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Old 10-09-2018, 09:48 AM
 
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Asia (13) : China, Japan, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, Pakistan, Philippines, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar

Africa (7) : Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, DR Congo

Europe (6) : Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, France, Italy, Ukraine

Americas (4) : United States, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia


Seems like there aren’t many populous countries outside of Asia and Africa.
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Old 10-09-2018, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Brussels
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I think you forgot Russia. And Ukraine is not even 45 million. Spain is much closer at 48m
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Old 10-09-2018, 10:54 AM
 
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I think you forgot Russia. And Ukraine is not even 45 million. Spain is much closer at 48m
No I got Russia as part of Europe.

Ukraine once reached 50 million back in the 1980s.
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Old 10-09-2018, 07:26 PM
 
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Out of 4 nations in the Americas, the smallest country (Colombia) will only reach 50 million this year thanks to the influx of Venezuelans.

Also by area it's bigger than all the nations in Asia bar Indonesia, Iran, India & China and Africa bar DR Congo (same size as S.Africa) and over twice as big than any nation in Europe except trans-continental Russia.

The Americas is just not as populated as much of the world.
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Old 10-09-2018, 08:58 PM
 
Location: Canada
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The Americas is just not as populated as much of the world.
Hopefully it will stay that way.
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Old 10-09-2018, 10:56 PM
 
Location: Cebu, Philippines
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In 1900. 11 of the top 30 were, and there were only 5 countries with 50-million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...lation_in_1900
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Old 10-09-2018, 11:12 PM
 
Location: London, UK
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In 1900. 11 of the top 30 were, and there were only 5 countries with 50-million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...lation_in_1900
Interesting list, I had no idea Cochin-China was a real country! Growing up I heard this all the time but I thought it was made up for rhyming effect.

In Spanish instead of saying "From here to Timbuktu", the phrase "De aquí hasta la Cochinchina" is used to convey the same meaning. Lol - go figure.
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Old 10-10-2018, 12:11 AM
 
Location: Cebu, Philippines
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I went to the bottom of the list and made a thread in
the travel forum concerning Tavolara.
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Old 10-10-2018, 02:26 AM
 
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Asia (13) : China, Japan, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, Pakistan, Philippines, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar

Africa (7) : Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, DR Congo

Europe (6) : Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, France, Italy, Ukraine

Americas (4) : United States, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia


Seems like there aren’t many populous countries outside of Asia and Africa.
good to see you finally added Russia
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Old 10-10-2018, 02:56 AM
 
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Interesting list, I had no idea Cochin-China was a real country! Growing up I heard this all the time but I thought it was made up for rhyming effect.

In Spanish instead of saying "From here to Timbuktu", the phrase "De aquí hasta la Cochinchina" is used to convey the same meaning. Lol - go figure.
"Cochin-China" was goes back to 1516, when Portuguese traders sailing from Malacca landed in Da Nang.

They named the area ,"Cochin-China", borrowing the first part from the Malay Kuchi, which referred to all of Vietnam, and which in turn derived from the Chinese Jiāozhǐ, pronounced Giao Chỉ in Vietnam.They appended the "China" specifier to distinguish the area from the city and the princely state of Cochin in India, their first headquarters in the Malabar Coast.

Timbuktoo is a much older city of immense wealth established in the 11th century. European attempts to reach the city in the middle ages failed because no Arabs would guide them across the Sahara desert. Although it was known for hundreds of years as an exotic distant city, the particular phrase did not develop until the 19th century.

Like your story with Cochinchina, many English speakers are surprised that Timbuktu is a real place, as many English speakers simply assumed it was a rhyme.
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