NATIONS SMALLER THAN A DISTRICT IN TELANGANA

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The world’s 6.5 billion people live in 190-odd countries.

This means the average nation has about 30-35 million people. If we exclude large entities like China, India, the European Union, the United States, Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia, etc, the average nation’s population falls to 15 million.


Many major countries, including Korea, Iran, the Netherlands and South Africa, have 15-75 million people. Most others have 4 - 10 million people –
Scandinavia and much of Africa. Their sub-units are much smaller.



SOME NATIONS SMALLER THAN A DISTRICT IN TELANGANA

So there’s nothing odd about a 31-million-strong Telangana–with an area of 11,840 sq km, which exceeds the size of 100 of the world’s countries.