We're from one of the world's largest, emptiest countries...
Care of the National Archives of Australia
And the Nestoria offices are a little bit competitive about things, population, weather etc. So while I frequently hold 'our' own on weather and size, I do poorly in anything to do with people, historic colonial powers and famous people.
Yes, we have Kylie and Russell Crowe, but that's not really going to cut it against the hundreds of thousands more people that have been citizens of Spain or the UK. So this map, where populations are re-located into more suitably sized countries, has been passed around and debated quite a bit. It's not clear who made it, so who I should attribute it to, but we spotted it on
Strange Maps.
There are many interesting things to note about it and of course I'm going to start with Australia. We'd have to all move to Spain, which is the 51st largest country to go with our 51st greatest population. Of all the re-locations we'd have the greatest distance to travel, it's almost all the way across the globe!
But at least when we got there we'd have decent weather and a few good beaches still. The Spanish would have been moved out to Ethiopia, now neighboured by the Japanese in Sudan. And all of Pakistan would have moved to Australia.
At the top of the scale, Russia would be overtaken by the Chinese and its own population would be pushed into Kazakhstan. It's still big, but it's landlocked, so a bit of a come down for Russia's powers. Indonesians will need to move into the space formerly known as China and India would move into Canada, which represents maybe the largest climate adjustment on the scale, along with the Swiss who will be moved to Bangladesh and the Vietnamese who will have to move to Greenland!
South Korea might think they could escape their northern ex-countryman by moving to South Africa, but in purely comic form, North Korea follows them, staying to the north in what would have been Botswana. The populations of Poland, Iraq, Chile and Algeria will be their new neighbours. Italy's down there as well now.
If you're wondering what fate awaits the American people it's quite surprising: they don't move anywhere. And neither does the population of Brazil or the people of Yemen or Ireland.
Obviously this re-location can't be debated in too political a way as there's no mention of how many people the wealth of each country could support, but it can still get heated...
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