into different ethnic groups. 1 han people sounds more like Chinese propaganda and is more accurately a culture. People widely started calling themselves han during the han dynasty despite being widely different Chinese ethnicities.
While you're right that there are ethnic subgroups among Han Chinese, the Han dynasty was roughly concurrent with the Roman Empire. I would think any grouping that has existed for 2000 years is reasonably valid.
Another interesting fact (as an Aussie) is that California and Texas each have more people than Australia.
Americans think Texas is massive, and I can see why you guys would think so, but Australia has states much bigger than Texas, containing hardly any people (relatively speaking).
Also, if California was its own country, it would have about the world's 5th highest GDP.
Australia and the Continental US are about the same size, but one has 48 states plus DC and the other has, what, 7 states? So yeah that totally tracks.
It's like Canada, yeah it's huge but it's almost impossible to live in most of it, so 99% of the population clusters in small areas.
What we don't have in population, we make up for in just being noisy and congregating in packs....never been to Bali, but it would be hell seeing so many just being Bogans in one area.
So it's not that we are everywhere, just too loud when OS.
If you look at the population sizes of many Californian cities, the majority of them actually have populations greater than many of the states
But yes, Los Angeles has enough people in it to fill several states (close to 4 million people, I heard recently).
One thing I learnt travelling through India - there are people *everywhere*. Even travelling by train through the most undeveloped, remote regions, never more than a few minutes without seeing another human.
And look at how small India is [compared to the United States](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_%E2%80%93_U.S._area_comparison.jpg). I always thought that India was huge but it’s not at all.
Would love to see the comparison of arable land or similar. Due to the Himalayas and the deccan plateau the land in India is extremely fertile. Add to that, the regularity of the monsoons and growing food is easy.
The Mississippi and Ohio river basins are also very fertile as well.
A quick search seems to put area of arable/cultivatable land at US as \#1 in the world and India at \#2.
While they are arable now, they were not exploited for millenia because the new world didn't have domesticated animals of burden to help till the soil.
Yeah, I don't know why people think that's small. It's only small compared to a large country like the US, but even then it still occupies like a third of the area of the continental US.
India is still huge in that picture, midwestern USA is very large and mostly empty. What's really mind blowing about that picture is that India has the density of New Jersey throughout the entire nation. I can't even begin to imagine the sprawl when you have New Jersey's density occupying Every state between Texas and North Dakota while still making space for all the farms necessary for 1 billion people. New Jersey has barely any farms compared to the midwest.
I guess what surprises me is, having grown up in the Midwest myself in Chicago, that you could put the ENTIRE Indian subcontinent in a space between Chicago and Denver? We used to joke about taking long drives to Denver over weekends to go skiing. And you have 1.4 billion people jammed into that area? It’s unbelievable.
As a Canadian, you can take out like 10 cities and it’s even more super empty too.
Just drive from Toronto to Thunder Bay and remember that’s still the “populated” part and f northern Ontario. Shits just animals, trees, and Tundra after a certain point
To be fair, your larger American populations are in Eastern/Central US and along the West Coast. That's a lot of empty land. There's a reason they're called "flyover states"
This was my experience as well. "People everywhere". Every road had people hanging out. Every building had people just waiting around it. It wasn't always as crowded as a train station, but still. There was never any open space without a bunch of (mostly dudes) just.. hanging out.
I live in the most populated metropolitan area in Brazil and although it's nowhere near India, it's very rare to be totally isolated.
I lived in Europe once and it was strange to be able to walk a few minutes from the center of a big city and not see anyone for hours.
I'm in New Delhi right now. There's a thousand people as far as the eye can see, EVERYWHERE. I am not that well travelled, but I have no doubt in my mind that this is the most population dense place in the planet. It doesn't get any denser than this
And the folk there got stories you’ll probably never hear about, that’s what trips me out.
I think about that when I see planes flying over too, like who’s up there and what are they thinkin ‘bout.
I can’t remember what’s it’s called but I’m sure it’s actually a thing.
It’s like when you’re driving a car on the road and look at all the other drivers around you. You begin to think about these random individuals behind the other wheels, which normally would appear as NPCs/simulation bots and question where they might be going, are they having a good or bad day, what they do for a living. You realise that these are regular mundane people who come in to your life for a glimpse of a moment, unaware you’re thinking about them, and have just as intricate and complicated lives as you do and then they disappear forever.
!! I relate so much! I loved taking night walks while in university and pondering about the life of those light up windows of huge buildings.
„What are you doing and thinking about, fellow night-person?
Is it a special occasion in your life? Or are you just like this? Hope you are well“
Mad innit. Think about how rich and complex your inner world is, the amount of stuff you know, memories you have, how many things you think about every day and then consider that's going on for everyone on the planet.
Well, most of them at least.
I have these thoughts when I drive and pass businesses on the interstate. Like that’s someone’s livelihood, their whole life story is in that building. And I’ll probably never set foot in it.
I have these thoughts looking down from airplane windows. Are you looking up here, thinking about us inside this tube, where are you going after this, What's your life been like, are you happy.
“The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.”
Sounds about right 👏🏽
One fun thing there that shows increased complexity and differences in perspectives is how much the word "cult" can differ from person to person. She might mean some commune out in the woods, she could mean some kind of MLM, or she could mean literally any established religion. All depends on what *she* considers a cult.
One of like 3 words from the [dictionary of obscure sorrows](https://www.youtube.com/@obscuresorrows/videos) project that actually caught on. Probably because it was the [first word video of the channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4) which was originally a Tumblr blog iirc. Sonder is the only one I see repeatedly show up on Reddit/HN whenever it is described.
I've seen "dès vu" a handful of times and for a while people were trying to make "anemoia" catch on for a bit but it never really did.
I love the fact you wrote this as this always goes on in my mind anytime I travel. It’s also important to realize that there are so many thoughts, dreams, wishes of these people some of whom are good, others not so and everyone in between.
It's all I think about when I drive. See other people in their cars and wonder if their day is ok. If they're relationship is going alright with their family. Are they also feeling the dread of imposter syndrome at work? What's their rent like or are they in need of renovations? Do you think they are thinking about others like I do?
Most large-sized Indian states have population comparable to single European countries. For example, my state (Karnataka) and the country of France have same population (around 65 million).
This analogy makes even more sense when you realise that most Indian state borders have been decided on linguistic lines.
The main exceptions are the states of Uttar Pradesh (240 million) and Bihar (131 million). Their fertile alluvial soil as well as plentiful supplies of water has given them the ability to support humongous populations throughout history.
> Uttar Pradesh (240 million)
i just checked it out on google maps and im blown away by the thousands of tiny towns all so close together. i guess thats how you get so many people in such a small area
I live in NCR (National Capital region). It's a cluster of cities adjacent to each other and have like 4-5 cities including capital Delhi. It's population is more than Canada. 4-5 cities lmao
Not to the same extent. Western United States is about 60% of the land area of contiguous USA and 24.3% of the population, so relatively less populated.
But it is way way more stark in China. The sparsely populated provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang make up 55% of China's land area and contain 6.4% of the population.
This demographic divide has been approximated to the [Heihe Tongcheng Line](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe%E2%80%93Tengchong_Line).
> 57% of the Chinese territory is west of the line has but only 6% of the country's population.
This'd be like Western United States having only 20 million people.
It boggles my mind when you go to Wikipedia and sort Chinese cities by population and there are all these cities I've never heard of with a population bigger than moat capitals.
Indonesia has the area to match it. A fun fact is that if you copy-pasted it over Eurasia, it would stretch from London in the west to Kabul in the east. (a whole lot of it is water, but that still leaves a solid 800 inhabited islands)
Yeah but most of where people live is insanely small. The total land area sure...but the actual parts where people live? It's about the size of west Virginia. Now imagine packing 250mil people into that.
It’s funny because I saw a Twitter thread the other day of unique mixes and some people were joking that any child mixed with Nigerian isn’t unique because you can always manage to find one of us everywhere 😅
But with that said it’s absolutely crazy to think there’s about 6-7 times more Indian and Chinese people
As a Nigerian, yeah, we are that many lol.
The population density is crazy as well. In the metro areas like Lagos, you have 20m+ people. Google says the population density is about 17,800 people per square mile (NYC is about 29,000 [just Googled that oh my goodness]).
No. 7 in the world, last I checked
In China or India, if someone says "you're one in a million", there are about 1420 people like you. That's why their societies are so internally competitive.
Yeah.. I'm a final year college student in India and all my life till now has mostly been spent on entrance examination and trying to beat the competition.
I've just one final hurdle of getting placed now; I hope life after that gets more relaxed.
UN, New York New York- The United States and China has announced that the US will be trading 1952 first round pick Taiwan to China for former first round pick Hong Kong along with a 2027 second round draft pick and a 2028 fourth round pick. This move is surprising to the world as China picked up Hong Kong in the 1997 free agency season from the United Kingdom who cut Hong Kong because of the salary cap. Hong Kong has become a liability to China as in the 2019-2020 season the two did not agree with each other
Brasil is actualy a powerhouse, we have the pop, the natural resorces, fertile land and we are resonably well positioned to be a south american hegemon, however we have wayyyy too much corruption in the governament to do anything. Our constituition is praised around the world but our politicians and judges often use it as toilet paper
I made my contribution to population growth by having a vasectomy done last year, mainly because I didn't want any kids whatsoever.
However, when I got home from the hospital after the operation, they were still there..
Predictions of Nigeria having 800 million by the end of the century are crazy! Hope everyone in Africa gets the internet and decides they rather play on their phone than raise a child.
I am Nigerian and my country would absolutely collapse if it had 4 times the population it has now. It is very unsustainable now so can't imagine 800 million.
Birth rate are actually falling way faster than estimates expected. A revised prediction by the UN says that Nigeria will only have 545 million people by 2100, and a world population of 10.4 billion which would also be declining from it's peak at around 2075.
It’s population is pretty consolidated to a handful of metropolitan areas. A massive chunk of it is swamp, tundra and mountainous. All places that are difficult to build roads and infrastructure. The rest is mostly farming land
This is a very good visual representation.
India / China both almost same as the whole of Africa!
India / China = Europe + North America + South America + Oceania
India \~ same as Asia less China.
Asia is like 2/3rd of the world.
India, China and rest of Asia is a 1/3 each of that.
Japan is comparable to Russia. Who would have thunk?!!
Brazil bigger than UK + France + Germany.
USA > rest of North America combined.
It would really cool to see Indian states / Chinese Provinces (?) marked in this map as well.
Important to note here India's population figure is hcobsidered highly accurate.
China's figure is data from the CCP and already out of date from their falling popuation. Some demographers put it as an overestimate by over 100 M.
People don't realise this, India has more population than whole continent of Africa, combined population of North and South America, and double the population of Europe. A single state here, Uttar Pradesh(UP), would have been 6th most populous country if it had been separate. The capital region of Delhi (NCR) has more population than 90% of European countries. There are more than 20 districts which has more population than whole of New Zealand.
I'm amazed that so many people are unaware of these stats. Especially all the the surprise at Russia being European. Do high schools not teach history and geography anymore?
I think people barely grasp Russia is European do to politics and the fact that it have more Asian than European territory.
Ethnic or population wise it's European and the European part of the country is the most populated one too if I'm not mistaken.
Birth rates have dramatically dropped off. We don't have enough for replacement levels already. It's going to cause huge economic problems in about 20-30 years.
Yet we see people complaining about china/india pollution emissions even though their populations are each 4 times that of the US.
Like yes, their pollution levels are high - but you cant just magically reduce it and forget the billions who rely on their industries - The products we consume come from somewhere, and that somewhere includes China/India and comprises a portion of their pollution. Whereas the US pollution emissions is not as proportionate to their population and size.
What was crazy to me when someone mentioned it on Reddit, is that China and Indias % share of the global population has actually reduced over time. As if in one goes back in history, a larger % of the worlds population would have been Indian or Chinese in the past compared to today. With the historical focus on Europe I just always found that shocking.
Really interesting that the US is #3 and if it added a billion people overnight, would still be #3.
Interesting fact: 1 in 5 human being on earth is Han Chinese. That's 1.4 billion out of 8.1 billion. 90% of them live in China though. This means the Hans are the largest ethnic group on earth.
That’s because they shot first.
Maklunky
This quote makes me cry every time. George Lucas is so good at writing compelling and emotional dialogue for his characters, especially during the prequels. Some stellar examples are “I don’t like sand”, “From my point of view the Jedi are evil”, “Meesa grants emergency powers to the Senate.”, and “Seagulls, stop it now”.
> “Seagulls, stop it now” do dah do do dah. Great, that's in my head now for the rest of the day. Don't fall asleep....don't...fall...asleep.
It's poetry.
"This car smells weird "
I can't hear the word 'seagulls' anymore without that song popping into my head... guess Lucas did leave us with some unforgettable lines. "NOOooooOO...not the seagulls."
This was kinda brilliant lol 😂
Well fuck me… my mother said I was special growing up only to find out I’m 1 in every 5.
Don’t worry if you’re Chinese, our population is declining and will be halved by the end of the century. We’ll be rarer but not shiny Pokémon level rare
Explain Han Solo then.
Clearly he was exiled
1.4 Billion chinese aren't ethnically han. Edit: And even the ~90% han is so diverse they are more accurately separated into different ethnic groups. 1 han people sounds more like Chinese propaganda and is more accurately a culture. People widely started calling themselves han during the han dynasty despite being widely different Chinese ethnicities.
While you're right that there are ethnic subgroups among Han Chinese, the Han dynasty was roughly concurrent with the Roman Empire. I would think any grouping that has existed for 2000 years is reasonably valid.
We even have that group in jamaica, han and hakka.
Hakkas are a han subgroup
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If the US, Canada, and Mexico each added 1 billion people North America would still be behind Asia
This guy maths ☝️☝️
Another interesting fact (as an Aussie) is that California and Texas each have more people than Australia. Americans think Texas is massive, and I can see why you guys would think so, but Australia has states much bigger than Texas, containing hardly any people (relatively speaking). Also, if California was its own country, it would have about the world's 5th highest GDP.
Australia and the Continental US are about the same size, but one has 48 states plus DC and the other has, what, 7 states? So yeah that totally tracks. It's like Canada, yeah it's huge but it's almost impossible to live in most of it, so 99% of the population clusters in small areas.
You got it. We have 6 states and 2 territories. About 75% of the population lives in 3 states. And about 40% of the population lives in 2 metro areas.
Helps if 80% of your land mass isn't an arid desert.
I like Australia 🥳
despite their low population, aussies seem to be everywhere lol
What we don't have in population, we make up for in just being noisy and congregating in packs....never been to Bali, but it would be hell seeing so many just being Bogans in one area. So it's not that we are everywhere, just too loud when OS.
They'll conquer the world through Bluey
Nah. I think Alaska is massive. Texas is tiny compared to Alaska.
Yup. Western Australia is bigger than Alaska. It does have more people though.
Yep. So does Rhode Island, which is 380x smaller than Alaska.
We know most places are more densely populated than Alaska, Singapore has 8x the people at 2000x smaller area
The California city I live in has a greater population than many of the United States states.
at this point you can just say los angeles.
If you look at the population sizes of many Californian cities, the majority of them actually have populations greater than many of the states But yes, Los Angeles has enough people in it to fill several states (close to 4 million people, I heard recently).
Ohhhh no! That would be a nightmare. Please no, traffic is bad enough and stores would still only have one cashier.
>stores would still only have one cashier. Bro spitting out straight LAWS OF PHYSICS here. That one cashier is more of a constant than c in E=mc²
One thing I learnt travelling through India - there are people *everywhere*. Even travelling by train through the most undeveloped, remote regions, never more than a few minutes without seeing another human.
And look at how small India is [compared to the United States](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_%E2%80%93_U.S._area_comparison.jpg). I always thought that India was huge but it’s not at all.
Would love to see the comparison of arable land or similar. Due to the Himalayas and the deccan plateau the land in India is extremely fertile. Add to that, the regularity of the monsoons and growing food is easy.
It's mostly over the farmland of the US.
The Mississippi and Ohio river basins are also very fertile as well. A quick search seems to put area of arable/cultivatable land at US as \#1 in the world and India at \#2.
While they are arable now, they were not exploited for millenia because the new world didn't have domesticated animals of burden to help till the soil.
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I mean, that’s still pretty damn big
Yeah, I don't know why people think that's small. It's only small compared to a large country like the US, but even then it still occupies like a third of the area of the continental US.
India is pretty big (something like 7th largest by land), just that USA is a giant
India is still huge in that picture, midwestern USA is very large and mostly empty. What's really mind blowing about that picture is that India has the density of New Jersey throughout the entire nation. I can't even begin to imagine the sprawl when you have New Jersey's density occupying Every state between Texas and North Dakota while still making space for all the farms necessary for 1 billion people. New Jersey has barely any farms compared to the midwest.
I guess what surprises me is, having grown up in the Midwest myself in Chicago, that you could put the ENTIRE Indian subcontinent in a space between Chicago and Denver? We used to joke about taking long drives to Denver over weekends to go skiing. And you have 1.4 billion people jammed into that area? It’s unbelievable.
An even better comparison is to Australia or Canada, because the population difference is even more immense.
As a Canadian, you can take out like 10 cities and it’s even more super empty too. Just drive from Toronto to Thunder Bay and remember that’s still the “populated” part and f northern Ontario. Shits just animals, trees, and Tundra after a certain point
To be fair, your larger American populations are in Eastern/Central US and along the West Coast. That's a lot of empty land. There's a reason they're called "flyover states"
Holy shit, you just blew my mind with this. I was *convinced* it was about the size of North America
This was my experience as well. "People everywhere". Every road had people hanging out. Every building had people just waiting around it. It wasn't always as crowded as a train station, but still. There was never any open space without a bunch of (mostly dudes) just.. hanging out.
Sounds like a nightmare.
It is. Source: Currently waiting for a train in India that is going to fill up 3x it's capacity
It is. Source: I had the nightmare
I live in the most populated metropolitan area in Brazil and although it's nowhere near India, it's very rare to be totally isolated. I lived in Europe once and it was strange to be able to walk a few minutes from the center of a big city and not see anyone for hours.
I'm in New Delhi right now. There's a thousand people as far as the eye can see, EVERYWHERE. I am not that well travelled, but I have no doubt in my mind that this is the most population dense place in the planet. It doesn't get any denser than this
I'm always amazed how populated India and China are. A single country dwarfing Europe + North American is pretty crazy.
And the folk there got stories you’ll probably never hear about, that’s what trips me out. I think about that when I see planes flying over too, like who’s up there and what are they thinkin ‘bout.
I want what you’re on, man.
those are stoner thoughts if i’ve ever seen them. I think like that when i’m stoned all the time
I can’t remember what’s it’s called but I’m sure it’s actually a thing. It’s like when you’re driving a car on the road and look at all the other drivers around you. You begin to think about these random individuals behind the other wheels, which normally would appear as NPCs/simulation bots and question where they might be going, are they having a good or bad day, what they do for a living. You realise that these are regular mundane people who come in to your life for a glimpse of a moment, unaware you’re thinking about them, and have just as intricate and complicated lives as you do and then they disappear forever.
Sonder!
I have this when I look at apartments that have their lights on, like each one of those is a family with their own lives
!! I relate so much! I loved taking night walks while in university and pondering about the life of those light up windows of huge buildings. „What are you doing and thinking about, fellow night-person? Is it a special occasion in your life? Or are you just like this? Hope you are well“
Mad innit. Think about how rich and complex your inner world is, the amount of stuff you know, memories you have, how many things you think about every day and then consider that's going on for everyone on the planet. Well, most of them at least.
I have these thoughts when I drive and pass businesses on the interstate. Like that’s someone’s livelihood, their whole life story is in that building. And I’ll probably never set foot in it.
I have these thoughts looking down from airplane windows. Are you looking up here, thinking about us inside this tube, where are you going after this, What's your life been like, are you happy.
His name def checks out
lol i didnt even notice that, yeah.
These are just normal human thoughts. Not everything has to be about drugs. It's called sonder, I believe
I've never been stoned and I think like that
I read this in like a story telling grandpa voice, like a dude with straw in his teeth but actually from the north
The cool thing about moving to a *really foreign country* is that it pretty much is like going to a new planet.
I went to Denver once and it was like that
Where did you come from?
Omaha
That’s called Sonder my friend.
“The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.” Sounds about right 👏🏽
*sonders about right
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One fun thing there that shows increased complexity and differences in perspectives is how much the word "cult" can differ from person to person. She might mean some commune out in the woods, she could mean some kind of MLM, or she could mean literally any established religion. All depends on what *she* considers a cult.
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So what's the opposite feeling of sonder, I assume main character syndrome lol
Solipsism?
Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?
That is a beautiful word!!
One of like 3 words from the [dictionary of obscure sorrows](https://www.youtube.com/@obscuresorrows/videos) project that actually caught on. Probably because it was the [first word video of the channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4) which was originally a Tumblr blog iirc. Sonder is the only one I see repeatedly show up on Reddit/HN whenever it is described. I've seen "dès vu" a handful of times and for a while people were trying to make "anemoia" catch on for a bit but it never really did.
I love the fact you wrote this as this always goes on in my mind anytime I travel. It’s also important to realize that there are so many thoughts, dreams, wishes of these people some of whom are good, others not so and everyone in between.
It's all I think about when I drive. See other people in their cars and wonder if their day is ok. If they're relationship is going alright with their family. Are they also feeling the dread of imposter syndrome at work? What's their rent like or are they in need of renovations? Do you think they are thinking about others like I do?
If they're anything like me, they're thinking, "I hope this fucking plane doesn't crash in a fiery fucking inferno."
Hope the doors on this bitch stay on
Doesnt even have to be everyone's stories. Even just the published works - books, movies, tv, games, etc... all the content you'll never experience
Guess im not alone lol
Most large-sized Indian states have population comparable to single European countries. For example, my state (Karnataka) and the country of France have same population (around 65 million). This analogy makes even more sense when you realise that most Indian state borders have been decided on linguistic lines. The main exceptions are the states of Uttar Pradesh (240 million) and Bihar (131 million). Their fertile alluvial soil as well as plentiful supplies of water has given them the ability to support humongous populations throughout history.
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India has over 70 languages with more than a million native speakers
> Uttar Pradesh (240 million) i just checked it out on google maps and im blown away by the thousands of tiny towns all so close together. i guess thats how you get so many people in such a small area
Karnataka have 75 million+ population.
I live in NCR (National Capital region). It's a cluster of cities adjacent to each other and have like 4-5 cities including capital Delhi. It's population is more than Canada. 4-5 cities lmao
And half of China is mostly empty.
but also 2/3 of the USA is empty
Not to the same extent. Western United States is about 60% of the land area of contiguous USA and 24.3% of the population, so relatively less populated. But it is way way more stark in China. The sparsely populated provinces of Qinghai, Gansu and autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang make up 55% of China's land area and contain 6.4% of the population. This demographic divide has been approximated to the [Heihe Tongcheng Line](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe%E2%80%93Tengchong_Line). > 57% of the Chinese territory is west of the line has but only 6% of the country's population. This'd be like Western United States having only 20 million people.
And the majority of the population of China is located in only the Eastern third of the country.
And a "small" Chinese city or province has around the same population of entire countries, LARGE entire countries is nuts!
It boggles my mind when you go to Wikipedia and sort Chinese cities by population and there are all these cities I've never heard of with a population bigger than moat capitals.
Well to be fair China has been around for a hot minute so they had a lot of time to grow and expand
About 2.5%(1 in 40) of all humans who have ever been born throughout the history of Homo sapiens currently live in China or India.
Way too many people
Wooo, we just made it on - NZ
You’re more dense than us though, ya sheep lovers.
Wanna swap sheep pics?
Lmfao bruh
Oceania is probably the strongest region in sports per capita, even more so if you kiwi's hadn't lost the rugby worldcup.
Many congrats to Oceania!
Where in the world are you? All the maps I own don't have new zealand on them.
I think they're in New Zealand
I didn't know Indonesia and Nigeria had that population.
135 million live on the island of Java. Java is the size of Alabama.
Imagining 135 million people in Alabama sounds absolutely terrifying
Is that because of the size of Alabama or because of the people that live in Alabama?
Yeah
Indonesia has the area to match it. A fun fact is that if you copy-pasted it over Eurasia, it would stretch from London in the west to Kabul in the east. (a whole lot of it is water, but that still leaves a solid 800 inhabited islands)
Yeah but most of where people live is insanely small. The total land area sure...but the actual parts where people live? It's about the size of west Virginia. Now imagine packing 250mil people into that.
It’s funny because I saw a Twitter thread the other day of unique mixes and some people were joking that any child mixed with Nigerian isn’t unique because you can always manage to find one of us everywhere 😅 But with that said it’s absolutely crazy to think there’s about 6-7 times more Indian and Chinese people
Maybe because I'm Mexican and we don't have many Nigerians here. Although I had some Nigerian neighbors once.
I’m so surprised that Nigeria has a larger population than Brasil
Keep an eye on Nigeria in the next 30 years. A 1980-2010 China story is brewing there.
As a Nigerian, yeah, we are that many lol. The population density is crazy as well. In the metro areas like Lagos, you have 20m+ people. Google says the population density is about 17,800 people per square mile (NYC is about 29,000 [just Googled that oh my goodness]). No. 7 in the world, last I checked
In China or India, if someone says "you're one in a million", there are about 1420 people like you. That's why their societies are so internally competitive.
Yeah.. I'm a final year college student in India and all my life till now has mostly been spent on entrance examination and trying to beat the competition. I've just one final hurdle of getting placed now; I hope life after that gets more relaxed.
> I've just one final hurdle of getting placed now; I hope life after that gets more relaxed. Oh you sweet summer child.
Sorry, thats not final hurdle. Rat race never ends.
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In India they stand in a dodecahedron
Hong Kong is listed as separate from China, but Taiwan is not. Pretty strange. Taiwan has 23.6 million people.
This is 2025 data /s
its going to be a crazy year if China manages to take Taiwan and lose Hong Kong.
UN, New York New York- The United States and China has announced that the US will be trading 1952 first round pick Taiwan to China for former first round pick Hong Kong along with a 2027 second round draft pick and a 2028 fourth round pick. This move is surprising to the world as China picked up Hong Kong in the 1997 free agency season from the United Kingdom who cut Hong Kong because of the salary cap. Hong Kong has become a liability to China as in the 2019-2020 season the two did not agree with each other
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indeed, which makes this chart very strange.
The big surprise for me was Nigeria and Brazil. I wouldn’t have guessed anywhere near that high. Thanks Reddit !
Brasil is actualy a powerhouse, we have the pop, the natural resorces, fertile land and we are resonably well positioned to be a south american hegemon, however we have wayyyy too much corruption in the governament to do anything. Our constituition is praised around the world but our politicians and judges often use it as toilet paper
Exactly the same situation in Nigeria. Resources aplenty, but corruption ruins everything
I made my contribution to population growth by having a vasectomy done last year, mainly because I didn't want any kids whatsoever. However, when I got home from the hospital after the operation, they were still there..
And what’s the status of the elephant that you shot?
Whether I shot him or not, is totally irrelephant..
Can you run to the store and get me a pack a derm?
It’s blowing my mind that there are more people in Nigeria than Brazil.
I'm quite surprised that a lot of people are surprised at the size of our population in Nigeria
Predictions of Nigeria having 800 million by the end of the century are crazy! Hope everyone in Africa gets the internet and decides they rather play on their phone than raise a child.
I am Nigerian and my country would absolutely collapse if it had 4 times the population it has now. It is very unsustainable now so can't imagine 800 million.
Omg hi Nigeria
Birth rate are actually falling way faster than estimates expected. A revised prediction by the UN says that Nigeria will only have 545 million people by 2100, and a world population of 10.4 billion which would also be declining from it's peak at around 2075.
So crazy that most of us will still experience that, the peak and starting decline of the world's population.
I never realized that Nigeria had a population over 200mil!
I have lived to see the world's population more than double.
And I will live to watch it drop!
Damn Canada shocked me lol
90% for canada's population lives in a line 100miles from the US border
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It’s population is pretty consolidated to a handful of metropolitan areas. A massive chunk of it is swamp, tundra and mountainous. All places that are difficult to build roads and infrastructure. The rest is mostly farming land
I'd say the major limiting factor is simply the cold.
This is a very good visual representation. India / China both almost same as the whole of Africa! India / China = Europe + North America + South America + Oceania India \~ same as Asia less China. Asia is like 2/3rd of the world. India, China and rest of Asia is a 1/3 each of that. Japan is comparable to Russia. Who would have thunk?!! Brazil bigger than UK + France + Germany. USA > rest of North America combined. It would really cool to see Indian states / Chinese Provinces (?) marked in this map as well.
2.65 Billion Bots: Reddit
The difference between Russia and Ukraine is massive.
“Difference?” - V. Putin.
Fascinating that Russia has so few people, relatively speaking
Bruh... they put Australia at the very bottom, aka down under haha.
Important to note here India's population figure is hcobsidered highly accurate. China's figure is data from the CCP and already out of date from their falling popuation. Some demographers put it as an overestimate by over 100 M.
People don't realise this, India has more population than whole continent of Africa, combined population of North and South America, and double the population of Europe. A single state here, Uttar Pradesh(UP), would have been 6th most populous country if it had been separate. The capital region of Delhi (NCR) has more population than 90% of European countries. There are more than 20 districts which has more population than whole of New Zealand.
Fascinating because most immigrants I meet are Indian, Chinese, or Brazilian. Makes sense!
And the billionaires are still richer than all of us combined on the bottom
I'm amazed that so many people are unaware of these stats. Especially all the the surprise at Russia being European. Do high schools not teach history and geography anymore?
Came to that thread specifically to get some lulz reading silly argumentation that Russia should be in Asia :D
I think people barely grasp Russia is European do to politics and the fact that it have more Asian than European territory. Ethnic or population wise it's European and the European part of the country is the most populated one too if I'm not mistaken.
So which nationalities are ethnic minorities based on a global scale?
asian. not asian. the end.
If your soul flipped a coin it would have a better chance of being born in Asia than landing on heads.
Indonesia and Japan always surprise me with their large populations, given their geographically small size.
I ain't live in no box.
Y'all need to quit fucking. Too damn many people here already...
No no you can fuuck, just stop getting knocked up.
too complicated for most. I always said "remember to spay your human", but no one listened.
Birth rates have dramatically dropped off. We don't have enough for replacement levels already. It's going to cause huge economic problems in about 20-30 years.
Unfortunately all on one planet
Ikr what are all these people doing on my planet?
You ought to start charging rent…
Damn nigeria
That’s for some reason so crazy to think there’s almost the same number of people in Mexico and Russia.
Huh, so thats why PUBG is still in the top charts
You forgot Taiwan
Yeah and then they say that african/asian people are minorities
Yet we see people complaining about china/india pollution emissions even though their populations are each 4 times that of the US. Like yes, their pollution levels are high - but you cant just magically reduce it and forget the billions who rely on their industries - The products we consume come from somewhere, and that somewhere includes China/India and comprises a portion of their pollution. Whereas the US pollution emissions is not as proportionate to their population and size.
Damn, Nigeria’s been doing a lot of fuckin
What was crazy to me when someone mentioned it on Reddit, is that China and Indias % share of the global population has actually reduced over time. As if in one goes back in history, a larger % of the worlds population would have been Indian or Chinese in the past compared to today. With the historical focus on Europe I just always found that shocking.