I know they are relatively large countries that have been inhabited for a very long time, but so is Europe if taken as a whole. Yet Europe only has about half as many people as just one of these two countries. What historical factors lead to their massive populations?
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Arable land that is good for agriculture. India have 1.7 million square kilometer, US have 1.6, Russia have 1.2, China have 1.1, brazil have 0.7, Australia have 0.47, Canada have 0.46, Argentina have 0.38. As you can see the US, Brazil, Australia, Canada and Argentina are all new world territory that didn’t have much people since they were not connected to the Old world for a long time. Russia is a rather cold country and didn’t developped until the middle ages so that leave us with India and China only. Just for comparaison, Western/Central Europe have around 0.6 millions square kilometer of arable land. So it’s near the top, but still not as much as China or India.
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