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World in 82 equal-population regions

The same idea as the 1914 MapPorn reconstruction: carve the world into 82 regions of equal population. Scrub years to watch dense belts shatter and empty continents stay huge.

Also listed under historic maps. Standalone 1914 page: equal-population 1914.

Equal-population world

5 snapshots · 82 regions each. Dense places shatter into many tiles; empty continents stay huge blocs. Algorithmic partition from country (and some province) populations — comparable idea to 1914, not the same hand-drawn borders.

World 8.3B

~101.1M / region

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Historic · World · 2026

World divided into 82 equal-population regions, 2026

Each region holds about 101 million people in 2026 (82 × 101M ≈ 8.29 billion). Partitioned by recursive geographic bipartition of countries (large states split by province or longitude strips). Equal population first — borders are modern Natural Earth outlines, not period frontiers.

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Click a region — each held about 101 million people in 2026.

Legend

  • Alaska
  • Montana · California
  • Mexico
  • Canada
  • Texas · Kansas
  • Peru · Guatemala
  • Colombia · Chile
  • Argentina
  • Brazil 1
  • Brazil 2
  • Côte d'Ivoire · Senegal
  • Spain · Morocco
  • France
  • Ghana · Mali
  • United Kingdom
  • Nigeria 1
  • Niger · Benin
  • Italy · Algeria
  • Germany
  • Nigeria 2
  • Cameroon · Chad
  • Poland · Sweden
  • Dem. Rep. Congo
  • Ukraine · Romania
  • Angola · Malawi
  • South Africa
  • Egypt
  • Sudan · Uganda
  • Turkey
  • Tanzania · Kenya
  • Syria · Jordan
  • Ethiopia
  • Mozambique · Madagascar
  • Iraq · Saudi Arabia
  • Yemen · Somalia
  • Iran
  • Uzbekistan · Azerbaijan
  • Pakistan 1
  • Pakistan 2 · Afghanistan
  • Gujarat
  • Rajasthan 1
  • Pakistan 3 · Ladakh
  • Rajasthan 2
  • Maharashtra
  • Karnataka
  • Himachal Pradesh · Uttarakhand
  • Madhya Pradesh
  • Tamil Nadu · Sri Lanka
  • Andhra Pradesh · Telangana
  • Uttar Pradesh
  • Xinjiang 1
  • Chhattisgarh
  • Odisha
  • Bihar · Jharkhand
  • Tibet
  • Bangladesh 1 · West Bengal
  • Xinjiang 2
  • Bangladesh 2
  • Assam · Meghalaya
  • Qinghai 1
  • Arunachal Pradesh
  • Russia
  • Qinghai 2
  • Myanmar · Yunnan
  • Gansu
  • Thailand
  • Indonesia 1
  • Sichuan · Hunan
  • Vietnam
  • Inner Mongolia 1
  • Malaysia
  • Shaanxi · Hubei
  • Guangxi · Guangdong
  • Indonesia 2
  • Henan · Jiangxi
  • Hebei · Shanxi
  • Inner Mongolia 2
  • Philippines
  • Heilongjiang · Jilin
  • South Korea
  • Indonesia 3
  • Japan

Source: Population: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (and Gapminder historical estimates before 1950). Borders: Natural Earth admin-0 (110m), with admin-1 splits for China, India, USA, and Russia where available.

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