The World With All Countries Over 50 Million People Removed

The map above shows what the world would look like if you removed all countries in the world with over 50 million people.

The remaining countries would have a combined population of just 1.8 billion, a decline of 75% from the over 8 billion who are alive today.

But the earth would only lose 67,569,201 sq km (26,088,614 sq miles) of land or around 45% of the earth’s total land area.

Spain becomes the world’s most populous country with 49,077,984 people. And Canada would become the world’s largest country by area and 7th most populous.

Full list of the 30 countries removed (with population figures) and a few other observations:

India – 1,413,324,000
China – 1,408,280,000
United States – 340,110,988
Indonesia – 282,477,584
Pakistan – 241,499,431
Nigeria – 223,800,000
Brazil – 212,583,750
Bangladesh – 169,828,911
Russia – 146,028,325
Mexico – 130,294,079
Japan – 123,440,000
Philippines – 114,123,600
Ethiopia – 109,499,000
Democratic Republic of the Congo – 109,276,000
Egypt – 105,914,499
Vietnam – 101,343,800
Iran – 85,961,000
Turkey – 85,664,944
Germany – 83,555,478
France – 68,603,000
Thailand – 65,932,105
South Africa – 63,015,904
Tanzania – 61,741,120
Italy – 58,966,101
England – 56,489,800
Colombia – 52,695,952
Kenya – 52,428,290
Myanmar – 51,316,756
South Korea – 51,207,874
Sudan – 50,448,963

A few observations:

There are now a lot more islands in the world some of favourites include: North Korea (although would be sort of strange to keep that name), Vatican, Mongolia, Nepal, Scotland, Iberia, Scandinavia and Canada.
England is gone, but Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland remain.
Australia and New Zealand are completely unaffected.
As are the countries in the Caribbean
Asia and the Middle East are just a collection of disparate islands
Europe has become an archipelago
Africa has been split in 3
South America has been split in 2 and both bits are now separated from central America
North America is now just Canada and Greenland.