Brazil being colored made me a little skeptical at first, but fair enough, their populations are very very close. Those fact boxes that come up on google searches give a population for UP as 204.2 million (2012) and Brazil at 207.7 million (2016) but the differences in those dates make it difficult to compare exactly.
plaidmellon on September 19th, 2017 at 20:16 UTC »
A comment about population density:
I had a conversation with an Indian friend about how populations like this work and, after looking at a zoomable population density map comparing different areas, we found that the type of density in India just isn't found in America and vice versa.
Basically India has lots of cities - of all sizes, small to huge - where the density in the city is the density of Manhattan. As soon as you leave the city the density is the density of Montana.
America, on the other hand, has all the shades of gray suburbia: from small towns with loosely centralized populations to the sprawling cities of the south. Almost all cities in the US (except parts of NYC and San Francisco) don't come close to the density of even small cities in India.
In colors, Indian cities are straight black and white. American cities are very rarely black and most are light to dark gray.
This was super interesting to me, not sure if it is to anyone else.
Uttar Pradesh (/ˈʊtər prəˈdɛʃ/), abbreviated as UP, is the most populous state in the Republic of India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. (Wikipedia)
![image showing Countries with a smaller population than Uttar Pradesh [OC]](62fd9b64-a5e5-5a26-9538-a737313d1948.jpg)
godsenfrik on September 19th, 2017 at 20:15 UTC »
Brazil being colored made me a little skeptical at first, but fair enough, their populations are very very close. Those fact boxes that come up on google searches give a population for UP as 204.2 million (2012) and Brazil at 207.7 million (2016) but the differences in those dates make it difficult to compare exactly.
plaidmellon on September 19th, 2017 at 20:16 UTC »
A comment about population density:
I had a conversation with an Indian friend about how populations like this work and, after looking at a zoomable population density map comparing different areas, we found that the type of density in India just isn't found in America and vice versa.
Basically India has lots of cities - of all sizes, small to huge - where the density in the city is the density of Manhattan. As soon as you leave the city the density is the density of Montana.
America, on the other hand, has all the shades of gray suburbia: from small towns with loosely centralized populations to the sprawling cities of the south. Almost all cities in the US (except parts of NYC and San Francisco) don't come close to the density of even small cities in India.
In colors, Indian cities are straight black and white. American cities are very rarely black and most are light to dark gray.
This was super interesting to me, not sure if it is to anyone else.
Edit: here's the website! credit to /u/suffocate for finding it http://luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#3/12.00/10.00
Odawgftw on September 19th, 2017 at 22:14 UTC »
Uttar Pradesh (/ˈʊtər prəˈdɛʃ/), abbreviated as UP, is the most populous state in the Republic of India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. (Wikipedia)