World divided into 82 equal-population regions, 1945

Each region holds about 29 million people in 1945 (82 × 29M ≈ 2.37 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 29 million people in 1945.

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Alaska
California · Nevada
Canada · Montana
Mexico
Texas · New Mexico
Michigan · Wisconsin
Colombia · Cuba
Argentina · Chile
Brazil 1
Brazil 2
Spain · Morocco
Ghana · Mali
United Kingdom 1
France
United Kingdom 2
Algeria · Tunisia
Netherlands · Denmark
Nigeria
Germany 1
Italy 1
Germany 2
Italy 2
Czechia
Poland
Hungary · Greece
South Africa · Dem. Rep. Congo
Egypt
Romania · Bulgaria
Belarus · Finland
Ukraine
Tanzania · Mozambique
Turkey
Ethiopia
Iran · Sudan
Afghanistan · Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan · Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Pakistan
Gujarat
Rajasthan
Punjab
Maharashtra
Karnataka
Ladakh · Himachal Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Tamil Nadu · Sri Lanka
Andhra Pradesh · Telangana
Xinjiang 1
Uttar Pradesh
Odisha · Chhattisgarh
Tibet 1
Jharkhand · Nepal
Xinjiang 2
Bihar · West Bengal
Bangladesh
Xinjiang 3
Tibet 2
Assam · Meghalaya
Qinghai
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Yunnan · Arunachal Pradesh
Gansu
Thailand
Vietnam · Myanmar
Sichuan · Guizhou
Indonesia 1
Inner Mongolia 1
Guangxi · Hunan
Shaanxi · Hubei
Hebei · Shanxi
Shandong · Anhui
Jiangxi · Taiwan
Philippines · Guangdong
Inner Mongolia 2
Indonesia 2
Jilin
South Korea · North Korea
Heilongjiang
Sakha (Yakutia)
Japan 1
Japan 2
Australia
Japan 3

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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