World divided into 82 equal-population regions, 1990

Each region holds about 65 million people in 1990 (82 × 65M ≈ 5.32 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 65 million people in 1990.

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Alaska
Montana · California
Mexico
Canada
Texas · Kansas
Cuba · Ecuador
Colombia · Peru
Venezuela · Dominican Rep.
Argentina · Chile
Brazil 1
Brazil 2
Morocco · Portugal
France · Spain
United Kingdom
Ghana · Côte d'Ivoire
Algeria · Mali
Netherlands
Nigeria
Germany
Italy
Poland · Czechia
Romania · Hungary
Dem. Rep. Congo
South Africa
Sudan · Uganda
Egypt
Turkey
Tanzania · Mozambique
Ukraine
Ethiopia · Kenya
Iraq · Syria
Yemen · Saudi Arabia
Iran
Kazakhstan · Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Uzbekistan · Jammu and Kashmir
Karnataka
Pakistan 1
Gujarat
Pakistan 2
Rajasthan
Maharashtra
Ladakh · Himachal Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
Madhya Pradesh
Xinjiang 1
Andhra Pradesh · Telangana
Uttar Pradesh
Odisha · Chhattisgarh
Tibet 1
Jharkhand · Nepal
Xinjiang 2
Bihar · West Bengal
Bangladesh 1
Xinjiang 3
Bangladesh 2
Tibet 2
Arunachal Pradesh · Assam
Qinghai
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Yunnan · Myanmar
Thailand
Gansu
Sichuan
Indonesia 1
Vietnam
Guangxi · Guizhou
Inner Mongolia 1
Shaanxi · Hubei
Hunan · Guangdong
Hebei · Shanxi
Indonesia 2
Taiwan · Jiangxi
Shandong · Anhui
Inner Mongolia 2
Philippines
Jilin · Liaoning
South Korea · North Korea
Heilongjiang
Sakha (Yakutia)
Japan 1
Indonesia 3
Japan 2

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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