Interesting! This does sound very Japanese with the meticulous attention to detail.
We have like 40.67 million people just in our province.
Holy smokes! I thought you lived in a small quaint little island surrounded by coconuts 🌴
Ours are loose neighborhoods with exciting names like the West end, the East side, North Shore, South Granville...haha. Vancouver proper (downtown) where I live has 662,000 people. The general area of metro Vancouver is made up of connected cities like Burnaby, Port Coquitlam, Surrey, and so on. This Greater Vancouver area has 2.6 million people. The province of British Columbia, where the city of Vancouver is located, is huge geographically but only has 5 million people, so the province is mostly mountains, forests, and water. We still have ways to go to reach 40 million inhabitants. :D
I wish haha but yeah, considering the country is 4th most populous in the world, those are rookie numbers. We have a lot of people here and the declining birthrate might be a good thing tbh. I think it's gonna take a long time before you can reach 40 million and you don't want that either, it's pretty much crowded and extremely dense
Canada as a whole has 40 million people, so we're small fry in comparison. :)