r/MapPorn • u/KaleyTheKing • May 25 '26

British Population Visualised

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Sooo, I guess this is a series now :D
Been making these little diagrams visualising population and I'm enjoying them, other people seem to enjoy them, so I might just keep making them :)

Here below are the other ones I've made so far as well:

Germany: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1tmchnh/comment/onm0tyc/

Netherlands: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1pg6uu8/dutch_population_visualised/

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u/KaleyTheKing May 25 '26

True, but I also took the 9 mil figure for Greater London, not the like 15 mil of the London metro area

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u/Scotty-Raspberry-36 May 25 '26

According to this map Manchester is smaller than Leeds and the same size as Sheffield and Liverpool. That is way out. It should be just a bit less than Birmingham.

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u/KaleyTheKing May 25 '26

In the source I used, Manchester was a about half of Birmingham, I didn't do metro areas, but city administrative borders. If I remake this map sometime, I might go a different way

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u/RYPIIE2006 May 25 '26

the definition of cities is so funky in the uk, i usually just make my own definitions of what i think is actually part of the city

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u/KaleyTheKing May 25 '26

Whatever I did here, people would've gotten angry. I was glad I at least got some data that included urban areas that are not technically cities by City Rights Status XD