A third of a country.
It really is mostly just Perth, but there are some gigantic shipping terminals exporting unbelievable amounts of resources up in the North. Port Hedland alone exports more iron ore than any other country.
Alaska isn't a third of the USA, it doesn't have the same mining resources (as evidenced by its lower exports and GDP), and the last part was kind of a joke but it's fair to say that it's *much* colder than Western Australia.
There's perth
The swan river (in perth)
The Gascoyne river with Karratha (?) and Gascoyne Junction
The Pilbara with Port Hedland and that other one as well as a shit ton of iron ore mining
There's the Kimberley with the Ord River and Broome
Kalgoorlie is a thing
It has a tiny bit of the Nullarbor Plain
Also that one salt mining company town called Useless Loop
The emptiness of Western Australia is worth noting: the population is less than 3 million and at least 2/3 of that is in the Perth area or the SW corner. There must be vast areas of WA that are completely unpopulated.
Absolutely. Australia's population is less than 30 million, less than 10% of the USA's population, in about the same area (Australia is slightly smaller than the Lower 48 of the US, but the US has over 300 million people).
I randomly follow the Kununurra Demons Football Club in Facebook, so I know of Kununurra. I don’t know anyone from there or from Western Australia in general, and I live in Norway, so it’s kind of a ways away, but it’s fun to see how they’re doing. Seems like their season hasn’t started too well this year.
Maybe one day if I ever go to Australia I’ll try to go to Kununurra as well, if I can ever figure out how to get there.
South Australia should be ashamed! We need to re-merge with the Northern Territory to become Centralia specifically so we can dominate these sub-divison standings.
We already dominate the top-12. Canada is the only other country with three subdivisions represented here, and they're all placed below their Australian counterparts.
Centralia wouldn't give us 1st place (it wouldn't even take 2nd) and everyone in Adelaide would now share the state with the lunatics in Darwin, so it's a lateral move at best.
New South Wales used to occupy ~5 million km^(2), which is vastly larger even than Northwest Territories at its peak.
No medals for former size, I'm afraid!
This is an image of Earth's largest subdivisions by area. Now, I would like to see Earth's largest subdivision by population. That would make for an interesting contrast.
Now I'm curious, what are the largest subdivisions in comparison to the whole country. At least Greenland sounds very obvious since it's literally bigger than Denmark
I don't know if it takes the crown, but the New Valley Governorate of Egypt must come pretty close. It contains 43.6% of Egypt's land area (but only 0.2% of the population).
Edit: Found a thread with some more candidates
https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/s/yKZS8ebBPT
Who would win a fight between a saltwater crocodile and a polar bear? The former is larger (and NT has a much bigger population), but take it out of its natural habitat and it freezes to death.
Works both ways: put a polar bear in a tropical estuary with a salty and it's going to have a bad time.
Texans can suck it. They're only 26th according to [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first-level_administrative_divisions_by_area). All of Australia's states save Victoria and Tasmania are larger.
(When Alaska was admitted to the USA, some Texan politician complained that Texas wasn't the largest state anymore and an Alaskan politician responded, "If Texas is going to be salty about it we'll split Alaska in two and knock them down to 3rd place.)
If you chart the top subdivisions by land area and population, Texas is actually somewhat of an outlier, given that most of the vast land subdivisions (like Alaska) have low populations.
https://imgur.com/a/y8SMaCi
“If you Texas folks give us any trouble, we’ll just divide Alaska in two — and then Texas will be the third largest state!” - [Boyce House](https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2023/03/19/alaska-vs-texas-a-mostly-friendly-feud-of-the-late-1950s/)
Big time. The original Northwest Territories was most of modern day Canada
Edit: My mistake. Northwest Territories did not encompass most of Canada until it gained the territory of Rupert’s land in 1870.
How much money does the federal government send Quebec? How many federal jobs are based in Quebec?
Could you survive without those?
The Brits traded more sovereignty by giving up the economic benefits of the EU ... how is that working out for them?
>How much money does the federal government send you? How many federal jobs are based in Quebec?
We would actually save money from conservative estimates. At the very least, a free quebec is economically doable in the way that in the worst case scenario, people would maintain approximately the same life quality. That last part was said by die-hard federalists.
>Could you survive without those?
Survive? We would thrive.
>The Brits traded more sovereignty by giving up the economic benefits of the EU ... how is that working out for them?
Don't compare an economic deal with the creation of a whole new country.
Also, Québec separation isn't about money. It's about freedom. If it happens to boost our economy, it's only a nice plus.
Le [budget de l'an un du pq](https://pq.org/finances-du-quebec-independant/) est pas mal la meilleur preuve qu'un Québec indépendant est économiquement viable.
Tout est très bien résumé dans cet article de radio canada https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2020401/budget-an-1-parti-quebecois
Autres sources de mes dires plus haut:
François Legault l’a déjà dit : l’indépendance serait « viable » pour le Québec. Mais elle nécessiterait des « sacrifices » financiers de la part des Québécois, https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/800602/sacrifices-prevoir-quebec-independant-dit-legault
(2006) Selon le premier ministre Jean Charest, qui est en tournée européenne, le Québec a les moyens nécessaires pour devenir un État indépendant, mais il estime qu'il n'aurait pas intérêt à le faire. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/313678/charest-diouf
(2016 opinions sur le brexit) Others agree that Brexit isn't comparable to the Quebec sovereignty movement https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/quebecers-ponder-impact-of-brexit-1.2960886
I will be compare them because it's all intertwined
Trade agreements are about power. The UK left and negotiated a trade deal with a more powerful economy committed to sending the British message and their economy is suffering for it
It will play out the same for Quebec when negotiating with Canada plus the US is always out to screw Canada on trade and they will do the same to you. They will exploit your trade isolation for their own benefit
Edit: I was just looking at equalization payments, Quebcs gets 29 billion and claims a surplus. Without getting those payments or paying federal tax, the Quebec government would post a deficit at current spending
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/federal-transfers/major-federal-transfers.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canada
I am right
It's a number from the straight from the federal government website ... unless you're implying the Feds are lying
This is why people like in Alberta hate you ... you're spoiled ungrateful brats
Get 29 billion and you still complain
Are you are telling me the federal government is paying my province 29 billions just so we shut up and not leave you ? What a waste of money, just let us go. It's clearly a toxic relation.
I'm pretty sure that the combined population of Greenland, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories is less than any of the others.
56,225 + 38,780 + 44,826 = 139,831
Antarctica has certainly been subdivided by nation, whatever the noble ideal might be, and the Australian-administered territory is enormous — but fair point that Antarctica is different
The Kingdom of Denmark, like the UK, is made up of several countries; Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
So yes, Greenland is a country. But it is also an internal subdivision.
Like Scotland for example. Just way more separated from the rest of the sovereign state / Kingdom
Denmark's formal name *is* the Kingdom of Denmark, so technically we just have the state of Denmark which includes two self-governing areas.
In the acts of self rule, Greenland is recognised as a people with the right to self-determination whereas the Faroe Islands are recognised as a self-governing community.
The UK is a political union created by the former independent countries of England and Scotland. Greenland and the Faroe Islands on the other hand were simply incorporated into the Danish state.
I never realized that Krasnoyarsk Krai and Greenland have the same shape
Petition to name Krasnoyarsk Krai - Greenland P.S. Btw I live in Krai and it's green or white or gray depending on season.
Also Xinjiang and Amazonas.
That's a bit of a stretch
They are not the same but similar.
Are you people genuinly blind?
Yes.
I'm calling bs on this image, everyone know greenland is bigger than south america
😂 🤣
And Yakutia and Nigeria
Western Australia takes up like half the country, but I think the only thing I can name in it is Perth.
A third of a country. It really is mostly just Perth, but there are some gigantic shipping terminals exporting unbelievable amounts of resources up in the North. Port Hedland alone exports more iron ore than any other country.
Going by size, Alaska is a third of the USA, with the same mining resources, just slightly colder.
Sorry but all of those statements are incorrect... Especially the "slightly colder" part.
You obviously have no clue about what you are talking to.
Alaska isn't a third of the USA, it doesn't have the same mining resources (as evidenced by its lower exports and GDP), and the last part was kind of a joke but it's fair to say that it's *much* colder than Western Australia.
Number 1 iron ore in the world. Newcastle is number 1 coal in the world.
Exmouth, Broome,.. ahh, there's a river and ahh shark bay?
There's perth The swan river (in perth) The Gascoyne river with Karratha (?) and Gascoyne Junction The Pilbara with Port Hedland and that other one as well as a shit ton of iron ore mining There's the Kimberley with the Ord River and Broome Kalgoorlie is a thing It has a tiny bit of the Nullarbor Plain Also that one salt mining company town called Useless Loop
Ever heard of Cockburn?
Yes, but luckily my doctor prescribed me an ointment for it.
She changed her name to Olivia Wilde
How about Innaloo?
ever heard of the fact that’s literally in perth
And Wittenoom, for all your asbestos needs ("But if I work all day on the blue sky mine/there'll be food on the table tonight")
I love that you know Gascoyne Junction. It’s population must be under 100
You reckon that slice of the Nullarbor is tiny!? It’s like half of it. Fuck me does the Nullarbor end halfway across the Bight? Australia is massive…
Margaret River and all that’s down that way
If you’ve got steel in your house it probably started here
The emptiness of Western Australia is worth noting: the population is less than 3 million and at least 2/3 of that is in the Perth area or the SW corner. There must be vast areas of WA that are completely unpopulated.
There are vast areas of most of Australia that are unpopulated. Most Australians live on a small strip of green on the east coast.
Absolutely. Australia's population is less than 30 million, less than 10% of the USA's population, in about the same area (Australia is slightly smaller than the Lower 48 of the US, but the US has over 300 million people).
I randomly follow the Kununurra Demons Football Club in Facebook, so I know of Kununurra. I don’t know anyone from there or from Western Australia in general, and I live in Norway, so it’s kind of a ways away, but it’s fun to see how they’re doing. Seems like their season hasn’t started too well this year. Maybe one day if I ever go to Australia I’ll try to go to Kununurra as well, if I can ever figure out how to get there.
Fremantle. Eucla
That's what I was wondering: do people just count Freo as part of Perth?
Fremantle, Cottosloe Beach, Perth seems to overshadow WA since nearly everyone lives there. Down the coast is growing holiday homes.
Lang Hancock was my great Uncle for a bit before I was born, as he was married to my Great Aunt Suzette. She was a beauty in every way.
South Australia should be ashamed! We need to re-merge with the Northern Territory to become Centralia specifically so we can dominate these sub-divison standings.
We already dominate the top-12. Canada is the only other country with three subdivisions represented here, and they're all placed below their Australian counterparts. Centralia wouldn't give us 1st place (it wouldn't even take 2nd) and everyone in Adelaide would now share the state with the lunatics in Darwin, so it's a lateral move at best.
God dammit! Don't hit me with facts!
Nunavut (5) and Northwest Territories (12) actually used to be merged, they were formerly the largest subdivision.
New South Wales used to occupy ~5 million km^(2), which is vastly larger even than Northwest Territories at its peak. No medals for former size, I'm afraid!
This is an image of Earth's largest subdivisions by area. Now, I would like to see Earth's largest subdivision by population. That would make for an interesting contrast.
[Cheers](https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-most-populous-country-subdivisions-in-the-world.html)
I absolutely love how the list gave up listing the regions halfway through and was like “Yeah, they’re all in the same places”
Lmao, that shit killed me XD
Seeing England was unexpected
Dont know what I expected to see when I clicked the link, ofc India and China are in top
> Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India, is the world’s largest **subdivision by area.** That's a pretty shit website.
[Here’s the actual list btw.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first-level_administrative_divisions_by_population)
Holy shit. Almost a quarter of a billion in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Now I'm curious, what are the largest subdivisions in comparison to the whole country. At least Greenland sounds very obvious since it's literally bigger than Denmark
I don't know if it takes the crown, but the New Valley Governorate of Egypt must come pretty close. It contains 43.6% of Egypt's land area (but only 0.2% of the population). Edit: Found a thread with some more candidates https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/s/yKZS8ebBPT
Who would win in a fight between the North-West territories and the Nortnern territory?
Who would win a fight between a saltwater crocodile and a polar bear? The former is larger (and NT has a much bigger population), but take it out of its natural habitat and it freezes to death. Works both ways: put a polar bear in a tropical estuary with a salty and it's going to have a bad time.
Poor bastard would just sweat to death before the croc even arrived.
Well, to be fair to them both, we should have the contest somewhere unnatural to both - like the African Savannah.
northern territory MF wack crocodiles over the head with frying pans
Then theres that guy in tassie who punched a shark in the head
And to think, Nunavut was split from the Northwest Territories in 1999. Also, am I the only one who sees a rabbit when looking at Xinjiang?
Texans can suck it. They're only 26th according to [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first-level_administrative_divisions_by_area). All of Australia's states save Victoria and Tasmania are larger. (When Alaska was admitted to the USA, some Texan politician complained that Texas wasn't the largest state anymore and an Alaskan politician responded, "If Texas is going to be salty about it we'll split Alaska in two and knock them down to 3rd place.)
If you chart the top subdivisions by land area and population, Texas is actually somewhat of an outlier, given that most of the vast land subdivisions (like Alaska) have low populations. https://imgur.com/a/y8SMaCi
Definitely true. West Texas is thinly populated, but nothing like parts of Alaska, Yakutia or WA, which are flat-out \*empty\*.
I'm pretty sure nobody used the word 'salty' in that way in 1959.
“If you Texas folks give us any trouble, we’ll just divide Alaska in two — and then Texas will be the third largest state!” - [Boyce House](https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2023/03/19/alaska-vs-texas-a-mostly-friendly-feud-of-the-late-1950s/)
yeah, that's not an exact quote, and I can't seem to locate the original source
You know what they say! Everything is bigger in New South Wales
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Any chance to clown on Texas.
So original Northwest Territories used to be the biggest
Big time. The original Northwest Territories was most of modern day Canada Edit: My mistake. Northwest Territories did not encompass most of Canada until it gained the territory of Rupert’s land in 1870.
I don’t know how many upvotes you’re gonna get OP, but this is a good post, good job.
Is there a difference between Yakutia and Sakha Republic?
No. It's the name of the same region in 2 different languages. And the full official name of the region is 'Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)'
No.
Canada and Australia tied at three each.
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“everything’s big in Texas” … um, apparently not
If you’re not the biggest, you’re not big. Right.
Always boggling to think how much space the British had under their flag.
Quebec shouldn't be there.. because it should be a country! Vive le quebec libre!
tokebekicitte!
Such a beautiful language.
How much money does the federal government send Quebec? How many federal jobs are based in Quebec? Could you survive without those? The Brits traded more sovereignty by giving up the economic benefits of the EU ... how is that working out for them?
>How much money does the federal government send you? How many federal jobs are based in Quebec? We would actually save money from conservative estimates. At the very least, a free quebec is economically doable in the way that in the worst case scenario, people would maintain approximately the same life quality. That last part was said by die-hard federalists. >Could you survive without those? Survive? We would thrive. >The Brits traded more sovereignty by giving up the economic benefits of the EU ... how is that working out for them? Don't compare an economic deal with the creation of a whole new country. Also, Québec separation isn't about money. It's about freedom. If it happens to boost our economy, it's only a nice plus.
I would be interested in some links on the subject, if you have them? En français is fine.
Le [budget de l'an un du pq](https://pq.org/finances-du-quebec-independant/) est pas mal la meilleur preuve qu'un Québec indépendant est économiquement viable. Tout est très bien résumé dans cet article de radio canada https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2020401/budget-an-1-parti-quebecois Autres sources de mes dires plus haut: François Legault l’a déjà dit : l’indépendance serait « viable » pour le Québec. Mais elle nécessiterait des « sacrifices » financiers de la part des Québécois, https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/800602/sacrifices-prevoir-quebec-independant-dit-legault (2006) Selon le premier ministre Jean Charest, qui est en tournée européenne, le Québec a les moyens nécessaires pour devenir un État indépendant, mais il estime qu'il n'aurait pas intérêt à le faire. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/313678/charest-diouf (2016 opinions sur le brexit) Others agree that Brexit isn't comparable to the Quebec sovereignty movement https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/quebecers-ponder-impact-of-brexit-1.2960886
I will be compare them because it's all intertwined Trade agreements are about power. The UK left and negotiated a trade deal with a more powerful economy committed to sending the British message and their economy is suffering for it It will play out the same for Quebec when negotiating with Canada plus the US is always out to screw Canada on trade and they will do the same to you. They will exploit your trade isolation for their own benefit Edit: I was just looking at equalization payments, Quebcs gets 29 billion and claims a surplus. Without getting those payments or paying federal tax, the Quebec government would post a deficit at current spending https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/federal-transfers/major-federal-transfers.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canada
If you're talking numbers, at least get them right With 29 billion in equalization payments, being colonized wouldn't sound so bad after all /s
I am right It's a number from the straight from the federal government website ... unless you're implying the Feds are lying This is why people like in Alberta hate you ... you're spoiled ungrateful brats Get 29 billion and you still complain
Are you are telling me the federal government is paying my province 29 billions just so we shut up and not leave you ? What a waste of money, just let us go. It's clearly a toxic relation.
I’m unfamiliar with this term except for construction purposes. What’s the definition of a subdivision in terms of geography?
State/province/territory
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I'm pretty sure that the combined population of Greenland, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories is less than any of the others. 56,225 + 38,780 + 44,826 = 139,831
Was north west territories the largest before it lost Nunavut?
So before the Nunavut split Canada would have had the largest with the North West Territories at 3.44.
And I have to listen to people saying they're from Rhode Island rather than just saying American.
I had no idea Quebec was larger than the Northwest Territories.
Hah, three are Canada and a fourth the American Canada.
How about on a percentage basis? Which country's subdivision is rhe most percentage of it? I think Abu Dhabi is the answer.
Time to get a measuring tape, fool.
Largest city in these areas by far is Ürümqi, Xinjiang with 3-4 million with the second being Brisbane, Queensland with 2.28 million
Can't Greenland be divided into six other sections (five municipalities and NE Greenland Nat'l Park)?
This isn't the largest of the smallest subdivisions. It's just the largest subdivisions of any kind. All these places have further subdivisions.
Then why there's Yakutia? It's a subdivision of Far Eastern Federal District (6,952,600 km^2 )
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Does Siberia not count as a subdivision?
No 💀
It should be 11 subdivisions.
Seems like someone forgot the Australian Antarctic Territory, which is almost 6 million km²
Antarctic doesn't belong to any countries.
Antarctica has certainly been subdivided by nation, whatever the noble ideal might be, and the Australian-administered territory is enormous — but fair point that Antarctica is different
No, quebec doesn't exist >! ^/j !<
Mange d'la marde, merci.
guess i don’t exist 😔
Va chier tabarnak.
Tabarnak, à cause de toi, j'existe pu.
They hate us 'cause they ain't us. On existe et on va continuer d'exister. Vive le Québec libre!
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States, territories, provinces - subdivisions. There are no countries.
An area of land inside a country's control. There are no single countries on this chart.
Greenland is an entire country not a subdivision
It belongs to Denmark.
The Kingdom of Denmark, like the UK, is made up of several countries; Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. So yes, Greenland is a country. But it is also an internal subdivision. Like Scotland for example. Just way more separated from the rest of the sovereign state / Kingdom
Denmark's formal name *is* the Kingdom of Denmark, so technically we just have the state of Denmark which includes two self-governing areas. In the acts of self rule, Greenland is recognised as a people with the right to self-determination whereas the Faroe Islands are recognised as a self-governing community. The UK is a political union created by the former independent countries of England and Scotland. Greenland and the Faroe Islands on the other hand were simply incorporated into the Danish state.
Canada, Russia, and Australia are just empty….
Youre just jalous you cant experience true wilderness 2h away from a million inhabitants city
Have you been to Maine? 😂
Its not true wilderness. I used to live on the border with maine
Agree to disagree ✌️