The geography of population

According to the editor of the Brilliant Maps, web site, this circle not only contains half the world’s population, it also contains:

  • The highest mountain (Everest)
  • The deepest ocean trench (Mariana)
  • A majority of the world’s Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Communists.
  • The world’s most sparsely populated independent nation (Mongolia)

Below is the circle that contains the largest possible number of the world’s people.  It is not greatly different from the circle that contains the largest possible acreage of the world’s land area.  Geography, it seems, is Euro-centric.

However, the world’s population center – the point on the earth with the shortest average distance to every person on earth – is believed to be somewhere in Central Asia or northern South Asia.

And here is a map that will enable you to figure out how many people live on your half of the world.

If you click on the links, you can get enlargeable versions of these maps.

More People Live Inside This Circle Than Outside It on Brilliant Maps.

How Much of Humanity Is on Your Side of the World? on Brilliant Maps.

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One Response to “The geography of population”

  1. Nikolai Vladivostok Says:

    I’ve spent a lot of time in that circle, can confirm it’s chockablock. What they call countryside to an Australian looks like suburbs.

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