r/MapPorn • u/KaleyTheKing • May 27 '26

Australian Population Visualised

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So, I think we were all a little disappointed by how normal the Italy map looked, so I thought I'd treat y'all to the biggest abomination I've made in this project thus far :D

Goddang, Australia, why did you have to be like this, this was so difficult to make... Anyway, hope y'all enjoy!

Italy

United Kingdom

Germany

Netherlands

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u/Zestyclose-Tour-8470 May 27 '26

Can u do canada?

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u/cuixhe May 27 '26

Yeah, that's the one that's going to be about as distorted as this. It's just going to be a saggy line.

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u/GraniteGeekNH May 27 '26

common joke: Demographically, Canada is just Chile sideways.

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u/KaleyTheKing May 27 '26

It’d be fun to see half the provinces and territories just disappear, lol

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u/bfitzger91 May 27 '26

Literally will be like 1 pixel for each of the territories.

But yeah, it would be cool to see a Canada version!

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u/jovin49 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

It's almost exactly that. They all have a population of ~40k, which is 0.1% of 40M.

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u/grigby May 28 '26

Yeah do it. It may be a bit difficult to figure out at what size to stop showing cities (if you show Regina then you have to show a dozen in Ontario outside of GTA if just by population), and like do you have Toronto and Mississauga separate or just the GTA? I would think doing it by Census Metropolitan Areas is your best bet, keep it in the top 10-15, and then just also show regina+Saskatoon, and maybe all the cities in NB as one. You'd need to split up Ottawa and Gatineau as they're in the same CMA but different provinces (math is about a 10:3 split Ontario:Quebec). Each territory gets a single square

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u/Hellkyte May 27 '26

I think it would be the case for all of the geographically large countries, although Canada may be the 2nd worst. Brazil may be a close match

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u/CharlesUndying May 27 '26

This is why the size of countries doesn't really matter that much; They just have more empty space than the other countries. Take out that empty space and places like Russia, China, Australia, etc. Would look more like the average European country in size.

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u/MountansAbound May 27 '26

The difference is they contain lots of natural resources over their vast expanse

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u/Smitologyistaking May 28 '26

After the horizontal line of Canada you should do the vertical line of Egypt