Cool world map shows every country's scale according to its population

Way to put the world into perspective. One Reddit user took the time to redesign the world map to represent each country's size according to its population. Take a look.

Reddit user TeaDranks created the map using data from the most current foreign and domestic censuses made available, which range between 2011 and 2015. Each small square within the map represents 500,000 people.

Counting for the population density, it's amazing to see how drastically the map changes. China and India become so enormous in scale that they consume most of the land area, while Russia and Canada shrink to microscopic proportion. And Greenland has disappeared!

Some countries, however, had populations too small to even represent a single square of the map. The population of those 29 countries with less than 250,000 people make up only a tiny, nine square box on the map:

Abkhazia

Samoa

Saint Lucia

Curacao

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Kiribati

Grenada

Tonga

Aruba

Federated States of Micronesia

Seychelles

Antigua and Barbuda

Andorra

Dominica

Greenland

Marshall Islands

Saint Kitts and Nevis

South Ossetia

Sint Maarten

Liechtenstein

Monaco

San Marino

Palau

Tuvalu

Nauru

Niue

Vatican City