A New World Map

Nations by size. See large


Seeing as we all walked out of Africa and spread, borders are inherently illusory. So, as a thought experiment, this map has been circulating which shows nations given new land based on population. India, for example, gets to occupy Canada while Canada gets Pakistan. Pakistan is moved to Australia. We, sadly, lose Sri Lanka and are sent to what looks like Uzbekistan (uncool). Where people live, of course, has more to do with chance and war than mathematical sense, but it is interesting to see how the world would look if it was divided up equally (34 people per mi²).

Story via Big Think, via Andrew Sullivan.

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2010-11-30 08:10:55

Better give the Indians some clothes. Their own winter can kill them, remember?

 
shammi
2010-11-30 10:49:50

34 people per sq. mi. sounds good, but I ‘m not leaving my little island.

 
2010-11-30 11:42:40

I’d leave this island if they put me in that mystery island on LOST.

indian
2010-11-30 17:22:02

Left-right, get LOST.

 
 
2010-11-30 13:06:50

No change for Brazil and US..Interesting!

 
2010-11-30 20:07:28

I find it rather funny that Bangladesh actually needs all of India to properly stretch out

 
shammi
2010-12-01 00:34:42

I don’t find anything funny here anymore because my favourite avatar hasn’t showed up in over 24 hrs.

The way of the Dodo
2010-12-01 10:44:43

there there, mahinda will return.

I wonder what happened to ruki

shammi
2010-12-01 12:27:06

Mahinda indeed! I suspect he’s changed his name again, but Ruki seems to be hibernating.

Thank God you’re back, Dodo. I thought that madly exciting job of yours had finally given you a cardiac arrest.
I didn’t mind you dying really, only feared I’d miss your posts so much that I wouldn’t enjoy reading indi.ca as much as I used to. : P

So please give us some warning before you absent yourself in future, ok?
p.s. – In return, I promise not to mention your unmentionables again, even if I did credit you with impeccable taste the last time. (I would have said pure silk boxers, you know, but I didn’t think you’d bother with those. They require a lot of fuss like washing by hand)

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2010-12-01 20:02:01

@indian
left right?
I got LOST right in the middle, if you know what I mean.

 
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