Sunday, December 23, 2012

7 countries with the most population – global reading challenge



The 7 countries with the most population

The first task of the 7 Continents, 7 Billion People, 7 Books Reading challenge is to read a book from one of the 7 countries with the most population. According to the wiki list countries by population, the top 7 countries with the most population are:
  • China (1300 Million)
  • India (1200 Million)
  • USA (314 Million)
  • Indonesia (237 Million)
  • Brazil (193 Million)
  • Pakistan (181 Million)
  • Nigeria (166 Million)
Here are the relating country reading links, from Goodreads:
Goodreads / China  --  Goodreads / India  -- Goodreads / US best of  -- Goodreads / Indonesia  -- Goodreads / Brazil  - Goodreads / Pakistan --  Goodreads / Nigeria

For more book links, visit: Finding books by country: helpful links + resources


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Around the globe
For some virtual globe spinning, try this short world video that shows the 25 most populated countries and their location on the globe:



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A world in change - 2 global docus 

If you are interested, there is a fascinating documentation online, a report of a journey across 3 continents by a journalist who tries to chart the phenomenon of Chinese migration. The docu starts in Africa, moves to America, and to Asia. It inlcudes a lot of encounters with citizens and immigrants, and also shows city and road scenes from the countries. It's also up on youtube:
And here's another docu on the theme of population:

5 comments:

Blogger10 said...

This is SUCH a cool challenge. I'm already signed up for so many, I'm going to have to pass. But at least one of mine also involves books from other countries!

Audra said...

Oops -- I think I'm doing this wrong -- I wasn't reading in order. Just added one book for 'richest' -- Luxembourg (Chris Pavone's The Expats). Are you doing review linkups? I'll try to get back in order now!

Dorothee said...

hi Audra, no worries about the reading order. there will be some overlaps anyway with countries fitting 2 or more categories. i will gather the first round of link when i put the next global reading blog note for the "highest countries" together, and simply include all books read so far :)

Arenel said...

I wasn't very eccentric and read a book from USA, which was already planned for January anyway: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (http://irrelevant-scribble.blogspot.cz/2013/01/a-streetcar-named-desire-by-tennessee.html) Next categories will be more challenging =)

Michelle Stockard Miller said...

I started off the challenge on my home turf, the USA. I read Gone Girl by American novelist, Gillian Flynn. My review: http://thetruebookaddict.blogspot.com/2013/03/review-gone-girl-by-gillian-flynn.html

My next book for the highest countries in the world is going to be A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, set in India and written by an author who was born and lived in India until he was in his early 20s.