I enjoy looking at ‘what-if?’ maps. I found this one today, showing how the population of North America would fit into Europe.
I enjoy looking at ‘what-if?’ maps. I found this one today, showing how the population of North America would fit into Europe.
beetleypete 
Ha! This is cool, tnx for sharing!
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Thanks for your comment. I’m glad you enjoyed the map. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I wish we could share links here but there is a post on a website called far and wide that includes 45 amazing world maps and it is fascinating. Everything from alcohol consumption per country to most popular last name by European country.
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Many such maps as you describe are also on Pinterest, Abbi. That’s where I found the ones I used. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Good old (and small) Europe. Lol As Rumsfeld said some years in the past. 🙂 Michael
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Rumsfeld. That takes me back. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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-)) In my opinion in this – not with envolving the Irak war – he was right for the continent Europe.
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I really don’t understand about reading maps correctly,geographically or otherwise.
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This is just showing how the populations of some countries fit into others, Arlene. I am something of a ‘map addict’. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Me too!
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Great to see a visual comparison.
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This stuff fascinates me, Peggy. I like to see such things put into context.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I do like ‘what ifs’ as well….this one is something to think about…..gives one a perspective indeed….chuq
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Pinterest is full of such maps, chuq. They make for very interesting reading. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hi Pete, my husband loves maps!! 😉
I know when Fraggy and Phil came to visit us , they were very surprized at the lot sizes of even where our home is , and not know the distance thought they could visit us (in NY ) and still go to California , in no time. It must b so nice for you guys to hop from country to country, the only hoping we do us to Canada:) 2 1/2 hours away .
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Thanks, Kathy. It takes quite a while to get anywhere from Norfolk, as it is so far east, with poor transport links, and a hopeless airport. But when I lived in London, I could be in Paris by train in 2 hours and fifteen minutes. Bruges by train in 3 hours 20 minutes, and so on. Flying from London is less exciting, as the main airport is a mission to get to, in west London.
But all of it is so much easier than for you in America, and I am aware of the distances in the US. New York to SF is further than England to New York,
(I have never been to America, but have been to almost everywhere on this map, except Scandinavia.)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Wow Pete that is a huge accomplishment .
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I have been fortunate to travel to many places, Kathy. Various parts of Africa, a lot of the Soviet Union, China, Singapore, North Africa, and so on…I haven’t been abroad since 2011, and have never been to India, or North/South America. But I am happy enough. 🙂
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Places I’ll never see .
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The U.S. (blue) will continue to gobble up European countries, while Mexico (green), Guatemala (orange) and Belize et al. (turquoise) will shrink by a few countries due to mass emigration to the States.
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You’re (possibly) not aware of the fact that immigration to Europe far outnumbers immigration to the US.
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Yes, that would be a mitigating factor.
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It sure is,
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These are just relative overviews of course. But I find them strangely interesting. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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very interesting Pete! 🙂
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I have become addicted to such ‘maps’, Wilma. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Here’s some interesting population trivia: the US has 300-mil or so, Japan half that at 150-mil…but Japan’s entire land mass equals the size of the single state of Montana!
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I love all that stuff, John. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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This is interesting but Canada is bigger than the US and yet on this map, it looks smaller. Perhaps I am reading it incorrectly.
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It is based on the population of those countries, Darlene, not Geographical size. In area, Canada is much bigger than America, but has a significantly smaller population. I hope that makes it clearer.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes, of course. That makes total sense. A large land mass but much of it uninhabitable. Thanks for clarifying.
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Quite interesting Pete. Who da thunk it?
🙂 Besties
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The sort of thing that I like to look at, Frank. Probably says a lot about me. 🙂
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Looks like ya’ll have a lot of people cramped into Europe. Thank God most of them are not Texans! 🙂
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And almost 7 million not accounted for. Maybe the Texans are in that group, Charlie? 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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