prase comments on Minor, perspective changing facts - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 April 2013 07:01PM

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Comment author: prase 23 April 2013 09:16:30PM 2 points [-]

Just out of curiosity, what population did you expect Japan to have?

Comment author: Username 23 April 2013 09:31:09PM 8 points [-]

Not OP, but I expected Japan to have about 40-50 million, about on par with California and South Korea. 130 million is huge.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 24 April 2013 12:50:36PM 2 points [-]

I assumed around 60/70 based on ananlogy with the UK.

Comment author: Stabilizer 23 April 2013 11:26:46PM 4 points [-]

Likewise. I was thinking that it'd be about a rich European nation. I was very surprised because Japan is tiny in area; it's smaller than Montana.

Another fun population fact: there are about 250 million people in Indonesia.

Comment author: Roxolan 24 April 2013 06:03:58AM 10 points [-]

Making it the largest Muslim country in the world.

(Before learning this fact, Indonesia wasn't even on my radar when discussing Islam. It's quite moderate, so it rarely makes the news.)

Comment author: Larks 24 April 2013 07:49:41PM 2 points [-]

India is the second biggest

Comment author: JackV 24 April 2013 08:19:33PM 6 points [-]

And the fourth largest country of any sort :)

Comment author: Desrtopa 23 April 2013 10:14:41PM 5 points [-]

The Tokyo metropolitan area alone has approximately the population of California. The population of Japan has pretty intense urban concentration.