Looks like it follows the trans-Siberian as you go eastward.
I’d love to explore the empty middle with a 4×4.
I read somewhere a few months ago that the greatest winner in a world of global warming would be Russia. All the land that’s currently uninhabited would become much more temperate and allow for more farmland and space for people.
If there are ever “climate” refugees, Russia could take them in and let them work that land.
I hd no idea people lived on those little islands to the North East of Japan..
I am really interested in Siberia. Sometimes, I spy on it using Google Earth. I haven’t yet found anything unxpected.
bUt RuSsIa Is An AsIaN cOuNtRy
For reference the ural mountains which separate Europe and asia run just west of that massively deep bay on the north.
Wow Norilsk is really isolated. I wonder what it must be like to live somewhere like that
Cool, i have wondered before where the russian population actually lives!
Imagine having more than 50% undeveloped land in your country and yet looking for more Lebensraum from your neighbours and being asshole towards them.
It’s a settlement map with each dot representing a settlement. The size of the dot reflects the population numbers.
Overall very cool, but strictly speaking it’s not a population density map
This is why “russia is too big to be conquered” is pretty nonsense nowadays. Pretty much all vital parts of russia as a nation arent that far away from its western border (with respect to modern armies).
This also is important to understand russian geostrategy re. Nato deployments at its western border and its desire for buffer zones.
Doesnt ofc justify putins warmongering and unlawful invasion and anexation of parts of ukraine one bit.
is there a different ethnic group populating east russia, than the west?
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i would be surprised if it was primarily slavic all the waythrough
This is a map where Mercator really sucks.
The north is way smaller than the south of Russia.
Of course the climate is worse in the north, but it’s not some vast outstretched emptiness.
(ok, it is. But not *that* vast)
I bet some people didn’t know that Russia has the vast majority of its population living in its “metropolitan” European part instead of its Asian colonies.
But they still want more land 🙄
It’s similar to Canada in that people live as south as possible and as close to other big countries as possible, with the rest being pretty empty.
Didn’t know Russians were that dense
^/s
Russia is more populated than I thought, tbh.
Our population spread is similar to Canada with Northern part being populated sparsely and the vast majority settling in the South.
Very cool map, thank you for uploading OP
Fair enough, I ain’t gonna live anywhere near the top. How cold would that be!
Oh man. Imagine living in that dark space with no other humans for miles and miles in all sides. Crazy.
Do people in Siberia realise the Moscow government fucks them over by taking all their mineral wealth and not building any infrastructure?
Könisberg is still very populated
This must be very relative tho. Even Western Russia is far less densely inhabited than most European countries
Murmansk, est. 1916, 300.000 pop, largest city above the polar circle.
“There be ice dragons!” — Russian map, probably.
You can see the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Wow
They can’t take care of they’re own lande and make war to get other lands. Disgusting!!!
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Wow! What’s the source?
Looks like it follows the trans-Siberian as you go eastward.
I’d love to explore the empty middle with a 4×4.
I read somewhere a few months ago that the greatest winner in a world of global warming would be Russia. All the land that’s currently uninhabited would become much more temperate and allow for more farmland and space for people.
If there are ever “climate” refugees, Russia could take them in and let them work that land.
Edit: I found the article I’m referring to: [Link](https://www.propublica.org/article/the-big-thaw-how-russia-could-dominate-a-warming-world?token=9ir60hf1xhnzzvkalbsoer3-yz64weqf)
I hd no idea people lived on those little islands to the North East of Japan..
I am really interested in Siberia. Sometimes, I spy on it using Google Earth. I haven’t yet found anything unxpected.
bUt RuSsIa Is An AsIaN cOuNtRy
For reference the ural mountains which separate Europe and asia run just west of that massively deep bay on the north.
Wow Norilsk is really isolated. I wonder what it must be like to live somewhere like that
Cool, i have wondered before where the russian population actually lives!
Imagine having more than 50% undeveloped land in your country and yet looking for more Lebensraum from your neighbours and being asshole towards them.
It’s a settlement map with each dot representing a settlement. The size of the dot reflects the population numbers.
Overall very cool, but strictly speaking it’s not a population density map
This is why “russia is too big to be conquered” is pretty nonsense nowadays. Pretty much all vital parts of russia as a nation arent that far away from its western border (with respect to modern armies).
This also is important to understand russian geostrategy re. Nato deployments at its western border and its desire for buffer zones.
Doesnt ofc justify putins warmongering and unlawful invasion and anexation of parts of ukraine one bit.
is there a different ethnic group populating east russia, than the west?
​
i would be surprised if it was primarily slavic all the waythrough
This is a map where Mercator really sucks.
The north is way smaller than the south of Russia.
Of course the climate is worse in the north, but it’s not some vast outstretched emptiness.
(ok, it is. But not *that* vast)
I bet some people didn’t know that Russia has the vast majority of its population living in its “metropolitan” European part instead of its Asian colonies.
But they still want more land 🙄
It’s similar to Canada in that people live as south as possible and as close to other big countries as possible, with the rest being pretty empty.
Didn’t know Russians were that dense
^/s
Russia is more populated than I thought, tbh.
Our population spread is similar to Canada with Northern part being populated sparsely and the vast majority settling in the South.
Very cool map, thank you for uploading OP
Fair enough, I ain’t gonna live anywhere near the top. How cold would that be!
Oh man. Imagine living in that dark space with no other humans for miles and miles in all sides. Crazy.
Do people in Siberia realise the Moscow government fucks them over by taking all their mineral wealth and not building any infrastructure?
Könisberg is still very populated
This must be very relative tho. Even Western Russia is far less densely inhabited than most European countries
Murmansk, est. 1916, 300.000 pop, largest city above the polar circle.
“There be ice dragons!” — Russian map, probably.
You can see the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Wow
They can’t take care of they’re own lande and make war to get other lands. Disgusting!!!
Such a waste of space.