this video is made possible by hellofresh go to URL_TOKEN and use the code reallifeloreNUMBER_TOKEN to get NUMBER_TOKEN free meals including free shipping here's a question for you to think about what is the smallest circle that you can create on the earth's surface that has more people living within it than outside of it for a moment you may be tempted to place the center of your circle in the middle of times square in new york city after all more than NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN people will walk through this square every single day the epicenter of an urban area with more than NUMBER_TOKEN million people and the beating heart of the world's most powerful country the new york city metropolitan area has more people within it than NUMBER_TOKEN of the world's countries do and so you'd be pretty forgiven for thinking that it's at the epicenter of the world's population and yet despite all of that it's really nowhere near the true center of the world which is arguably over on the other side of the planet here at monket burma this is a relatively small town of only about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN people and it's rarely visited by any tourists and yet if you drew out a circle from here with a radius of NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN kilometers with monket precisely in the center you will find that this is actually the smallest circle you could create that contains more people inside of it than outside of it this fascinating phenomenon was first realized back in NUMBER_TOKEN when a reddit user going by the name of valerie pyrus and known in real life as ken myers posted a very similar map with a very similar idea that looked like this rather than monket this map was centered instead over the south china sea and with only a NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN kilometer radius it only included parts of NUMBER_TOKEN countries and was shockingly small excluding the entirety of europe north america south america africa australia and even most of asia entire massive countries like the united states brazil egypt and russia were nearly entirely left out and as a result the claim spread like wildfire throughout the internet and news media ever since the claim has been backed up by nearly everyone from the washington post to professors from the london school of economics so how does the math all break down well for starters the circle includes the entirety of china and india the world's two most populous countries that when combined are home to NUMBER_TOKEN billion people and more than NUMBER_TOKEN of the entire human population already on their own china and india combined have more people than the entirety of africa europe north america and australia all combined but there's many more highly populated areas within the circle than that most of pakistan is included with her NUMBER_TOKEN million people bangladesh adds NUMBER_TOKEN million japan adds another NUMBER_TOKEN million the philippines adds a further NUMBER_TOKEN million vietnam another NUMBER_TOKEN million the korean peninsula another NUMBER_TOKEN million while the islands of chava sumatra and borneo all add together another insane NUMBER_TOKEN million the small island of java alone roughly the same size as the us state of louisiana is the world's most populated island with nearly NUMBER_TOKEN million people calling it home which is a higher population than the entirety of russia all crammed together on an island that's smaller than louisiana but what's also fascinating is that the circle also includes a lot of empty areas too it includes nearly the entirety of mongolia the world's most sparsely populated country where on average you'll
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