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    Wusste sonst noch jemand die Hälfte der Bevölkerung? [place] lebt [direction] dieser Zeile?! (US/Kanada-Ausgabe)

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    1. The_Toastboy on

      Made by me in QGIS and Python. Hopefully this puts this type of post to rest for good.

    3. Big_Size_2519 on

      Vermont is interesting. Never thought that most of the population is on the west

    6. IcedEmpyre on

      The vast majority of the Minnesota population live in the little tip up along the north shore.

    7. EphemeralOcean on

      For any state, there are a number of lines that could have been drawn. Like for Indiana, you have a a vertical line splitting it into East and West, but you could have just as easily (presumably?) drawn a horizontal line that split the population into North and South. Are they arbitrary or did you always do so in a way that created the most unequal population halves when taking into account land area or what?

    8. markjohnstonmusic on

      What subdivision has the smallest red area, percentually? Must be Quebec, no?

    9. FlyingMonkeySoup on

      okay now plot the largest populated city for each subnational division and have your minds blown…

    10. UrsaMinor42 on

      If you add up all the First Nations reserves, their total areas is slightly more than the size of Vancouver Island.

    11. curiouscirrus on

      The line on Georgia doesn’t seem low enough to include Atlanta. Perhaps there’s enough north to account for 50%, but I’m skeptical.

    12. TooSwang on

      I love this map! Genuinely a novel concept and I feel like I’ve actually learned a little human geography from it

    13. schtroumpf on

      Weird that NH’s dense half doesn’t seem to include its own largest city

      Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying this map is wrong only that it’s surprising that the line can be drawn in such a way as to exclude Manchester from the dense half. Presumably it could be drawn to include Manchester, too.

    15. tankiePotato on

      Texas really surprises me, as far as I can tell the red includes a very small amount of DFW and none of Austin, San Antonio. If you shifted the angle of the line a little bit it would pretty much line up with most ppls definition of East Texas. Never new it was that dense

    16. SheaDingle on

      In canada and north usa the population is south and near shore. In more southern usa the population is north. Not 100% of them and at a glance but thats neat.

    23. Lieutenant_Joe on

      The New Mexico one doesn’t include Albuquerque, does it? That’s kind of crazy.

      Also hilarious that Delaware and Rhode Island’s lines are functionally invisible

    24. beer_is_tasty on

      Or, „how close is the biggest metro area to the middle of the state“

    25. Kdj2j2 on

      Tennessee? Nashville, Memphis and Chattanooga lumped together makes no sense. And the northern suburbs of Nashville can’t possibly offset the difference.

    32. chaos-and-effect on

      I’m surprised that North Dakota’s “smallest area containing half the population” would be the south (splitting Fargo and Bismarck) rather than the east (including all of Fargo and Grand Forks).

    34. weaselsdad on

      Very surprised about WV. It looks like Charleston, Parkersburg, Huntington, Wheeling, Weirton, and Morgantown are all in the red area. 6 of the top 7 most populated cities in the state

    35. TaylorBitMe on

      Now this is real map porn. This satisfies my inner nerd, especially the breakdown by percentage land area. I wish I knew how to do this kind of stuff, but then again I already waste time with stuff I don’t need to do

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