Just updated. We made a lil’ error. See comments. Thanks for all your support!
Beijing is approximately 1% of China's Population
It’s true. Beijing’s urban area population relative to the country’s total is very small. The capital had an urban area population of 12.4 million in 2007, 0.94% of the country’s 1.32 billion. Dalian, a sea-port city in northeast China is at the right side of Beijing in the graph, with a population of 3.2 million. And the smallest dot is Qiqihar, far deeply located in the northeast part, with 1 million people.
Before you go ahead saying that Beijing has 17M or even 22M inhabitants we just want to note that we have used statistics from 2007 and it is ONLY the Urban Area Population which means “a continuously built up landmass of urban development”, or “the lighted area that can be observed from an airplane at night”. We believe that is a fair measure and it relates to the statistics of our overall infographic – The Long Tail – of 60 Chinese cities above 1M citizen
Close-up of the Beijing vs. China infographic.
Definition of Urban Area Population: “the lighted area that can be observed from an airplane at night”
Source: Demographia.com
Coming Next: 3rd & last post in our population series; Chinese and Western cities mapped and mixed
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Beijing vs. China. Beijing = approximately 1% of China’s total population Check out our new infographics http://ow.ly/1PoJb
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Check new infographic RT @chinfographics: Beijing vs. China. Beijing = approximately 1% of China’s total population http://ow.ly/1PoJb
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thanks for RTs. Check out Beijing vs China http://ow.ly/1PoJb @UKTI_JGordon @GE_Anderson @mark_e_evans @yinh @zeniscalm @crumbsey
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. @gmwils thanks for RT – be sure to check out our new post RT @chinfographics: Beijing vs. China. http://ow.ly/1PoJb
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Awesome. “Beijing vs. China.” (@chinfographics infographic) http://twurl.nl/u8245c I want the t-shirt!
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Great visualization on Beijing vs. China’s population on @chinfographics http://bit.ly/b7ulRL
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Thanks Jonah RT @jonah_kessel: Great visualization on Beijing vs. China’s population on @chinfographics http://bit.ly/b7ulRL
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Peking är en stor stad men väldigt liten i förhållande till Kinas totala folkmängd http://ow.ly/1PoJb @chinfographics #Kina #infografik
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Beijing vs. China – by Chinfographics http://bit.ly/c5BJSJ #s low 4 beijing, given development since 07 of “lighted areas” etc
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Beijing vs. China – by Chinfographics http://bit.ly/c5BJSJ #s low 4 beijing, given development since 07 of “lighted areas” etc
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Mis-visualizing China
How can that possibly be 1%? Are you using 1% of radius instead of 1% of area? That would be an extreme misrepresentation showing Beijing as only 0.01% of China by population.
P.S. It’ll be even more dramatic if you use spheres if that’s the name of the game
You are of course right. Circle was made with Illustrator adding 100% when changing shape. Bad double-check. Anyone can see it. we’ll go back to our own math, change and improve. Thanks for commenting
Appreciate your work, the 60 cities have a similar problem, but a lot less obvious. I don’t mind though since it makes my home city look bigger and who cares about Qiqihar =)
niubi: Beijing vs. China – by Chinfographics http://bit.ly/c5BJSJ #s low 4 beijing, given development since 07 of … http://bit.ly/bxG4h5
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As Chris, Nexusil and some others have pointed out we relied heavily on Illustrator % scaling of a Shape and not our own math skills. Post is now updated with the correct representation of shapes. We’ll improve!
北京怎么这么小啊？很多人要疯了！还是看看图片更直观。http://ow.ly/1PoJb #Bejing #Population @chinfographics
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Nice. I really do like your visualisations. And your “used statistics from 2007 and it is ONLY the Urban Area Population” has just answered my last question.
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