This thing bothers me. The relative positions of the areas are wrong and the choices about what gets a named slice versus getting lumped with the “rest of” segments is suspect. It’s like the visual equivalent of accidentally scratching your plate with your fork.
What exactly is wrong? Because I don’t see it.
Ukraine is shown to the east of Russia, which is backwards, Southern Europe appears north and east of Western Europe, and inside Southern Europe Italy appears to the west of Spain. Turkey is east of Iran and Iraq, which are both separated by “rest of ME”, South America is effectively flipped left to right, a bunch of African countries to the east of Nigeria are instead north and west of it…
It’s the map equivalent to those memes that seem like they have a sentence but it’s all garbled and some of it is harder to do this way than keeping the relative positions, so I’m not even sure it’s not on purpose.
I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to keep everything arranged “correctly” geographically while keeping the proportions correct and having them be regular shapes. If anything it’s impressive that you can get it as close as this.
It’s not close, though, it’s entirely backwards. And there is plenty of low hanging fruit here to keep things roughly aligned that they didn’t take. South America, for instance, if you just mirror that shape everything would be roughly fine. But nope. Brazil is on the west coast now for no reason.
If it was just the “rest of” shapes being in weird places I’d think about it, but there are plenty of cases where you could fix the issues for free and they chose not to.
I don’t know how old this picture is, but some numbers are wrong. Population of France is 68M, not 66M
This is definitely older as it was created before the population reached 8 billion as a visualization. So it would not match with the current numbers.
That explains why there are so many Nigerian princes down on their luck I guess
but not nearly enough Indonesian sultans in need of a short advance
And so many Indian Microsoft tech support callers
They would be a nation that by themselves would dwarf most other nations!
Wow! I would have thought Africa would be a bit larger! One thing for sure is, that hotter regions allow for more breeding!
Breed
I am fairly certain these numbers are inflated. China Dan hacked the Shanghai police bureau 2 years back. There appears to be 924ish million people in china. It makes sense to fudge these numbers to appear strong on the world stage. Mind you if everyone had the discrepancy the same as the Chinese the world population numbers would be about 5 billion. That seems very low.
