Fünf Gebiete Brasiliens mit der gleichen Bevölkerung

As a Brazilian, this kind of map make people think that Brazil is basically Chile, everyone lives within 100km of the coast and continental parts are empty. But that’s not true at all, the yellow area still has tens of millions of people and several major cities with millions of inhabitants as well, and if you ignore the Amazon rainforest, it isn’t even that empty (I’d argue that some parts of it have much larger density than most states in the Upper Midwest). Inner Brazil isn’t low populated, it’s just not as dense as the coast and since the Amazon rainforest is 50% of Brazil’s territory (and most of it is pretty far from the coast) it makes people think that Brazil is completely empty, which isn’t true at all

This is a deliberately distorted map. You could equally divide Brazil with around 75% of the population in the lower half, São Paulo & Rio de Janeiro States have 60 million (30+%) between them! In fact, this map is drawn with São Paulo (city) in the yellow line just off the coast as it would be the only way to make it work.

When is the forest gone?

Was their control of the amazon contested because of their low population or no one bothered?

This is the work of Carl Schmertmann. I included a link to his GitHub in the OP but you can also find him here: https://bsky.app/profile/cschmert.bsky.social/post/3l6d55nncfp2b

We’re so fucked