Angola has 29.78 million (according to Wikipedia in 2017), which may well displace Kenya from 5th place. It depends on how you estimated the "30 million" number for Kenyans living south of the equator.
I took a look at the population density map of Kenya. I think 30 million was an underestimate. 40 million seems closer. The area south of the equator is much more heavily populated.
According to Worldometers, the entire population of Kenya is just over 53 million... which means that almost 100% of Kenya's population lives in the southern hemisphere even though there's a sizable chunk of the country in the Northern Hemisphere.
Bangladesh has an area of 57,320 sq miles (148,460 km²), while Russia has an area of 6.60 million sq miles (17.10 million km²). Russia ÷ Bangladesh = around 115.
As someone who has been to Bangladesh... people exaggerate this a lot. Dhaka is very crowded for sure but the population density in other parts of the country isn't that crazy. There's a lot of people but there's also tons and tons of farmlands as well as jungles, rivers, beaches.. then there are parts of the country like the Sundarbans where you won't see a lot of people. And there are parts of other countries with similar population densities. I mean, have you seen the population distribution of Egypt? And India, China, and Indonesia all have states/regions of similar population density. The difference between Bangladesh and Russia is that in Russia something like 20% of the country is habitable whereas Bangladesh it's like 90%. It's not as much of an anomaly as people seem to think.
If each answer only includes people living in that hemisphere... then it would be a lot more clear if only the portion of the country contained within that hemisphere turned green. For instance when you guess Brazil, the portion below the equator should turn green while the portion above remains yellow. This way you don't think that you got one right for the NW quadrant when you haven't.
That is not what hemisphere means. Northern or southern, eastern or western. When you divide it into four, hemisphere is not a correct word. Quadrant would be a more correct word in this case.
PacoGee A language is a living thing that changes over time, there are words in the OED that didn't exist when it was created as well. Any dictionary that doesn't recognize that languages change over time is a crappy dictionary
Pretty cool quiz. Definitely some answers that I wouldn't have gotten without having the lines drawn on the map (and I would have felt pretty stupid for not remembering that the Prime Meridian runs through England).
I think that maybe Ecuador (16.5 mil) should replace Bolivia (11 mil). I don't think that more than 5.5 million people live in Ecuadorian northern hemisphere part.
Finally France is counted "normally" for once. After so many quizzes on jetpunk one gets slowly indoctrined South-America -> France, you would almost forget it is in Europe!
There are ten countries in the NE that show up as correct answers (for some quadrant), seven countries in the NW, six countries in the SW, and five in the SE. I don't doubt QM's math, but it sure is confusing to do this quiz using the map.
Nice idea, but the name of this quiz is confusing. If we consider hemispheres, China is the most populated in both northern and eastern hemispheres. So the name should be more like "quarters" or "quadrants". Also, as someone already mentioned, it would be nice if only a part of a country would turn green upon typing correct answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mapa_de_Colombia_(poblaci%C3%B3n_por_departamentos_2012).svg
They should top Canada, probably Spain too.
Now look at Bangladesh.
Now look at Russia.
Now look at Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has more people.
It must be like being in a crowded bar, all of the time.
Now look at Russia.
Now look at Bangladesh.
It has 66 million inhabitants, and is in the Northwest Hemisphere, so it should be third, in front of the UK.