Sep
30
2008

Country codes of the World

A while ago I saw this beautiful map of country codes of the world:
cctlds scaled by population
There is however a big flaw in this map: it aims to be a map about the internet but the country codes (cctld) are scaled by population (offline) size.
Esther Weltevrede and I redid this map by querying Google for that cctld (for each cctld we did the following query: “site:.cctld” and noted the number of results returned). We then scaled the cctlds accordingly, thus answering the question “What is the size of countries’ assigned domains on the World’s Web, as Google.com estimates it has indexed?”:
cctlds scaled by google returns
Esther has embedded this in her research as part of the DMI course ‘the Webs’.

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