The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box
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The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box
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#2Guangzhou is usually reported as larger than Shenzhen.
A specific issue with the population of Chinese cities, though, is that the administrative 'city' division in China can be quite larger than what might be expected in the West.
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#4Used to live on Baseline Rd. It originally split Nebraska Territory to the north and Kansas Territory to the south, originally surveyed in 1859. The Colorado territory wasn't formed until two years later in 1861. (Utah territory originally began somewhere in the Rockies beyond Boulder).
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#5I was surprised by Leonora, Western Australia being there with it's population of 556 [1], I tried to find a bigger town in the area but couldn't.
I wonder if that is the smallest town on that map?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora,_Western_Australia
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#6I love how this says something about the biases that exist in making legible maps. Toronto isn’t even shown.
Any time to read a map, remember that at different scales, there’s an editorial opinion, whether direct or algorithmic, on what you see.
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#7Why are some empty ocean squares colored dark blue and some light blue? Does light blue mean there is some land mass there but it's uninhabited?
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#8This could serve as a good example of how politicians manipulate voting areas to ensure majorities. The results are probably correct, but the result is misleading.
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#9Lol. Some of the Australian towns are rather small, showing how sparse our population is:
Leonara: 2,476
Geraldton: 37,000
Mackay: 80,000
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#10Guangzhou is usually reported as larger than Shenzhen. A specific issue with the population of Chinese cities, though, is that the administrative 'city' division in China can be quite larger than what might be expected in the West.
a lot these are pretty bad representations of real population, even in the US.
ex: Jacksonville is listed as the largest city in the southeast, and strictly speaking, this is true because it's a fairly dense population area. But it's a pretty misleading statement to say that it's the largest city.
Jacksonville's metro population is only about 1.5 million.
Atlanta is in the same box and Atlanta's metro population is nearly 4 times larger (5.9 million), Nashville also beats Jacksonville (1.9 million)