World divided into 82 equal-population regions, 1914

Each region held about 20 million people in 1914 (82 × 20M ≈ 1.64 billion). Regions follow period borders and cultural areas where possible, but equal population comes first (e.g. Nepal fused with Awadh; sparse continents form huge blocs). Polygons digitized from the public equal-population reconstruction; region names follow on-map labels and period geography.

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Click a region — each held about 20 million people in 1914.

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Mexico
Laurentia
California
Great Plains
Southeast
Hudsonia
Bolivaria
Río de la Plata
Great Lakes
Ungava
New England
Brazil
Greenland
Nordland
Iceland
Guinea
Maghreb
Sahel
Iberia
Britain
Upper Guinea
Portugal
France
Algeria
France East
Low Countries
Scandinavia
Italy
Congo
Rhineland
Balkans
Germany
Zambezia
Hungary
Poland
Ubangi
Egypt
Zanj
Anatolia
Ukraine
Mashriq
Arctic Russia
Madagascar
Moscovia
Persia
Turkestan
Arabia
Sindh
Aparanta
Malabar
Konkan
Gujarat
Ceylon
Awadh
Deccan
Western China
Brahmaputra
Burma
Siberia
Java
Nanming
Yunnan
Siam
Sichuan
Guangxi
Lingnan
Guizhou
Henan
Annam
Bashu
Yue
Min
Jiangxi
Insulindia
Moluccas
Minzhe
Zhongyuan
New Guinea
Australasia
New Zealand South
Oceania
New Zealand

Source: Equal-population regionalization of the 1914 world (~20 million per region). Digitized from the MapPorn reconstruction by u/Avishtanikuris; each region is an equal-population target, not a new census count.

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