At a glance, Canada looks vast and evenly spread but when you divide the country by population, the picture changes dramatically...

[trebach@functional.cafe]

@lyon @infobeautiful New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland And Labrador are a bit over 2 million people put together

[Guest]

@infobeautiful it is wild that California has a larger population than Canada

[kmcphillips@ruby.social]

@sol_hsa @infobeautiful Yeah sadly we are real bad at trains. But a HSR is in the works finally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_(high-speed_rail)

[arenacops@infosec.exchange]

@infobeautiful Canada's still vast — and not for sale & annexation, I'm pretty sure!

[robo105@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful A wonderful way to look at our Country

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful is that Toronto in red? I didn’t realize it was so much denser than the other cities

[ve2uwy@mastodon.radio]

@infobeautiful

Not exactly a population density map but close enough.

[j1savage@social.vivaldi.net]

@mutanthumb @infobeautiful

Not so Fun fact : the province of Ontario is in worse financial shape then the state of California.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful At a glance perhaps by folk who’ve only spent time along the southern corridor. Canadians who’ve spent time outside that are very aware of this.

[colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network]

@CStamp @infobeautiful I'm actually surprised the yellow section has that many people.

[jackmexa4@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful

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[zygmyd@toot.cat]

@infobeautiful

I don't believe that there is or has been an agency in Canada called "National Statistical Agency".

[adamf@mstdn.ca]

@kmcphillips

@sol_hsa @infobeautiful

Okay, but let's not stop there, okay? I'd really like to see some HSR out this way in my lifetime, from someone out in the purple

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@infobeautiful@vis.social

Now do the US (where even not-particularly-large cities have more voters than some entire states).

[shelldozer@oldbytes.space]

@infobeautiful What kind of projection is the map? It's obviously not Mercator, but it still seems to have distorted northern area.

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@zygmyd I actually didn't find any organization in the entire world by that name. The World in Maps is on a number of platforms, but I have no idea who they are. It looks to me like someone's online project. I did not find anything that looked like a professional portal.

My own understanding of population distribution in Canada is different from this, so without some better source or validation, my sense is that this map is likely incorrect.

[jrootham@mastodon.acm.org]

@infobeautiful Many decades ago (circa 1970) the Queen's Printer created an isodemographic map of Canada using ball bearings and flexible steel splines. The result was gorgeous and informative.

[samanthajanesmith@lgbtqia.space]

@infobeautiful Nice graphic, it does seem to be similar for many countries... Russia for example.wonder what it looks like for Greenland?

[thereisnocat@toot.cafe]

@infobeautiful @carusb Poor visualization for red-green colorblind people. The third and fourth colors look pretty much identical and it’s very difficult to see the boundary between the two on the map.

[encthenet@flyovercountry.social]

@infobeautiful
Now if they had only chosen a different projection than mercator that wouldn't have amplified the apparent largeness of the parts of Canada close to the pole making this map still very wrong.