Talk:List of country subdivisions by population

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Should we limit as to how many can be listed on here? - 68.23.33.147 02:11, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] An Edit for Vietnam

I've taken the liberty of cleaning up the entries for Vietnam. Someone seems to have done a copy-and-paste operation from World Gazeteer, and used the Regions of Vietnam without really thinking about it. The "Regions" seem to be an arbitrary grouping of provinces together for statistical purposes. I argue these are not true sub-national units at all. (Or are we going to include the United States federal judicial circuits as sub-national entities? Or even the "American South"? I think not.) So I've snipped the regions.

What I've done is replaced them by entries from the Provinces of Vietnam - to be exact, the two above 3 million in population. The Provinces are the sub-national government units used in this country. The idea of "provinces" predates unification (1975), everyone locally seems to know what they are, and provinces are used in snail mail addresses. They're all listed in the 2001 edition of the "Tập Bản Đồ Hành Chính Việt Nam" (Việt Nam Administrative Atlas)", while the "regions" are not.

Someone was worried as to how long this list could be. I think I will edit it to say "this is the list of sub-national entities above 3,000,000". It's a nice round number, and it corresponds with the cut-off. If anyone wants to drop it to 2,000,000, they'll have to do the hard work of finding the extra entities.

--Tphcm 04:27, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Formatting Errors

The page isnt processing all the formatting instructions properly - this seems to happen around the 141st entry - I assume there is a limit to how many it can handle . This has been the case since the formatting changes on 31st December 2006. I suggest we change the formatting soon.

Quite surprised noone else has done it since as there have been several changes since then.

Athosfolk 16:57, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

nbsp is making problems :|

maybe it should be cut back to the top 100? --Astrokey44 02:58, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table

I believe putting this list in a sortable table is much more interesting. I would also add population density and area in corresponding column. I'll proceed if no objections. --Kvasir (talk) 17:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I've just finished implementing the table and found some entries need updating. For example "Southern Tagalog" is a defunct region, and the Nigerian states' population are wrong. I'll add area and density to each one later. --Kvasir (talk) 23:23, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
I was just editing the lead and realised the data is 4 years old! When I have time i'll revisit the source and update the list. --Kvasir (talk) 16:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)