Canada population: 41.4 million
California population: 39.4 million
Greater Tokyo Area: 37.4 million
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Almost similar GDP as well
Canada GDP (2026): $2.51 Trillion USD
California GDP (2025): $4.25 Trillion USD
Greater Tokyo Area (2022): $1.82 Trillion USD
Wide Spread but still all in the low Trillions
California is inflated by Silicon Valley stuff. Maybe left-over Hollywood prestige, as well.
Japan isn't known for it's awesome economy, but it's surprising world city Tokyo is still doing worse than all of Canada including the backwaters.
California also offers an agricultural powerhouse of productivity, oceanfront tourism, and ongoing techbro circle jerks.
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I wonder if you take out fossil fuel and logging out of Canada’s GDP if it still would be higher than Tokyo’s. Not much logging and oil drilling going on in Tokyo I reckon.
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Doing Worse is subjective.
Higher GDP ≠ Doing Better.
The US has some of the highest GDP per capita on earth but that doesn’t mean it (or its economy, if you don’t define economy just as stock market go brrr) is doing well.
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Biggest question.
Who wins in a street fight.
I wanna give it to the Canadians on sheer variety but I think California might win that one.
ninjas?
Canadian ninjas or Californian ninjas?
Surf Ninjas!
1000% California. So Cal is mostly LA and NorCal is a bunch of granola outdoor survival types.
I mean, we have plenty of people living off the land in Canada too, and it's hard land.
If they're allowed bringing their guns, the Americans are going to win every time, of course.
Canadians tend to become creative when they are at war.
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80% of þe population of Canada lives South of Minneapolis, MN., USA.
My wife's family is from northern Minnesota. When we visit my in-laws we like to joke that they're two states north of Canada.
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there are too many people in Tokyo. like come on guys. there are other cities.
I doubt you've been or lived here if you think it's very dense for a large city. Frankly its extremely spread out. Most buildings are quite short or single family homes. Compared to the skyscrapers of Chinese cities, its a lot closer to American suburbs.
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So Tokyo has 1 moose, California has 100 moose, and Canada is overrun by moose. Got it!
Only moose I ever saw in California palled around with a squirrel and constantly had beef with a Russian couple when visiting Universal Studios.
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Does that mean Canada is looking for immigrants? A lot of us can help bring that number up.
The big map is misleading. The vast majority of us live within 100 miles of the US border.
Ed, it's a startling revelation.
Canada, getting ready to invade, has amassed 90% of its population along its border with the United States.
The longest unprotected border in the world, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to that other one.
That depends on whom you ask. 🤷 And how eager are you to live in a remote community?
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Canada is in desperate need of immigrants but simultaneously suffering some growing pains from fumbled immigration programs and policy it’s the old you won’t make everyone happy shenanigans
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tokyo firmly believes in stacking
You made Saddam too small.
And people wonder why Japan's population is shrinking. (Wait, is it shrinking or did it stop growing?) Disinterest in breeding may be an innate response to overpopulation. In any case, Tokyo's population is fucking crazy and decreasing the number of people voluntarily and peacefully is a GOOD thing.
COL in Japan in general is about as unhealthy as it is in California.
people are working themselves to death just to scrape by.
if governments want population growth, they have to siphon wealth away from their corporate overlords and nurture the working class.
Japan's population decline isn't really about cost of living so much as it is about poor quality of life/a stiflingly conservative culture. Terrible work/life balance, women still largely being expected to quit work when they have kids (and it being assumed that women will have kids, leading to discrimination in the workplace and limited career promotion opportunities), men still largely being expected to be salarymen who are forced to prioritize their company and social expectations at work above all else, etc.
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I doubt the fertility rate is much better in the scenic, middle-of-nowhere areas. People just don't want kids, and now there's the option to have sex without them.
Tokyo isn't having population decline, its the countryside.
Ironically, Tokyo has one of the lowest fertility rates in Japan. It's only still growing because it keeps drawing in basically all of the young people from the countryside.
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The more you think about it, the more insane it is, like... wow
Tokyo demands the sharpest elbows of the three.
Makes you wonder why housing prices in Canada are so ridiculously high then when they have so much free land space.
Considering we have like 9% of the world's entire forests, where would you like us yo build these houses?
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