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This animated map shows the population change in Germany (current boundaries) over the last 150 years. Cities display wider than they really are. Every district is one flat block of data, so the round hills are just smoothing. Height is people per area, so a mountain's volume is the... show more
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Hier sieht man, wie bedeutend Chemnitz und das Erzgebirge einst waren.

I create the French version if anyone is interested :

Side view is even better

North Rhine-Westphalia alone has a larger population and a higher GDP than all the eastern German federal states put together, even including Berlin. Yet people pretend that Germany is broadly divided into two halves, with the West taking advantage of and exploiting the East.

Isn’t there a lot of territory missing? It says 1871 but looks confined to modern rump state

1871..mate.. Germany was bigger then!

It literally says that it shows modern borders. With a map like this you need to make decisions.

I see your point, but look at Saxony and Brandenburg - they weren't border-regions then, but Mitteldeutscland(sic). Maybe the maker should have dotted-line the historical border or something.

This is brilliant!

Danke, super!

Map is incomplete.

60 million in 1940!

For Hanover they obviously used the modern (2001) borders of the 'Region Hanover' which encompasses both the town and its district. You can recognise the shape as early as 1900. That's why it appears flat, in contrast to the neighboring Brunswick and Hildesheim peaks.

Why does it still show significant differences when comparing 2024 with... 2024?

...what's going on around #Dortmund ??! ...can't just be #DieSchwarzgelben 🤔🤨
