[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Lohrenswald]

USA total area 3,796,742 sq mi China total area 3,705,407 sq mi.

there are some thingamajigs that makes those figures wrong. I believe mainly by excluding territories China controls but other countries (mostly India) disputes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_area
so the figure you mentioned for china excludes Taiwan and disputed areas with India, but more importantly your figure for America includes territorial waters, so actually America is 3,677,649 square mileys

 

[Hygro]

Aka it doesn't really matter

 

[Lohrenswald]

Aka it doesn't really matter

well I mean nothing really matters

 

[Hygro]

It doesn't really matter to honestly represent the graph. Focus

 

[stfoskey12]

The U.S. really should have fought for 54°40' so that it could be the second largest country by land area.

 

[Lohrenswald]

It doesn't really matter to honestly represent the graph. Focus

It does

3rd and 4th are different

It's also a map and not a graph

 

[Hygro]

it is a graph, and the 3rd and 4th are similar enough and definitions are fluid enough that they can swap places, ergo, it doesn't matter to honestly represent the graph.

 

[W|M]

Get California to secede so that the US is definitively 4th

 

[Lohrenswald]

and the 3rd and 4th are similar enough and definitions are fluid enough that they can swap places, ergo, it doesn't matter to honestly represent the graph.

that sentiment is stupid and wrong

 

[Hygro]

U mad?

 

[Mise]

It makes a pretty big difference to the most prominent parts of the map. On top of that, it's really interesting.

#TeamLohrenswald

 

[sophie]

well I mean nothing really matters

Anyone can see...

 

[EnglishEdward]

The map is a little out of date as Japan has taken over all of Sudan which was divided into two a few years back.

It would be nice to be able to drive across the border for a real Mexican taco or Greek salad.

 

[warpus]

I don't think China's area should include parts it doesn't control or disputed parts.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I don't think China's area should include parts it doesn't control or disputed parts.

It def should include areas it has but other countries say they should have
This is mainly Aksai Chin

 

[warpus]

Wikipedia says that Aksai Chin is administered by China. Yeah, I would count that. I guess sticking to "controls" makes sense instead of sticking "disputed" in there as well.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I also noticed now that the map counts Svalbard as a country which is wrong and dumb

 

[Kyriakos]

I also noticed now that the map counts Svalbard as a country which is wrong and dumb

Is that an oiling outpost or something? Could humans survive there? Seems to be a place which inhabitants of Greenland would view as inhumanely cold ^^

 

[Lohrenswald]

Is that an oiling outpost or something

It's actually a coal mining outpost lol
I'm not even joking

It's got two norwegian towns (one partially an international research place), one russian town (mostly filled with ukrainians) and a tiny polish outpost of 10 people

I think a series about the main norwegian town is currently being broadcast on like netflix or hbo or something

 

[Kyriakos]

Poland