Populations

Belgium has also been used as a measure of population. But how many readers of Pacific News would know the population of Belgium?

“From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s it was widely held that deserts could be reclaimed through great water projects. Without such projects, California today would likely have a population the size of Belgium’s.”
http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.17/000825-is.html

“With 11 million people, Cuba is about the size of Belgium.”
http://www.ncpa.org/iss/int/2002/pd052202d.html

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