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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres
It's not clear to me why the same isn't true for the 7th of June - ie, 17 days the other side of the solstice (for fuzzy values of solstice, depending where you're standing, etc).
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Most of the world's population lives inside the Valeriepieris circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle which is covered by the time zones UTC+5 through UTC+8. So if you want to be as close as possible to as many people as possible, somewhere in Myanmar would be a better choice than London. Of course the calculus changes if you also consider how much money each of these people has access to.
Most means "almost all". Your link says about 50%.
“More than half of” is one of the definitions
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Most of the world's population lives inside the Valeriepieris circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle which is covered by the time zones UTC+5 through UTC+8. So if you want to be as close as possible to as many people as possible, somewhere in Myanmar would be a better choice than London. Of course the calculus changes if you also consider how much money each of these people has access to.
Most means "almost all". Your link says about 50%.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55920/is-most-eq...
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Most of the world's population lives inside the Valeriepieris circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle which is covered by the time zones UTC+5 through UTC+8. So if you want to be as close as possible to as many people as possible, somewhere in Myanmar would be a better choice than London. Of course the calculus changes if you also consider how much money each of these people has access to.
Most means "almost all". Your link says about 50%.
I've also frequently seen "most" used to mean "a majority", though, in which case GP's use of the term is precisely consistent with the facts in their source.
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An order of magnitude higher and it'd be of similar magnitude to the entire USA. I tend to think of Australia as pretty similar (if literally polar opposite) to Canada. Similar population and standard of living on a similarly large but largely inhospitable landmass.
Australia is basically Hot Canada.
Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.
Doesn't 80% of the world's population live within 100km of the sea as well. And I'd guess most of the remainder live close to major rivers and lakes.