No, as mentioned before the Phillipines has a population of over 90 million.
If mythical people count, I’ve got dibs on Earth, named after a German pagan goddess.
No way. The Sol System, named after the Roman god Sol, has all the people on Earth plus the six currently in space.
I still don’t get why America isn’t the winner. The two continents are named after a real person.
Doh, how’d I miss the second post?
Well, if Bharat/Bharat Ganrajya (one of the official names of India) is allowed, it would beat all of the Americas in terms of population, with 1.2 billion people vs the Americas combined 935 million (if AWB’s figure is correct.)
I thought of the Solar System, but I kept thinking of my uncle Sol, who is a population of only 1.
Anyway, as far as we know, the population of the Solar System is exactly equal to the population of the Earth (unless you count astronauts in the ISS separately).
“A common affectation”? It was customary to translate names because it made communication easier (the same reason I translate mine: some people who have no problem pronouncing Mary think that Mari is MAH RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEE). I know many people who live in bilingual regions and respond to both versions of their name.
For cities, and leaving aside Saints and Madonnas (otherwise we get half the Latin American capitals as well as Los Angeles), the official name of the 5M-inhabitant Mexican city of Puebla is Puebla de Zaragoza. It’s not the name under it was founded: the Zaragoza bit is the lastname of a general who defended the city against French troops in 1862.
For all we know Seyfert’s Sextet has a population of quadrillions of intelligent beings.
If aliens are included, I nominate the Hubble Volume
I thought it was named after Eartha Kitt.
Interesting. It’s a city named for a person whose name (presumably) came from another city (Zaragoza, Spain), which in turn was named for yet another person (Caesar Augustus).