21 January 2011

What If the Largest Countries Had the Biggest Populations?

Strange Maps' Frank Jacobs sets the stage:

What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on?

Here's the result:

What If the Largest Countries Had the Biggest Populations?

Oddly enough, the people of four countries wouldn't have to pull up stakes and move if the world was reorganized this way: Brazil, Ireland, the United States and Yemen.