Thinks 'why don't I go on Jetpunk?' Goes on Jetpunk. Finds the quiz. Looks at the Indonesian flag. 'hm....' he thinks. 'That's the flag of Monaco. But doesn't Monaco have about 35,000 people? Well, I'll try it anyway.' Tries Monaco. It doesn't work. Thinks it might be Poland. Types it out many different ways.
Poeland.
Polannd.
Polland. (Like Holland)
Eventually gives up and walks away, not realizing it's the Indonesian flag. What a fail! Typical me. You should see some of my quizzes. They have so many spelling mistakes. I have had about ten separate people in the comments saying I spelt something incorrectly. Check them out and write a patronizing comment, you have my invitation.
Edit: It has returned! Don't know what happened here, probably when Egypt was added, something must have happened and India accidentally got taken off! No worries, India is back on this list as a proud member of the 100 million club!
We have dropped Worldometers. They are no longer accurate because they haven't updated their site for the 2022 edition of World Population Prospects. Worldometers also has errors on their site which haven't been fixed despite me emailing them several times.
We have developed our own replacement which you can find here.
Google "drc population" and it says 95.89 million, from 2021.
Just underneath, Worldometer announces, rather confidently, that it's "96,923,946 as of Saturday, March 18, 2023"
It's an especially difficult country to measure accurately, as you mention. Many border regions will have margins or error in the tens or even hundreds of thousands.
We are using the UN's 2022 edition of World Population Prospects. Vietnam is exceedingly close and will be added very soon but isn't quite there yet (according to this quiz's source). Next one is due in July so it might be added then.
@Xenobiologista Poland's flag is basically Monaco's but upside-down
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Thinks 'why don't I go on Jetpunk?' Goes on Jetpunk. Finds the quiz. Looks at the Indonesian flag. 'hm....' he thinks. 'That's the flag of Monaco. But doesn't Monaco have about 35,000 people? Well, I'll try it anyway.' Tries Monaco. It doesn't work. Thinks it might be Poland. Types it out many different ways.
Poeland.
Polannd.
Polland. (Like Holland)
Eventually gives up and walks away, not realizing it's the Indonesian flag. What a fail! Typical me. You should see some of my quizzes. They have so many spelling mistakes. I have had about ten separate people in the comments saying I spelt something incorrectly. Check them out and write a patronizing comment, you have my invitation.
The red of Monaco's flag is less vibrant than the red on Indonesia's, and Poland is basically upside-down Monaco :)
Beat that.
Dear Ethiopia, you are on the world stage. It looks like you had an internet vote on your flag and got trolled mercilessly.
We have developed our own replacement which you can find here.
Keep in mind that data for countries like DRC will always be rough estimates.
Just underneath, Worldometer announces, rather confidently, that it's "96,923,946 as of Saturday, March 18, 2023"
It's an especially difficult country to measure accurately, as you mention. Many border regions will have margins or error in the tens or even hundreds of thousands.