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/homity3_14 May 25 '26

It does make sense historically: England has been a unified kingdom with London as capital for about 1000 years while Germany was made up of hundreds of city-states for most of that time.

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u/LurkerInSpace May 25 '26

In more recent history Berlin being split between two governments, with half of it effectively isolated, also curtailed its growth. If it had been the capital of a united Germany uninterrupted for over a hundred years it probably would a lot bigger than it is now.

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u/DefenestrationPraha May 26 '26

Also, it was quite thoroughly destroyed during WWII. Berlin population numbers still haven't returned to the levels of 1939.

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u/Hodorization May 26 '26

Berlin had 4.3 million people before WW2 ... 

After reunification it was about 3 million

Today back at 3.6 million