Canada population: 41.4 million
California population: 39.4 million
Greater Tokyo Area: 37.4 million
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Almost similar GDP as well
Canada GDP (2026): $2.51 Trillion USD
California GDP (2025): $4.25 Trillion USD
Greater Tokyo Area (2022): $1.82 Trillion USD
Wide Spread but still all in the low Trillions
California is inflated by Silicon Valley stuff. Maybe left-over Hollywood prestige, as well.
Japan isn't known for it's awesome economy, but it's surprising world city Tokyo is still doing worse than all of Canada including the backwaters.
California also offers an agricultural powerhouse of productivity, oceanfront tourism, and ongoing techbro circle jerks.
Oh right, a lot of produce that makes it up here is from California, although we've noticeably weaned off of it over the course of the trade war.
I did mention the techbros. If the bubble pops and geopolitics breaks the monopolies it end up a lot closer to Canada.
Doing Worse is subjective.
Higher GDP ≠ Doing Better.
The US has some of the highest GDP per capita on earth but that doesn’t mean it (or it’s economy, if you don’t define economy just as stock market go brrr) is doing well.
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I wonder if you take out fossil fuel and logging out of Canada’s GDP if it still would be higher than Tokyo’s. Not much logging and oil drilling going on in Tokyo I reckon.
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Biggest question.
Who wins in a street fight.
I wanna give it to the Canadians on sheer variety but I think California might win that one.
ninjas?
Canadian ninjas or Californian ninjas?
Surf Ninjas!
1000% California. So Cal is mostly LA and NorCal is a bunch of granola outdoor survival types.
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80% of þe population of Canada lives South of Minneapolis, MN., USA.
My wife's family is from northern Minnesota. When we visit my in-laws we like to joke that they're two states north of Canada.
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there are too many people in Tokyo. like come on guys. there are other cities.
The density makes life very convenient though
I doubt you've been or lived here if you think it's very dense for a large city. Frankly its extremely spread out. Most buildings are quite short or single family homes. Compared to the skyscrapers of Chinese cities, its a lot closer to American suburbs.
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So Tokyo has 1 moose, California has 100 moose, and Canada is overrun by moose. Got it!
Only moose I ever saw in California palled around with a squirrel and constantly had beef with a Russian couple when visiting Universal Studios.
I also used to live in a gang neighborhood. Tough times. :(
Yes, but also Mercator projection.
Does that mean Canada is looking for immigrants? A lot of us can help bring that number up.
The big map is misleading. The vast majority of us live within 100 miles of the US border.
Ed, it's a startling revelation.
Canada, getting ready to invade, has amassed 90% of its population along its border with the United States.
The longest unprotected border in the world, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to that other one.
That depends on whom you ask. 🤷 And how eager are you to live in a remote community?
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Canada is always looking for immigrants, weather it likes to or not, it needs them
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More than pretty much anywhere else, yes. It still manages to be heavily selective, though, mostly for highly educated/skilled workers and their families.
But also, yes, the population is heavily in the south. If you showed just the non-remote part, it'd be horizontal Chile.
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You made Saddam too small.
The more you think about it, the more insane it is, like... wow
And people wonder why Japan's population is shrinking. (Wait, is it shrinking or did it stop growing?) Disinterest in breeding may be an innate response to overpopulation. In any case, Tokyo's population is fucking crazy and decreasing the number of people voluntarily and peacefully is a GOOD thing.
COL in Japan in general is about as unhealthy as it is in California.
people are working themselves to death just to scrape by.
if governments want population growth, they have to siphon wealth away from their corporate overlords and nurture the working class.
Japan's population decline isn't really about cost of living so much as it is about poor quality of life/a stiflingly conservative culture. Terrible work/life balance, women still largely being expected to quit work when they have kids (and it being assumed that women will have kids, leading to discrimination in the workplace and limited career promotion opportunities), men still largely being expected the salarymen, etc.
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I doubt the fertility rate is much better in the scenic, middle-of-nowhere areas. People just don't want kids, and now there's the option to have sex without them.
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Tokyo has more people than LA? That’s surprising.
The Greater Tokyo area has a population of 38.1mil, California has a population of 39.3mil.
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tokyo firmly believes in stacking
Makes you wonder why housing prices in Canada are so ridiculously high then when they have so much free land space.
Construction is the bottleneck.
On why construction is the bottleneck, you'll hear several theories, but just physically having land isn't the problem.
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