What If The Largest Countries Had The Largest Populations?

Neat.
But they seem to think my home province of Newfoundland (island on the east coast Canada, replaced with the country of Sint Maarten) is a country.

That's unforgivable!

Ha! Finally Madagascar is more accessible! No so smug now, are you! :P

That's St. Pierre and Miquelon. Being from Newfoundland you should have known that.

So the USA has finally done something right! It's in the right spot according to its population. Hurrah.

Good luck trying to support a billion people on the tundra of Siberia or Canada, or 130 million in the deserts of Australia. Not to mention moving the population of Vietnam to Greenland...

Really cool map!

We should really do this and see what happens.

Can anyone read what country replaced Israel? Where did Israel move to?

Nevermind, Israel now occupies Greece. But I still can't read who they moved to Israel.

Interesting that they decided to go with countries and outlying areas, though I suppose that the map wouldn't really match up if they didn't.

Israel is replaced by Estonia, and Lebanon is apparently the Solomon Islands...which I guess is its own country and I really didn't know that. Palestinian Territory is Luxembourg.

Hmmm...I cant tell if the labeling is weird and Palestine is what's replaced by Luxembourg, or if the area Luxembourg is in is the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. It looks like the map they chose chopped off the internationally-unrecognized annex of those Jordanian areas and made them their own country. Odd.

Fun, the Korea's can continue their war without a problem! Although how to sink a naval vessel from Zimbabwe.......

Yeah, this map isn't 100% right.
Sint Maarten is since a week or what part of The Netherlands.

A lot of people are gonna need new, and warm, clothes!

@Dutchmen
St. Maarten is a part of the kingdom of the Netherlands since a long time. The thing that changed is that the intermediate Netherlands Antilles dissapeared as organisation in that kingdom. The kingdom used to be: the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, now it is: the Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao, St. Maarten. The other smaller islands now have the status of special municipalities of the Netherlands (Saba, Statia, Bonaire). So St. Maarten is a country now, tied to the Netherlands (more or less like the British commonwealth). You'll see the next summer olympics, that is if they have any athletes.
I.e. this only counts for the Dutch part of the island, the French part Saint Martin is a part of France...I suppose.

@theo,
that's not zimbabwe

No Scotland or Wales, but a Northern Ireland and Vatican city? Weird definition of countries. The UK is not a country.

Interesting to realise how Russia screws up the political agenda over the past 90 years when you see how mediocre their population actually is.

And in Europe Borat finally can do maximum damage with most glorious nation of kazakstan.

PS shouldn't we support Scotland, Wales and Flanders in seeking their own turf ?

@bjw: I am pretty sure St Maarten was put in the spot of the French overseas collectivity of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, which is off the coast of your home province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

And witch country will find its new residence in French Guyana? because no country is stated there....

Great map! I posted this to the APF forum for discussion. Hope that's OK?

Alex Barton
Australian Property Forum