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    Die Blaue Banane: Europas am dichtesten besiedelter Korridor mit rund 111 Millionen Menschen

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    4. AlwaysBeQuestioning on

      111M is surprising, but I guess Germany has a lot of people, plus this contains London and three entire countries.

    7. ACE_Wrap on

      Basically the axis along the Rhine and it’s tributaries. Including the Thames, their confluence just happens to be under water currently.

    9. Choice-Sky3432 on

      How about we call it „europe’s upside down purple jalapeno without its ponytail“ or „the orange quarter³ boomerang“? 

    10. AdministrationOwn724 on

      Kind of weird to exclude Paris in this. Also, i live inside the blue banana, yet the population density of my province is the rather low 85 people per km2. Hardly the most densely populated place in europe.

    11. Positive_Duty_8450 on

      Not a coincidence that this was more or less also the wealthiest and most developed area in medieval Europe, although northern France should also be included.

    12. living2late on

      As someone from rural North Wales, it’s amusing to see us included in this. The banana should probably be shorter.

    17. Flilix on

      111 million seems low to me for what’s marked on the map?

      Benelux + Northern France = over 30 million

      Most of England = ca 40 million

      Most of Germany = ca 50 million

      Switzerland = 8 million

      Northern Italy = maybe 20 million?

    18. mion81 on

      This “banana” doesn’t look like it conforms to EU regulation 1333/2011 on the curvature of bananas. And let’s not even get started on the color.

    21. IndividualSkill3432 on

      [https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/accounting-great-divergence](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/accounting-great-divergence)

      Table 1 with data from Stephen Broadberry shows that there were the wealthiest areas in the world going back to the Late Medieval Period.

      [https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/accounting-great-divergence](https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/accounting-great-divergence)

      These were where the greatest concentration of early printing was to be found

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press#/media/File:Printing_towns_incunabula.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press#/media/File:Printing_towns_incunabula.svg)

      These were regions that were often hitting 50-90% literacy rates by the mid 1700s

      [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cross-country-literacy-rates?country=NLD~ESP~ITA~GBR~SWE](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cross-country-literacy-rates?country=NLD~ESP~ITA~GBR~SWE)

      These were regions famed for the metal work such as Milanese and Gothic Armour

      [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_plate_armour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_plate_armour)

      It is centred on 3 rivers, the Po Valley, the Rhine and Thames. Which were all major medieval centres of crafts and finance.

      And were the first places in the world to industrialise

      [https://pressbooks.nvcc.edu/app/uploads/sites/46/2024/07/Spread-of-industrial-rev-1024×751.png](https://pressbooks.nvcc.edu/app/uploads/sites/46/2024/07/Spread-of-industrial-rev-1024×751.png)

      (along with the NE US)

    22. SeeCopperpot on

      “Banana”, 😂
      I’m right in the middle of that, there where the shaft curves!

    30. Troelski on

      I mean, Germany on its own, which seems like a bit over half the size of the blue banana, would be almost 85 million.

    33. Low_Technician7346 on

      yes because in France the minimum salary is still 1400 euros per month

    35. Murky-Afternoon-6168 on

      There’s also a yellow and green banana & the Gulf of Finland which is red a shit load of people live there as well Europe is so interesting

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