u/minecraftian48

full version here! anita.garden/assets/maps/asia1meng.png

and full version with local label text anita.garden/assets/maps/asia1mloc.png

i am working on doing the entirety of asia, but this is the progress i have so far.

each region contains a million people, to within 5% of the last census or government published estimate. i drew the lines trying to respect urban/rural divide, linguistic boundaries, existing borders, mountain ranges, and rivers.

the colors don't strictly mean anything, but within a general area the darker regions are usually denser.

i used asesprite to draw. i used citypopulation.de for convenient access to subdivision census data. i used geopandas to draw the base reference map of coastlines and cities. reference coastline data is from global surface water explorer. reference subdivision shapefiles are from humanitarian data exchange.

feedback is welcomed!

please check out my other maps at anita.garden/projects! i have done 1 million maps of europe and north and south america.