Maps are deceiving. You see, the surface of a sphere cannot be represented as a plane without some form of distortion.
Since the 1500s, scientists have been developing algorithms that would help transform the globe into something flat, and to do this, they use a method called map projection.
There is no right or wrong way to do it, and everything depends on the map’s purpose. But while every type of map preserves one thing, it messes up the other.
Area, shape, direction, bearing, distance, and scale of the landmasses are the main properties map makers are constantly juggling. Most people usually look at the Mercator projection.
#1 Australia
Population: 23,470,145, and all trying to buy a house in Melbourne it seems
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#2 New Zealand
Population: 4,545,627 people and about 30,000,000 sheep
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#3 Russia
Population: 142,122,776
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#4 Brazil
Population: 208,846,892
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#5 India
Population: 1,296,834,042
Expected to pass China in population within a few years. Stripped bit near Winnipeg is occupied by China.
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#6 Belgium
Population: 11,570,762
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#7 China
Population: 1,384,688,986
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#8 Indonesia
Population: 262,787,403
More than half the population is on that one island running from northern New Mexico to central Oklahoma. The big island in the upper Great Plains and that thing in the Atlantic are mostly jungle.
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#9 Madagascar
Population: 25,683,610
Ports: closed.
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#10 Chile
Population: 17,925,262
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#11 Croatia
Population: 4,270,480
One of the coolest-shaped countries, like a Needler from Halo.
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#12 Germany
Population: 80,457,737
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#13 Vatican City
Population: 1,000
aka Holy See
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#14 Poland
Population: 38,420,687
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#15 Japan
Population: 126,168,156 and 1 Godzilla
Bullet train will take you from Tokyo, Arkansas to Osaka, Texas in about 2.5hrs
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#16 United Kingdom
Population: 65,105,246
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#17 Italy
Population: 62,246,674
Giving South Carolina the boot.
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#18 Argentina
Population: 44,694,198
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#19 Finland
Population: 5,537,364
May or may not exist.
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#20 Iceland
Population: 343,518
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#21 Egypt
Population: 99,413,317
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#22 Norway
Population: 5,372,191
aka, Occupied West Sweden
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#23 Netherlands
Population: 17,151,228
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#24 Vietnam
Population: 97,040,334
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#25 Sweden
Population: 10,040,995
That’s a lot of vikings.
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#26 Turkey
Population: 81,257,239
*Constantinople
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#27 Austria
Population: 8,793,370
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#28 Ukraine
Population: 43,952,299
IIRC, the Russian-occupied part in the east is roughly New Jersey, Delaware, and a bit of Pennsylvania
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#29 Georgia
Population of the country of Georgia: 4,926,087
Population of the US State of Georgia: 10,519,475
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#30 Philippines
Population: 105,893,381
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