The population of India is almost four times that of the US.

The image doesn't actually imply proportionality (that would be really hard to do). I think they just placed the ranking of countries by population into the ranking of countries by size.

I actually got that, but couldn't figure out how to explain that precisely. Nevertheless, it's neat!

ohhhhhhh I get it now.

Is Canada bigger than the US? I keep imagining it as a small strip of frozen wasteland.

Canada is actually flippin' huge, either the second biggest in the world by area, or close to it. It's just that so much of it is, well, not built for human habitation, that no one really lives there. And all our maps focus on us, so Canadialand is just a footnote there.

I think even the habitated parts are larger than the U.S. If we assume that no one really lives in NU and some of the NWT that is.

(although, considering the meager population I suppose we have to use the term habitated loosely. Heh.)

Oh it is! We all live in igloos and ride our dogsleds to work!

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If they all moved to Canada, it wouldn't be four times for long... unless there's been some major global warming.

Nice, though the inclusion of small territories makes things a bit cluttered. Also, Macau appears twice on the map and nothing takes its space. Vatican City and Monaco likewise don't have replacers.

Fun game: Find countries on that map that haven't moved. There are at least five.